I agree with Spiritalk on mindset being everything.Years ago I was on the other side of the hiring game. I was hiring people to grow the sales division of a new company. I was always upbeat and actually wanted to hire everyone I could, but some applicants were so negative they would get me down. Their mindset was to go through the motions, although they knew no one would hire them. Incredible as it was ( because we were desperate for sales people ), they would succeed in not getting hired. The funny thing is it was always a unanimous decision from the hiring board to not hire them. It goes to prove we create our own reality every day.

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Oh dear did we upset him, he just doesn't understand our binge drinking culture.
Instead of fannying about down Glastonbury (hippies!! were does he go?) he should get down to the cities - any city at 2 am - now that's our culture.