The Tao of Steve

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The Tao of Steve is a 2000 romantic comedy film starring Donal Logue as Dex, an underachieving, overweight, kindergarten teacher who meets a woman at his ten-year college reunion. Dex and his buddies seem to spend their copious amounts of free time engaged variously in drinking, playing disc golf, and smoking marijuana. Dex, who was a legend in his college days, but is now an unlikely seducer, employs the Tao to succeed in his sexual activities with women.

[edit] What is the Tao?

Dex christened the Tao after the detached cool exhibited by three Steves of the world, Steve McQueen, Steve Austin from The Six Million Dollar Man, and Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-0 (played by Jack Lord).

The Tao itself the distilled philosophy that Dex employs, very winningly, to succeed sexually with women. It consists of three rules:

1. Eliminate your desires.
2. Do something excellent in her presence, thereby proving your sexual worthiness.
3. Retreat, for as Heidegger said, "We pursue that which retreats from us".

Or, as the character Dave put it:

1. Be desireless
2. Be excellent
3. Be gone

[edit] External links

• The Tao of Steve at the Internet Movie Database