Dan Millman Timeline and Summary
MoreDan 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.