Good things take time – but new research suggests mindfulness can make the wait easier

Tingting Ji/Getty Images Ask someone if they’d rather take $5 today or $10 next week and they’ll know which option is better. Yet that idea of “today” can have a magnetic pull. It’s precisely the reason many shoppers purchase things they can’t afford yet through “buy now, pay later” schemes – and often regret it afterwards. We might put such unwise choices down to weak willpower or poor self-control. But our new research suggests something else may be going on: it’s not that our brains…