My mentor recommended that I read this book for self-enlightenment. After reading his first book, I began to read other books by the same author that continued in detail about the journeys Dan took to become the man he is today. I eventually found that Socrates, Dan’s teacher, has been in my life too. Socrates is all of life’s lessons and teachers. This book impressed me because it made me understand what “body wisdom” is and how to loose my mind and come to my senses. The most critical lesson this book teaches is how the most painful and traumatizing experience can be one

This book impressed me most of all because it shows me how to use pain and trauma to become a stronger person much like Dan did during the summer. He found himself buying a bike, and soon gets into an accident that almost turns fatal. He sees his gymnastics career ending and feels the intense sensation of pain sear through his leg. It was severed. But even thru pain, warrior finds peace. Pain can purify the mind and the body. As Dan lies in the hospital bed, Socrates emerges from the shadows, “This is your training. The pain can purify the mind and the

remember when you first learned to drive? Prior that time, you’d been a passenger; you only understood what it was. But you realized what it was like when you did it for the first time”(26). That phrase describes realization, however, Dan must learn to apply that in his life. Still confused, Socrates asks, “Where are you?” Dan replies, “Berkeley.” Socrates continues to ask where he is until Dan says on earth, in the solar system, and in the universe. Socrates asks again, “Where is that?”(28). With that final question, Dan says he doesn’t know, and Socrates points out to Dan that he is ignoran

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