The Warrior Within

The Philosophies of Bruce Lee to Better Understand the World around You and Achieve a Rewarding Life

By: John Little

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's Summary

During his lifetime, legendary martial artist Bruce Lee formulated a complex personal philosophy - a synthesis of Eastern and Western ideals - that extolled the virtues of knowledge and total mastery of one's self. Most of his philosophical writings could be found only within the personal library of the Bruce Lee estate - until John Little was given permission to publish them for the wider world. The Warrior Within is the most comprehensive volume of these teachings, meant to help you apply Lee's philosophies to your own life. This unique guide reveals such life-affirming secrets as how to:

• See the totality of life and put things into perspective,
• Understand the concept of Yin and Yang,
• Defeat adversity by adapting to circumstances, and
• Tap into inner spiritual forces to help shape the future.

The Warrior Within is an engrossing and easy-to-understand guide to the little-explored world of Bruce Lee.

©1996 John Little (P)2014 Blackstone Audio

Narrator Blows the Entire Book (honest opinion)

The teachings and philosophies of this legendary man, Bruce Lee, are intrinsically down to earth! One of my few heroes for sure.

I simply can not give this book 5 stars, or even 4 stars, in fact the only reason why I gave it 3 is because I know the material is good.
But, I just can't get over the way the narrator narrates the book! It's as if he speaks in a way that completely makes you day dream, and you have to constantly fight for your attention of the book (maybe in some weird way that's what they wanted?). It is just so un-engaging that it bothers me such a great man's philosophies was read by this guy. The only part I enjoyed is he changes his voice to "sound" like Bruce Lee. Other than that, different narrator and it'd be a 5 star.

Fake Chinese accent during quoting Bruce Lee

I don't understand why the narrator would use a fake Chinese accent when he quoted Bruce Lee it would have been better for him to speak in his natural language it became so annoying and so difficult to even understand what he was saying that I could no longer finished the book and returned it. using a fake accent may be appropriate for a fictional book but not for this one. Boo...

MUST READ

this is a must read for understanding. one's self. You will come to see that by knowing and bettering yourself, you in turn make your environment better.

Amazing journey.

I have another outlook on life because of this book. This book is truly powerful.

Enter the mind of Bruce Lee

This is a must for any martial artist or Bruce Lee fan alike. The reader does a fantastic job of imitating Bruce Lee's voice.

Great book, terrible performance

Why with the fake Chinese accent?!? Makes no sense, caught me off guard and made it borderline unbearable to listen to. Cringed every time.

Fantastic book, just terrible performance.

Always Love Bruce

Thank you for what you gave the world to build on . Always adapting. Peace.

Great book. Loved the philosophy described.

Loved the philosophy described here. Very relevant in todays day and age. Jeet Kune Do is a way of life.

The Warrior Within

Great book with lots of insight and inspirational thoughts from Bruce Lee. It was read well and he did a good job on Bruce's "voice".

Official RBG FIT CLUB website selection

Inspiring and practical.
Well researched and great reading.
Jeet Kune Do explained philosophically.
Brilliant story of a brilliant being. Grateful.

If You've Never Heard of Bruce Lee I guess Its OK

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

The first thing I feel compelled to mention is that the narration could have been less grating if without the very annoying and poor quality Bruce Lee 'impression' or 'accent' but worse than this is the repetition of 'according to lee' and similar precursors to a 'Lee thought'.

However that was less painful than the assumption that the author (John Little) seems to me to write like he is the only person, other than Lee that has any idea or experience of (Chinese?) philosophy and an understanding of yin/yang etc. I personally found the general style of writings around the Bruce Lee quotes condescending and arrogant. I understand the reasoning and what John was trying to do and I may be a tad harsh as I have been a Bruce Lee fan for more than 30 years. But having absorbed what is useful (to me) about Lee's life, story and outlook I found this basic and without thought to target audience, which it would seem are people at least familiar with Bruce Lee the man, the myth.

Generally if you have NOT read Tao of JKD or any other works about Bruce then I guess this would perhaps be of inspiration and use in this work, however if you have been exposed to any of Bruce's philosophy/thoughts and/or video snippets then there is absolutely nothing new here and there is a lot of repetition.

If you’ve listened to books by John Little before, how does this one compare?

I've not listened to John's books on Audible before, but I have read most of them and they on the whole seemed better presented and though out.

How could the performance have been better?

No poor impressions of Bruce Lee - They were not required and diminished the narration and my experience.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Warrior Within?

Anything that wasn't a quote from Lee himself.

Any additional comments?

Buy the Tao of Jeet Kune Do and just read that instead.

really good. you get the repeated point eventually

you get the point quickly. repeated concept. but said in different ways in an engaging way

Interesting and recommended read

Very good, some chapters quite abstract and there is some repetition. Philosophies worthwhile giving thought.

The best brain food

spectacular audio. I found myself listening to this I'm one complete cycle the listening again as though I didn't hear it before. extremely enriching for the mind and soul

Enjoyed it so much that I've ordered a hard copy!

An excellent testament to the avant-garde philosophy of not only an exceptional fighter but one whose mindset transcends his yet unmatched physical prowess. Told through the eyes of John Little, a diligent enquirer commissioned to share the erudite volumes of Bruce Lee with the masses and the multitudes. I Enjoyed it so much that I've ordered a hard copy and I'll most definitely be reading the remainder of the books that have been authorized by the Bruce Lee Estate.

Awesome

Just what I needed, loved this book from stat to finish, very well narrated, top marks

Great insights

Nicely packaged insights. Gave a good overview of the Bruce Lee story and made for easy listening.

fairly average

Could of been better told especially such a legend as Bruce Lee. Would definitely not recommend

Great book

Great book, well narrated with some excellent messages for life and well being living. Well recommended

Rules for life

An insightful listen to give you the mindset and discipline to face and overcome challenges in your work and personal life.