Vital Signs: Discovering and Sustaining Your Passion for Life

Rediscover--or discover for the first time--the things that make you passionate in life

Vital Signs 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 Vital Signs 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 dispassion--where we're numb, depressed, stuck, bored--so the reader can recognize and change these tendencies in themselves.

Author: Gregg Levoy
Publisher: Tarcher
Published: 12/29/2015
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780399174988

About the Author
Gregg Levoy is the author of Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life and This Business of Writing. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Omni, Psychology Today, American Health, Reader's Digest, New Age Journal, and many others--as well as for corporate, promotional, and television projects.

A former adjunct professor of journalism at the University of New Mexico, and former columnist and reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer and USA Today, he is the recipient of a 1st-Place writing award from the Associated Press, and a Genesis Award for "Outstanding Newspaper Commentary" for a New York Times Magazine essay.

He has been a visiting faculty member at the University of California, the University of Nevada, the University of Arizona, and Portland State University, as well as a faculty member at many national writers' conferences, including SouthWest Writers Conference, California Writers Club Conference, Reader's Digest Conference, Haystack Program in the Arts, Taos Institute of Arts, Austin Writers League, Wyoming Writers Conference, and Willamette Writers Conference.