He said: “At some point in this, somebody is going to ask you a question where the true answer hurts a person you like.

“I want you to decide right now, in this office, in February, what you are going to do.

Not in the room.

You cannot decide it in the room; nobody has ever successfully decided that in the room.

“Decide it here, where it’s cheap, and then in the room you’re just a man remembering a decision.”

So I sat in a waiting room with a lighthouse print on it and I decided.

It took about four minutes, which surprised me.