This is a 15 minutes of freedom. I'm your host Ryan Nidell and today's episode is a book review of the Way of the Peaceful Warrior.

So in today's episode, as I do so often, I'm going to review the book that I read this past week and

admittedly the way the Peaceful Warrior is one of the most impactful books I

believe you will ever read so I want to make sure I explain why that is. So the way the peaceful

worries is a little bit different of a read for me. I typically read, you know,

mindset books or business books or things like that never do I gravitate towards a quote-unquote fictional book

You know just doesn't make sense to me it that's it's not what I'm However, I saw at some point someone post about this book online.

I'm going to guess it was Tommy Baker or Brandon James Duncan or somebody that I follow that I'm connected

with or part of Wake Up Warrior or their own coaching group.

Somebody took a screenshot on Instagram and posted this particular book.

The Way The Peaceful Warrior is a book by a guy named Dan Millman.

And the book takes place in the early 1960s and it processes through the story of Dan Millman actually the writer of the book

who is going to college his incredibly accomplished inside the sport of gymnastics

and is looking to expand

his mindset and his ability outside the scope of just gymnastics. Now it doesn't sound too sexy, I'm sure, right?

I mean, what fun is it to read a book in my opinion about gymnastics and someone's

trials and tribulations?

Where the book ends up taking a pretty significant, I'll call it right turn, almost immediately

out of the gate.

This book ends up getting into this incredibly philosophical journey of Dan, who begins going to this gas station late at night.

He's up one night, he can't sleep, he goes for a walk, and almost through you know the power of connection the power of

osmosis whatever you want to call it Dan walks past this gas station by

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