An angry person does not see 

 very clearly; he cannot calculate 

 his movements and place each 

 stroke where it will do the most 

 good. He may act with ail his 

 energy — but he acts wildly. The 

 calm person acts deliberately, 

 intelligently. He knows exactly 

 what he wants to do, and how 

 to do it. But his action usually 

 lacks drive. It takes training and 

 self-control to enable one to 

 punch with all his might and yet 

 make every stroke count 



TRAINED ACTION 



our hunger is largely within our control. Hungry people have fought one 

 another for food; that is one way. Hungry people have gone out to hunt 

 game, or they have organized work that would bring them food; that is 

 another way. Even at the table you can see hunger driving some people 

 into one kind of behavior and others into a different kind. The different 

 behaviors of hungry people show that we can acquire not only different 

 kinds of action ''habits", but also different kinds of emotions or feelings 

 about things and activities, about ourselves and about other people. 



These feelings which incline us to act one way rather than another, or 

 which make us favor some kinds of dealings or relationships and turn away 

 from others, we call attitudes. These attitudes, like tastes, are no doubt due 

 in part to natural individual peculiarities. To a certain degree, however, 

 they can be learned or acquired through our experiences. These attitudes 

 are quite as much a part of our behavior as the natural and unconscious 

 responses of our internal organs or our reflexes or chemical adjustments, and 

 as much so as the things we do intentionally. In fact, our whole manner of 

 living represents a scheme in which emotions, thoughts and actions are all 

 parts of a unity. One who shows what we call breeding, or good manners, 

 at table has a different set of feelings from one who shows bad manners. 

 Both may be equally hungry. Differences in behaving represent differences 

 in ways of feeling and thinking, not merely differences in "habits". 



If a baby is accustomed to feel the joy of satisfied hunger immediately 

 after hearing a certain sound, he will soon come to have that joyous feeling 

 on hearing the sound. If people discover that controlled anger brings more 

 satisfaction than uncontrolled anger, they will in time find a way to control 

 anger. 



The habits that we acquire all involve feeling, as well as thinking and 



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