Dan Millman Timeline and Summary

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Dan Millman Timeline and Summary

  • Dan is seemingly happy in college, but secretly fearing his own mortality.
  • Dan meets Socrates at the all-night gas station.
  • Dan struggles to pick between the conventional life at college and Socrates' way of life.
  • Dan trains under Socrates.
  • Dan leads his team to victory in the national collegiate championships for gymnastics.
  • Dan retires for happiness and continues training under Socrates.
  • Dan is sent away by Socrates to an ordinary life.
  • Dan works in sales, marries, and has a daughter, but feels his life to be mediocre.
  • Dan resumes his training and searches the world for answers.
  • Dan, divorced, sells all his belongings and goes into the mountains seeking truth.
  • Dan, with Socrates, has a final vision of his own death that convinces him to just be happy.
  • Dan marries Joy.