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Daniel Jay Millman born February 22, is an American author and lecturer in the personal development field. He is best known for the movie Peaceful Warrior , based on his own life and taken from one of his books. Much of his early life included active pursuits like modern dance and martial arts and later trampoline , tumbling , and gymnastics.

In he won the USGF championship in the floor exercise and vault.

Daniel Jay Millman (born February 22, ) is an American author and lecturer in the personal development field.

He represented the United States in the Maccabiah Games , winning four gold medals in gymnastics. In September , just before his senior year at the University of California, Berkeley , Millman's motorcycle collided with a car. He suffered a shattered right femur, requiring surgical repair and a bone marrow transplant with a steel nail inserted in his femur which was removed a year later after the leg was healed.

He actively pursued rehabilitation and was able to return to gymnastics as co-captain of his team which won the NCAA Gymnastics Championships in Tucson, Arizona.

Joy reemerges as Joyce, “a student, a sweet young woman” (), whom Dan meets upon returning from his world travels.

He was the last male athlete to perform for the college on the high bar; he had his best-ever routine and perfect landing which clinched the team title. In , Millman served as director of gymnastics at Stanford University , where he coached U. Olympian Steve Hug and brought the Stanford team to national prominence. In , at the invitation of Jack Scott , a sports activist, Millman joined a program of athletic reform at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio as an assistant professor of physical education.

Next he traveled to Hawaii , India , Hong Kong , and Japan ; he studied various disciplines including yoga and martial arts in Japan. In , Millman began to produce audio and video programs. He also started presenting seminars and professional keynotes.