Dan Millman

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I think of, uh, Dan Millman.

He basically did, did the work to get rid of his ego, and once he was able to get rid of his ego, he was l- able to live in the moment.

And when he was able to live in the moment, he was able to f-fulfill one of his dreams of winning the gold at the Olympics.

Then I said, "Well, I really like John Maxwell, and I like Andy Andrews, and I like Robin Sharma.

Um, can you mix in their words?" And then I like Dan Millman, and I like Joel Osteen, you know, and I, I just kept...

Jordan Peterson.

I kept adding authors, and all of a sudden I realized, you know, the way I think is really a blend of 10 magnificent authors.

You know, I was working, my friends are playing, and, um, and so I said, "I wanna be like him when I grow up." And, uh, so I got very interested in, um, m- biology, human performance.

I read a book, um, called The Inner Athlete, uh, by Dan Millman.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

They would teach the Buddhists who were in the kitchen to be able to take a plate and to just, in the washing of the plate and in the drying of the plate and putting it down, working in the kitchen, that if you're in a state of mindfulness, that you can find your connection to God, you can find enlightenment, you can find complete peace, just total serenity in just this simple act of washing a dish and so on.

So that the line from The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, I don't know if you've read Dan Millman's wonderful book.

No. Oh, you must read that.

Yeah, try to find it.

It's like just letting go, just letting go and letting God direct your life.

And it's about service.

And it's about the other thing that Dan Millman wrote about in The Way of the Peaceful Warrior.

It's about recognizing that there are no ordinary moments.

Have you ever read that book? I know of it.

Yeah, it's a great book by Dan Millman, and he talks about this, the idea of the warrior.

I like what you said because it's not really about creating fear in people because a lot of times on this show and a lot of other shows, too, you start learning about it.

If you really get into the science of everything that's going on, and then you start looking at all of the – crazy conspiratorial stuff that's happening that with the medical industry and every other industry, you can go down a dark, dark path, you know, and you can start really looking into things.

it's hard to explain but it is there is a fight but we fight it differently than classical terms it's not like a classical war it's a different kind of fight but still nevertheless there is a there is a war going on

a hundred percent i mean you know i'm not gonna deny that because i feel like on one level i've been attacked my entire life i've been under attack you know and so that's again where a lot of spiritual spirituality that is more passive is like you know will I've heard the term from like, if you know, Dan Millman's peaceful warrior, I've heard that term.

There's a movie also as well with Nick Nolte.

It's, it's cool.

And this is a wonderful book for anyone who is trying to really change your life.

Or it could be the movie, you could watch the movie as well, where Dan Millman was at the bar with his mentor, Socrates.

Basically, Socrates and him were literally drinking and having a cigar.

And Dan was like, Socrates, I don't think we're supposed to be doing this, right? Like, we know better, he said.

He could be dictatorial in implementing them, often threatening to get anyone who stood in his way.

Dan Millman, a former Cal gymnast and world champion, who Scott recruited to coach at Oberlin, would later tell the FBI that Jack was brutal in his treatment of quote-unquote older establishment types and would often become so angry that he would clench his fist and tremble with rage.

In one case, he allegedly assaulted a teenager.

Even Fuller, the president who championed his hiring, admitted to agents that Scott was difficult, possibly even dangerous.