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Why I’m Starting A Podcast About Beer
Why wouldn’t I?
A good old friend of mine called Chris had a philosophical breakthrough a few years back. He noticed he was always saying ‘No’ to stuff or subconsciously finding negatives.
He was becoming cynical and questioning why he’d want to do the things people were offering him the chance to do.
He decided to flip the negativity on its head.
Instead of asking — in a dismissive way — “Why would I do that?”… he started saying — in a positive way — “Why wouldn’t I do it?”
It meant he went from presuming things would be a bad idea… to presuming they would be a good idea.
For example, he used this approach when I came to visit him.
At the time I was living in London, he was living in a town about half an hour’s train ride out of Glasgow. I was in Glasgow for a couple of days with work and had a free evening.
I remembered a music venue — the brilliantly named King Tut’s Wah-Wah Hut — that I used to always see in the listings of gigs and tours in the music magazines I read as a teenager (NME and Melody Maker).
I’d never been to a gig there, and had always wanted to, so I asked if he wanted to come with me. We’d have to take a gamble on who was playing, since that was…
