How to be a Complete and Utter F**k Up, 3rd Edition

Step

28

Don’t talk and think about what you want

Quote to avoid

“Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.”

Lily Tomlin

Do you know it’s totally impossible to process a negative in your neurology? For example, just stop for a moment – now I don’t want you to think of a blue elephant. What are you thinking of? That’s right, a blue elephant. Yet we do this kind of thing all the time. I remember when my daughter Megan was about two-and-a-half years old – this was a mere six months after she’d learned that a bed wasn’t a prison¹ – and she came into the living room carrying a large glass of milk. There had been no spillage problems so far, but as a clever grown-up I could see it happening. Focusing on what can go wrong rather ...