{"product_id":"2940172441653","title":"Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion","description":"Discover-or rediscover-your passion for life. \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  What inspires passion in your life? And what defeats it? How do you lose it and how do you get it back? In this exuberant and compelling book, Gregg Levoy, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eCallings\u003c\/i\u003e, explores how you can cultivate not just a specific passion, but passion as a mindset---a stance---that helps bring vitality to all your engagements, from work and relationships to creativity and spiritual life.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eVital Signs\u003c\/i\u003e examines the endless, yet endlessly fruitful, tug-of-war between passion and security in our lives, the wild in us and the tame, our natural selves and our conditioned selves, and shows us how to stay engaged with the world and resist the downward-pulling forces that can drain our aliveness.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVital Signs\u003c\/i\u003e also encourages courageous inquiry into our dis-passion---where we're numb, depressed, stuck and bored in our lives---so that we can rework these tendencies in ourselves and claim our rightful inheritance of vitality.  \u003cbr\u003e What you'll learn:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePassion can be cultivated. Turned on as well as turned off. And this happens most readily at the level of the gesture and the moment, not the five-year plan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePassion is in the risk. In the willingness to step from the sidelines onto the playing field.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePassion breeds passion and disinterest breeds disinterest. If you lack passion in your life, your other relationships---your partnerships, friendships, communities, classrooms, corporations and congregations---will be denied that energy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePassion is more than exuberance; it's endurance. It's sometimes shoulder-to-the-wheel stamina and patience on the order of years. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePassion is intimately related to health. To the degree that passion is vitality, honoring your passions enhances your vitality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e  Drawing from centuries of history, art, science, psychology and philosophy, as well as in-depth interviews with people who rediscovered and reignited passion in their own lives, \u003ci\u003eVital Signs\u003c\/i\u003e offers an expansive menu of possibilities for how to claim and reclaim your passion, and will help you maintain a keen awareness of where the pulse is and a determination to plug into that place. \u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Instructional Systems [Aubrey J. Kline (aka Jim Kline dba Instructional Systems)]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123615219952,"sku":"2940172441653","price":34.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940172441653_p0.jpg?v=1763836370","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940172441653","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}