Ego is the only requirement to destroy any relationship. Peaceful warrior, a movie about a man overcoming his ego directed by Victor Salva, teaches a great lesson about how an ego can hurt someone. Letting go of an ego is hard, but some have defeated their ego and let it go like Dan Millman. Dan Millman Learns a hard lesson about his ego. “Life has three rules paradox, humor, change.” Dan says. Change was something Dan needed. Dan changed the way he looked at life, refusing to sleep with girls and letting go of alcohol. He even started working with Socrates, a man of wisdom of the mind and making a change from your bad ways. Even though Dan was learning about his ego he didn’t understand and got frustrated. He yelled at Socrates thinking he wasn’t helping prepare Dan’s mind for the Olympics and went back to his old ways, drinking and sleeping with girls. Dan’s ego got the best of him. Dan later shatters his leg by a …show more content…
Walking around school Dan see his teammates running and warming up for practice. He begins to regret letting his ego take over him. That following night Dan had a dream about standing on a ledge. And standing with him is his ego. His ego starts to play around and do backflips on the ledge nearly falling. His ego pulls him of the edge but Dan refuses. As Dan Fights his ego he lets his ego fall to meet it’s end. The next day Dan goes Back to Socrates and apologize for his ignorance and starts to work with Socrates. As Dan goes to a bar to drink with Socrates later on they go to the alley and meet three thugs. They rob them for their cloths and Dan’s watch and Socrates allowed it when he know that he could beat them up teaching Dan that not everything has to do with violence. Later that night Socrates led Dan to a homemade set of still rings. Dan felt like he couldn’t do it because his leg but Socrates tell him “A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he