{"product_id":"9781101152133","title":"How to Save Your Own Life: 15 Inspiring Lessons Including: Finding Blessings in Disguise, Coping with Life's Greatest Challanges, and Discovering Happiness at Any Age","description":"Michael Gill's lemons-to-lemonade memoir chronicled his transformative years working at Starbucks after losing his high-powered job, his marriage, and his health (he developed a brain tumor). In response to overwhelming requests from readers who wanted to know how they, too, could weather downturns, he has distilled his lessons into fifteen meaningful lessons, including: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ·\u003cb\u003eLeap...With Faith:\u003c\/b\u003e Sometimes it pays to leap without looking and say yes without thinking (Gill accepted the Starbucks job immediately, on a whim). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ·\u003cb\u003eLet Yourself...Be Helped:\u003c\/b\u003e Pride is even more paralyzing than fear. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ·\u003cb\u003eLook...with Respect at Every Individual You See:\u003c\/b\u003e Gill was raised to avoid eye contact with those who were different, cloistered in a privileged world. Now he realizes the potential in all who cross his daily path. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ·\u003cb\u003eLose...Your Watch (and Cell Phone and PDA!):\u003c\/b\u003e Our obsession with productivity produces madness, not gladness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Offering living proof that extraordinary happiness is found in ordinary moments, \u003ci\u003eHow to Save Your Own Life\u003c\/i\u003e provides empowering words and hope for anyone facing a reversal of fortune. True fortune, Gill discovered, lies not in fate but in discovering the innate capacity we all possess to rescue ourselves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWatch a Video\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple Publications International, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134005068016,"sku":"9781101152133","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101152133_p0.jpg?v=1763685267","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101152133","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}