Fire is a powerful thing, and I am not referring to the destructive capability of fire, but rather the ability of fire to give us unique insight on various things in life.
Oh gosh Marc, please don’t get all hippie on us.
… bare with me.
One of my roommates in college was HC Consulting Groups co-founder, Hollis Carter. Hollis and I would have bonfires nearly every night in college and during those fires we would mostly sit and stare at the fire figuring out what we intended to do and accomplish in life.
Fire is a bit like the original “mastermind” setting.
We decided that we would start a business together while looking in a fire. We came up with many of our product ideas and marketing strategies while looking and conversing around a fire. Big decisions have been made around a fire.
There is something special that occurs when you sit and look at a fire. It has been going on nearly since the beginning of time. Humans figured out how to manage fire and they sat around it (much in the same way that we sit around a fire to this day) and figured out that they could use it to protect themselves, warm themselves, cook their food, heat their beverages, and so on.
I believe it is quite safe to say that thousands of incredible ideas, inventions, and revelations have come from sitting around and looking at a fire.
We all believe that we see the world as it really is, but the reality of it is that we are aware only of a small amount of the total information that our eyes take in, and even less is processed by our conscious mind and remembered.
When we take the time to sit and stare into a fire, it inspires our minds to think on a different level that when we are surrounded by computers, cars, buildings, horns, telephones, and the bustle of everyday life in the 21st century. It takes us back and gives us the same feeling it gave our early ancestors who ran around avoiding danger and searching for food.
Our surroundings and situation has a great influence on our behavior. Fires helped spur on the formation of HC Consulting Group and continues to help us to this day.
Have a great weekend and go have a bonfire with a few good friends and come up with the next great invention.
Make moves today,
Marc Horne
HC Consulting Group
