Psychology says what separates happy people from everyone else isn’t their circumstances — it’s that they can be in a plain, ordinary moment without wanting it to be a different one

Psychology says what separates happy people from everyone else isn’t their circumstances — it’s that they can be in a plain, ordinary moment without wanting it to be a different one

You’re rinsing a coffee mug at the sink. The water’s warm, nobody needs you for the next four minutes, and nothing’s wrong. And you’re not there. You’re drafting a reply to an email, replaying a comment from lunch, pricing out a weekend you haven’t booked. The mug gets clean without you. Most of us assume...