All To Gain

What have you got to lose?

When asked this question, regardless of context, we can quickly go into brainstorming mode and come up with a long list of things we have to lose. 

We can shorten our list considerably by asking the follow up question of:

What have you really got to lose?

The list can be shortened again by asking:

What are the consequences of losing [fill in the blank]?

Our list can be further modified when we ask:

What have you got to gain?

Yes, we can find many a reason (and excuse) not to do the thing.

And if it is important to us, we can find many a reason why we can.

Okay, I’m going to do it. Are you?