My bank account is overflowing with money!

Almost everyone has a floor — a number they try not to go below. For one person it's three hundred pounds. For another it's thirty thousand. The strange part is that the feeling at the floor is identical in both cases.

Which suggests the relief of a full account isn't really about the total. It's about the distance between where you are and where the fear starts.

Overflowing is a sensation before it's an amount. Widening that gap by any amount at all does real work on how a Tuesday feels.