Contrarian: The cult of the worst-case scenario

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Are you a shoe gazer? Apparently I am, if my daughter is to be believed. The shoe-gazing slur was first levelled at me over Christmas as I tried to put on some ‘chillaxing' music after an especially rumbustious game of Monopoly ended in all-out war.

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