What Could Possibly Go Right?

Before we talk about the book at all: tell us about a restaurant, diner, or kitchen table where you have always felt genuinely taken care of. What made it feel that way?

The title asks what could possibly go right. What is one small thing that went right for you this week that you have not told anyone about yet?

Meyer draws a line between service (doing the thing correctly) and hospitality (making someone feel good). Where in your own life have you been on the receiving end of real hospitality, and how did it land in your body?

Reading about his early years and the people who shaped his taste, did you find yourself thinking about anyone who fed you or taught you something at a table? Who came to mind, and what did you want to tell them?

There is a lot of warmth in how he writes about taking care of the people who work for him. Which part of that softened you, or made you wish a workplace of yours had felt more like that?

The book treats optimism as a practice rather than a personality trait. Did you find that comforting, a little aspirational, or slightly too sunny? No wrong answer, just honest.

He is unusually willing to sit with the things that did not work and talk about them kindly. Was there a stumble in the book that you found yourself unexpectedly moved by, maybe because it resembled one of your own?

By the time you closed the book, had your sense of what you want the next few years to feel like shifted at all? Not what you want to achieve, but what you want it to feel like day to day.