Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace, until Wednesday morning.

So I wonder whether you are more of an optimistic person or a pessimistic person.

We'll have days where we're more one or the other, but generally we tend to develop a pattern of one type of thinking over the course of a lifetime.

Not so long ago, a few years back, I was with, it's an elderly chap who needed to go into town to get some things.

And, he'd experienced, definitely I would say, a long period of time of negative cycles of thinking.

Got very caught up in his mind and in sort of almost depressive type thoughts.

And as we were driving into town, I was going to help him with some things, carry some stuff.

As we were driving in, I suggested a place to park, and immediately his answer was, there's no point in going there.

We'll never get a parking space there. It's always full and I said, well, yeah, maybe, but maybe not.

Like, maybe there will be a space. Let's just drive past and have a look.

And we drove there and almost I would say to his frustration, there was a space.

As we were just sort of driving in there, we started to rain a little bit.

And immediately he said, ah, it's just my luck.

Here comes the rain and you know, we're going to get work and have to use your umbrella.

I'm like, okay, but you know, you have an umbrella and it's okay.

Come on, let's go and find the things you need and I'll help you back with them.

And one of the things he needed was a new computer, a new laptop.

Not far away from the car. It's probably sort of about a five minute walk.

There was a sign outside a computer shop saying, win a laptop today.

I mean, you couldn't have created something sort of more compelling for someone who needed a laptop

and was planning to get a laptop that day. For me, you know, as signs go, I mean, it was a literal sign on the sidewalk.

Anyway, so I suggested to him that, you know, just go in, put your name down and then,

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