there’s this powerful anecdote about how a firefighter once saved his crew when they stepped into a burning house, and something felt off to him, and he said “we need to get out NOW!”, and the whole house collapsed… turned out the fire was way bigger in the basement
usually this story is told in the context of, the power of intuition. the man sensed that the fire was “off”. later he figured out that it’s because it was abnormally hot, abnormally quiet given the heat, and the fire just wasn’t responding to the water as it normally would
but today I’m thinking about it from the fire’s perspective
from the outside, all burning houses kinda look the same, at least to casual observers
but on the inside, a basement fire is much more powerful, much more dangerous
from the outside, all burning houses kinda look the same, at least to casual observers
but on the inside, a basement fire is much more powerful, much more dangerous
and I’m transposing this into the domain of the subconscious. This is almost cheesy in how on-the-nose it is but it works. The subconscious is often described as subterranean
by “basement fire” I’m talking about deep motivation. Camus’s invincible summer
by “basement fire” I’m talking about deep motivation. Camus’s invincible summer
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1139131983236173829?s=21
thing is, when you look around, it’s not immediately obvious from people’s utterances who has “basement fire drive” and who doesn’t. I’ll tell you that I’m passionate, but so can some random guy who’s lying about it. You can’t tell from utterances alone
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