chocolate and an assortment of cups — porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, some exquisite — telling them to help themselves to the hot chocolate.
when they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said: “notice that the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. while it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. the cup you’re drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate. in most cases, it is just more expensive, and in some cases, even hides what we drink. 