The Fire Trilogy · Book OneA book by Enrique Gonzalez Novello
Every man knows where his fire is.
He may not call it that. He calls it the thing he does not think about, the conversation he does not have, the room in his own house he does not walk into. He has built a life around not going there — sometimes a good life, sometimes an impressive one — and the building costs him more every year, because a life built around a fire is a life that bends.
You are not broken. You are untrained.
The rest of this book is the training.
The dragon you fear is the gate to your power.
Who this is for
This book is for the man who is done running. Not the man who has stopped being afraid — that man does not exist — but the man who has decided that what the fire does to him from a distance is worse than anything it could do to him up close.
The problem
Most of the men I have met run from their fire. Not in a panic — panic would at least be honest. They run slowly and respectably. They stay busy. They stay useful. They get very good at the parts of life that ask nothing of the part that is burning. From a distance it looks like discipline. Up close it is a man organizing his whole existence around a door he will not open.
Maybe I am the kind of man who knows what to do and cannot do it. Maybe the gap between who I want to be and who I am is who I actually am.
This is the suspicion that runs every man eventually. It is also a lie.
The author
For more than twenty years I've been the advisor Fortune 1000 executives, professional athletes, and performing artists call when the capable part of their life is working and the avoided part is running it. This book is the training I built by walking into my own fire first.
The training
The work runs through six gates, and each gate asks one thing of you.
Trigger
Name the truth you can no longer unsee.
Choice
Choose your direction, and name its cost out loud.
Friction
Install the response that holds when the old pattern fires.
Order
Build the code you can keep on your worst week, not your best.
Integration
Become one man in every room.
Power
Steward what you built. And begin.
Each gate ends in a sentence you write and sign. Six signed Lines become one private Constitution — yours, in your own hand.
You don't finish this book. You sign it.
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What stands behind it
Twenty-plus years advising Fortune 1000 executives, professional athletes, and performing artists. The first volume of the Fire Trilogy. The stories in this book are based on real work. Identities and details are protected where appropriate.
The dragon you fear is the gate to your power.
You will not need to be ready. You will need to be willing.