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Gregg Levoy is the author of Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion (Penguin) and Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life (Random House).
Follow him at www.gregglevoy.com
As a fulltime lecturer and seminar-leader in the business, educational and human-potential arenas, Gregg has keynoted and presented workshops at the Smithsonian Institution, the National League of Cities, Microsoft, BP Amoco, American Express, Ascension Health, the Universities of California, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Texas and others, Esalen Institute, Omega Institute, and others, and has been a frequent guest of the media, including ABC-TV, CNN, NPR and PBS.
A former adjunct professor of journalism at the University of New Mexico, former columnist and reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer and USA Today, and author of This Business of Writing (Writer's Digest Books), he has written about the subject of callings for the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Omni, Psychology Today, Reader's Digest, and others, as well as for corporate, promotional and television projects.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 30, 2014 5 Keys to a Passionate Life
Passion is a concept that's talked about a lot these days. Business and leadership experts talk about employee engagement. Coaching and career development folks talk about finding a calling. Educators talks about passion-based learning. And couples talk about keeping the spark alive.
But passion is much bigger and deeper than what happens M-F 9-5, or what happens between partners.
Ultimately, passion is a life skill---
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, March 23, 2007 Callings: Finding and Following An Authentic Life
Some years ago, along a country road outside of Fresno, California on a windy spring day, a part of the invisible world was made, for a brief moment, visible to me.
I saw, in the light lancing through a row of trees, great streams of yellow pollen sweeping by on the wind, every speck filled with information--- blueprints for making perfect blue flowers, the dark musculature of trees, meadow grasses.
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