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online community. This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody how we doing we've got a brief and experimental episode for you today with an

interesting chap named John R Miles he's a former naval officer and corporate

titan who's made it his business to study what it means to find passion and purpose in your life.

He's the host of the Passion Struck Podcast where he interviews folks with whom our listeners may well

be quite familiar.

For example, Arthur Brooks, Katie Milkman,

Ethan Cross, Dr Mark Hyman, all former guests on this show.

John Miles is also the author of a new book out this month called Passion Struck, 12 Powerful Principles

to unlock your purpose and ignite your most intentional life. Okay, so here's how this thing is going to work.

We've got three bite-size clips for you to chew on today from John R Miles.

In the first clip, John has just finished telling me about a moment in his life when he thought he had reached the pinnacle of success high paying

job nice house nice cars a marriage kids and so on only to lose the job the wife and much more and then spiral into a deep depression. In this clip he

talks about a visualization technique that he learned that helped him to start

digging himself out and he explains how you might be able to apply it in your own life.

When I had reached that point of burnout and depression, I sought professional help and I went to go see a career coach who also was a psychologist and I remember

sitting down with Jay and at that point I had a number of fears about the future but I also

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