John R. Miles's goal is to make passion go viral. He is a former combat veteran and multi-industry CEO turned entrepreneur and human performance expert. He founded Passion Struck to help the broken, beaten, and bored of the world regain their passion and unlock their hidden potential. Contact me at www.johnrmiles.com
The human-dog bond began 14,000 years ago in a gravel pit near Bonn, Germany. A seven-month-old puppy, milk teeth intact, was buried beside two humans, bones dusted with red ochre, antler tools tucked like heirlooms. This wasn’t disposal. It was the first human-dog bond: a pact sealed in ochre and eternity. Archaeologists call it the […]
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When Elias Weiss Friedman left his job in brand strategy during a New York layoff, he dusted off his camera, wandered the streets, and started asking strangers a question no one else was asking: Can I photograph your dog? That simple act became The Dogist, a storytelling movement with over 11 million followers and more
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We’re racing to make machines cry, laugh, and love, while millions of us forgot how to do it first. That’s the quiet emergency behind episode 687 of Passion Struck on What AI Can’t Teach, part of my new series The Irreplaceables: Rediscovering Human Worth in an Age of Acceleration. Everywhere we look, algorithms are simulating
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We live in a time when our attention has become the world’s most valuable currency — and the most stolen. In this week’s Passion Struck conversation, I sat down with Dr. Zelana Montminy, behavioral scientist and author of Finding Focus: Own Your Attention in an Age of Distraction, to uncover why our ability to pay
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A few weeks ago, while recording Episode 678 of Passion Struck on The Hidden Rules of Luck, I asked a question that stopped me mid-sentence and has stayed with me ever since: Whose story am I living? This profound inquiry has lingered in my thoughts ever since. For many of us, the response isn’t straightforward—we
The miles that make us who we are are rarely the easy ones. They are the miles that ask something of us: patience, presence, courage, or simply the willingness to take one more step when we are unsure we can. These miles shape identity in ways that time alone cannot. In this Passion Struck conversation,
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In every organization, there are two invisible forces shaping how people show up: fear and belonging. For decades, fear has driven how we lead, motivate, and measure success. But a quiet revolution is underway—one that replaces control with connection, and compliance with compassion. Few leaders embody this shift more fully than Claude Silver, Chief Heart
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In a world that constantly rewards compliance, learning how to stand firm may be one of the most radical acts of courage you can take. This week on the Passion Struck podcast, I speak with Dr. Sunita Sah, a physician, behavioral scientist, and Cornell professor whose research reveals why we comply, what stops us from
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What if luck isn’t random at all? Have you ever looked at someone’s success and thought, “They’re just lucky”? Behavioral economist Judd Kessler wants to change the way you think about luck. In his new book, Lucky By Design, he argues that what most people call luck is often the result of hidden systems, invisible
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Most of us are taught that confidence is power and that uncertainty is weakness. But what if the opposite is true? What if doubt is the signal that your brain is preparing to learn something new? In this episode of Passion Struck, host John R. Miles sits down with Dr. Bidhan “Bobby” L. Parmar, professor