Dan Millman, a former world champion athlete and author, shares his incredible spiritual journey and insights. He discusses overcoming the fear of others' opinions and defines a purposeful life shaped through 75 years of experience. Millman emphasizes the balance between cultivating a peaceful heart and a warrior spirit, encouraging resilience against self-doubt. He highlights the importance of grounding oneself in the present and reshaping negative beliefs to enhance self-worth, ultimately guiding listeners toward a meaningful life.
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volunteer_activism ADVICE
Responding to Fear
Listen to your fear if it's physical, like a threat of injury.
If the fear is subjective, like embarrassment, act anyway.
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Overcoming the God of Opinion
Create a God of Opinion altar and symbolically worship it daily.
This helps detach from others' judgments by acknowledging and satirizing them.
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Control Your Behavior
Focus on behavior, which you can control, rather than thoughts and emotions, which are less controllable.
Accept thoughts and feelings, know your purpose, and act accordingly.
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Today’s guest is Dan Millman. He’s a former world champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor.
After an intensive, twenty-year spiritual quest, Dan’s teaching found its form as the Peaceful Warrior’s Way. He’s written eighteen books, including the best-seller Way of the Peaceful Warrior, which had a big impact on my life years ago. He’s back with a memoir called Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit: The True Story of My Spiritual Quest which is all about Dan’s search for meaning in the modern world. That’s something I believe each and everyone of us can relate to.
In this episode we discuss the interesting approach to overcoming the fear of other people’s opinions, how Dan’s definition of a purposeful life has become clearer over 75 years and what gets in the way of most of living meaningful life, how to reshape your negative beliefs and build up your self worth, how to develop what Dan calls a peaceful heart and a warrior spirit and so much more!
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