In this episode of Journey to Purpose, Pippa is joined by Mikael Avatar — Paralympic long jump world record holder, life coach with over 20,000 hours, cerebral palsy researcher, painter, poet, film-maker, and founder of the Avatar Resurrection app. Mikael was born clinically dead for up to 45 minutes. He grew up in Sweden in a household so full of people from across the world that nobody had time to teach him how to have cerebral palsy — so he didn't. He broke his first world record in Nottingham in 1991, his second in front of 98,000 people in Atlanta in 1996. Then he felt completely empty. What came next — painting a hundred canvases, moving to Thailand to escape chronic pain, building a coaching method from 40 years of handwritten notes, and launching a free app designed to rebuild joy 30 seconds at a time — is the real story. Pippa and Mikael explore: - Being left with the dead children at the hospital — and the nurse who noticed he was breathing - Why growing up without anyone treating him as disabled was the greatest gift he never asked for - Breaking a Paralympic world record in front of 98,000 people and feeling nothing but empty - The difference between motivation and passion — and why finding the right angle changes everything - Why 5,000 hours of anything gives you a skill that can make you money, and what happens at 15,000 - Painting 100 canvases as a framework for testing whether you actually love something - Moving from Sweden to Thailand three months after discovering the humidity cured his chronic pain - The Avatar Resurrection app: 180 days of golden pauses, starting with 30 seconds A conversation about what it actually means to be alive — from someone who spent 45 minutes deciding whether to bother. Connect with Mikael Avatar: michaelavatar.com (free app and second book available there)