When it comes to a wandering mind, we often struggle.

We lose things. We drop things. We lock ourselves out of the house. We dive deep but then disconnect. We wade through scatter. We can do well here, but not there, but only today, and not tomorrow, and not yesterday, and it’s not clear why.

Through these repeated gaffs and stumbles, many of us begin to believe that something is wrong with us. Throughout we may well fear that were we to decide, we may well choose poorl...