{"product_id":"9781101608890","title":"Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eRediscover—or discover for the first time—the things that make you passionate in life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVital Signs\u003c\/i\u003e is about what inspires passion and what defeats it. How we lose it and how we get it back. And ultimately it’s about the endless yet endlessly fruitful tug-of-war between freedom and domestication, the wild in us and the tame, our natural selves and our conditioned selves. Each chapter in \u003ci\u003eVital Signs\u003c\/i\u003e will contain a core sample, an intimate biography of one of the strategies we employ to gain or regain our passion. The book also affirms the importance of courageous inquiry into \u003ci\u003edis\u003c\/i\u003epassion—where we’re numb, depressed, stuck, bored—so the reader can recognize and change these tendencies in themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Temple Publications International, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116420907248,"sku":"9781101608890","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101608890_p0.jpg?v=1763688686","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101608890","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}