{"product_id":"9781592406036","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":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e The author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eHow Starbucks Saved My Life\u003c\/i\u003e perks up America with inspiring lessons on finding true happiness at any age and any stage of life. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Gill's lemons-to-lemonade memoir chronicled his transformative year 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 wisdom into fifteen meaningful lessons, including: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e? Leap...With faith: Sometimes it pays to leap without looking and say \"yes\" without thinking (Gill accepted the Starbucks job immediately, on a whim). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e? Let . . .Yourself be Helped: pride is even more paralyzing than fear. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e? Lose . . .Your Watch (and Cell phone and PDA!): Our obsession with productivity produces madness, not gladness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062378119408,"sku":"9781592406036","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781592406036_p0.jpg?v=1763809315","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781592406036","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}