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Way Of The Peaceful Warrior Analysis

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Through the analysis of Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman, I got the sense that the book was not all true, even though I resonate with a large amount of the book. So, as I read I made a list of ideas that I believed were possible and a list of points that I doubted were possible or misleading. In the making of these lists I correspondingly pulled out my DSM-5 and diagnosed the author as having Schizoaffective Disorder, specifically Bipolar type. Let us start with (some) of the details that are on my list titled “Things I Believe are Possible within Way of the Peaceful Warrior”. Coincidence; that is something we have talked heaps about in class. An example of coincidence within the book is when Dan joins a meditation group a week …show more content…

Sure, it is fun to realize how well one can restrain themselves, but I do not think full restraint from desires is healthy. As stated before, if your desires or satisfaction in those desires is zero, then your happiness will be zero. I believe that sexual desires are one of the main human drives, and that not fulfilling those desires (either by yourself or with a partner or partners) is unnatural. Lastly, let us address my opinion that Dan Millman is mentally ill, based solely on his experiences within this novel. Foremost, I contemplate that Dan is manic most of the time, for the reason that he spends many nights at a gas station with Socrates (who we will get to later) instead of sleeping. Then, he is very distractible when it comes to his school work, but is extremely goal-directed when it comes to gymnastics and in his lessons at the gas station. Secondly, I believe that Dan is delusional, and is fantasizing his relationship with Socrates, who happens to just be an old man who works at a gas station. In addition, I reflect that the visions that Dan describes are hallucinations that he has when sitting in the gas station with the old man who he has feigned a relationship

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