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Edspace Studio. Hi, it's Andy here, and welcome to Radio Headspace, and to 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, he'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, it started to rain a little bit. And immediately, he said, oh, it's just my luck here comes to rain and you know we're

going to get wet and have to use the 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

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