A student labors through assignment after assignment from a highly disciplined teacher. Many times these turning points are so subtle we barely even notice them. Sure, there are car wrecks, and heart attacks, and brief encounters that result in large financial benefits. Those life changes are easier to acknowledge. Most life change, however, happens imperceptibly.
Subtle habits become ingrained tendencies.
With a backward glance over the shoulder significant patterns emerge. I recently spent a day at the world famous Cooper Clinic located here in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Kenneth Cooper is the genius who originated the whole concept of aerobics. After a day of poking and prodding Dr. Cooper and his team can unearth not only what a person has been doing in every realm of physical exercise, but what that person has been doing at the dinner table as well. At no other time do these subtle daily habits appear on the computer screen more vividly.