John R. Miles

For me, the real gift has been watching your messages come in.

You told me about the conversations you finally had, the habits you quietly released, the risks you took, the moments you chose yourself again.

Those revelations were lived together these past weeks.

The quiet choices, the small acts of courage, the moments we reclaimed our own light, they've added up to something unmistakable.

You, a clearer, braver, more intentional you."

And now, as we stand here on January 2nd, the question that's been pressing on me is this.

How do we protect that clearer, braver you in a world that's constantly pulling us outward into noise, comparison, and a crowd of 8 billion?

That's exactly what we're going to explore today.

Thank you for choosing PassionStruck and choosing me to be your host and guide on your journey to creating an intentional life.

Now, let that journey begin.

So here's the reset I've been living and the one that's going to define my 2026.

I call it the Dunbar reset.

In the 1990s, a British anthropologist named Robin Dunbar noticed something fascinating.

He saw a clear pattern across primate species.

The larger the neocortex, the part of the brain that handles complex social thinking, the larger the typical group size.

When he ran the numbers for humans, he landed on a number that's haunted me ever since.

150.

That's it.

150 is your biological ceiling.

The maximum number of stable, meaningful relationships your neocortex has.