VITAL SIGNS

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 Gregg Levoy's Vital Signs contains 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 our dispassion—where we’re numb, depressed, stuck, bored—so readers can recognize and change these tendencies in themselves.

Vital Signs is the map to a life filled with wondrous, satisfying experiences and the fulfillment of your soul’s journey.

Gregg Levoy has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Omni, Psychology Today, American Health, Reader’s Digest, New Age Journal, and many other publications—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 first-place writing award from the Associated Press and a Genesis Award for Outstanding Newspaper Commentary for a New York Times Magazine essay.