My wife told me a story she heard on NPR (National Public Radio) concerning "New Year Resolutions." It said in short that to make it work you had to break down what you wanted to do into very small things. You had to be very specific because just saying your going to change your attitude is not enough but rather what specific attitude. In my case eliminating my angry flare-ups could be specific enough.
This reminds me so much of how one shall study and learn martial arts. This is the "budo" aspect where you expect to apply the skills in a violent situation. In order to make it work requires many things of which only one is to break it down "atomistically" into small things. Then it is a matter of a style of practice that allows one to encode it in such a manner it is available for reassembly by the "lizard brain" into some semblance of influenced survival instinct.
Our need to gloss over such mundane and simplistic things for the glory of the exciting, flashy and kudo's should be, like politeness, pushed aside for more important things.
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