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What Do You Actually Want with Fire and the first human technology?

Explore what fire reveals about your deepest desires. Discover ancient wisdom to examine your true wants and transform how you live and work.

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What you’ll practice

This is a reflective practice guided by Laozi. It gives you one honest question to sit with — the kind that moves you from thinking about an idea to working with it.

The reflection itself unfolds in conversation with Laozi, where it adapts to your situation — so you practice it together rather than reading it off the page.

Practice this with Laozi
Begin the reflection in a coaching conversation, where it meets what you’re actually working through.
Understand first
Wu Wei in Fire MakingMaterial Literacy and Deep KnowingFailure, Feedback, and Iterative MasteryThe Paradox of Control and SurrenderThe Time of Tending
Go deeper
What Is Fire and the first human technology?Why Fire and the first human technology MattersFire and the first human technology: Start HereFire and the first human technology: What Nobody Tells YouFire and the first human technology: Questions Worth Asking
Peri
New to this practice?

Peri can explain what this practice is for, help you decide whether it fits what you’re working through, and point you to the right place to begin.

Ready to practice this?

Begin the reflection with your coach, or tell Peri what you’re working through.