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<p><b>Passion Struck® is a show focused on exploring the mindset of philosophy </b></p>
24 episodes featuring Passion Struck
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Peter Gray argues childhood needs freedom, not optimization
The episode examines how intensive parenting, academic pressure, and reduced autonomy may weaken children’s agency, meaning, and mental health.
Sep 29, 2026 · 1h 19m
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Miles argues meaning grows through feeling and play
The episode examines why external achievement can coexist with feeling unseen, and how emotional awareness and exploration may restore meaning and agency.
Sep 25, 2026 · 25 min
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Hard questions turn conversation into courage
The episode argues that questions about meaning, identity, and relationships can create agency and connection, but cannot be meaningfully outsourced to technology.
Sep 24, 2026 · 60 min
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Smart investors still fall for the same human biases
The episode shows why expertise and abundant data cannot replace skepticism about stories, consensus, and the information markets overlook.
Sep 22, 2026 · 1h 4m
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Why self-trust may have to precede proof
The episode examines how waiting for recognition or reassurance can keep people from accepting their worth, capability, and readiness.
Sep 18, 2026 · 24 min
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Achievement cannot manufacture a sense of worth
The conversation examines how early experiences, suppressed emotions, and social stigma can make success feel incapable of proving belonging or acceptance.
Sep 17, 2026 · 56 min
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Cole Brauer turns isolation into a test of self-trust
Cole Brauer’s circumnavigation shows how preparation, purpose, and a relationship with her boat can make extreme uncertainty navigable.
Sep 15, 2026 · 1h 9m
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Constraints can unlock agency and creativity
The episode reframes adaptability as the ability to act meaningfully within limits rather than waiting for unrestricted freedom.
Sep 11, 2026 · 23 min
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
David Epstein argues constraints make progress possible
The conversation reframes limits as practical tools for creativity, better problem-solving, focused attention, and meaningful change.
Sep 10, 2026 · 1h 1m
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Seligman argues agency drives human progress
The conversation tests how people can preserve freedom, meaning, and resilience while collective systems and AI reshape everyday life.
Sep 8, 2026 · 1h 7m
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
John Miles examines why success can still feel insignificant
The episode frames disconnection and helplessness as problems of meaning and agency, while asking whether change must begin within a person or in their environment.
Sep 4, 2026 · 24 min
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Jared Diamond argues leaders matter when circumstances meet ability
The episode tests whether history turns on indispensable individuals or on opportunities that many capable successors could have seized.
Sep 3, 2026 · 1h 14m
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Duckworth argues environments shape who we become
The conversation reframes personal change as a shared responsibility: growth depends not only on grit, but on the people, places, and cultures surrounding us.
Sep 1, 2026 · 55 min
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Caleb Campbell challenges achievement’s grip on identity
The conversation examines how ambition can secure external success while leaving personal worth dependent on performance and approval.
Aug 28, 2026 · 1h 9m
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Research reframes midlife as a period of growth and control
The episode challenges decline-focused ideas about aging and shows how health, relationships, purpose, and contribution can shape later life.
Aug 27, 2026 · 57 min
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Behavioral economist links unchosen risks to workplace meaning
The conversation connects regret in love and personal growth with a broader question: whether modern institutions leave enough room for people to be treated as human beings.
Aug 25, 2026 · 54 min
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Josh Duhamel trades celebrity validation for a life built by hand
The conversation examines how family, place, practical work, and personalized health care can reshape success beyond achievement and public approval.
Aug 21, 2026 · 52 min
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Daily choices shape the brain decades before decline appears
The conversation reframes cognitive decline as a process influenced long before symptoms, while highlighting the limits of prescription-centered medical care.
Aug 20, 2026 · 1h 2m
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Why insight fails to become meaningful change
The conversation examines why self-awareness and self-help knowledge can preserve old identities instead of changing the behavior, systems, and relationships shaping a life.
Aug 18, 2026 · 54 min
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Social approval quietly shapes belief and behavior
The episode shows how belonging can make group norms more powerful than personal values, while meaningful change demands tolerating identity loss and discomfort.
Aug 14, 2026 · 24 min
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Neal Schore argues attention—not hours—determines how time feels
The episode reframes time management as emotional self-management, showing how reactivity, rumination, and overcommitment divert attention from meaningful priorities.
Aug 13, 2026 · 1h 2m
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Why identity defeats facts—and what rebuilds openness
The episode shows why polarization persists beyond evidence and identifies the social conditions that can restore trust, humility, and connection.
Aug 11, 2026 · 1h 2m
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Neuroplasticity challenges the belief that people stay stuck
The episode reframes personal change as an ongoing brain process while linking individual growth to resilience and social trust.
Aug 7, 2026 · 21 min
Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Neuroscience reframes flourishing as a trainable human capacity
The conversation connects brain research and contemplative practice to a practical account of how people can recover, adapt, and flourish after adversity.
Aug 6, 2026 · 46 min