Lights! Camera? Action!

I heard a saying the other day that a habit is a behavior repeated many times. There's a crucial lesson in that saying, and I think it deals with applied learning.
The biggest piece of this process, as it invariably is with every formal or informal education I've received in my lifetime, is trying to apply what I've learned. I can't think of an instructor who hasn't preached this very same mantra over and over, but I'm surprised by how often I've disregarded it. Is this perhaps why I continue to feel the need to be "educated"?
As Dan indicated in the previous post, we've gone through many of the sections of reading and for the most part I've found the material to be interesting. Let's define interesting: hmm, that seems accurate, for the most part, to someone in a land far, far away. I use the words "theoretical" and "in theory" a lot when I'm learning to indicate that I'm intellectually processing data but I haven't lived it. My last session with Dan we spent discussing the things I'd learned, but most importantly what I've done to apply the lessons. As luck would have it, there are situations daily that require the practicing leadership skills. Who knew?
Thinking about the specific things we've talked about during an actual situation isn't the easiest thing, another thing that every instructor says. But practicing makes it easier and I guess that's the point. Make it a habit. The funny thing is, I'm a big fan of various physical activities that require repetition to build muscle memory. Why I've never embraced this concept in the behavior sense is a mystery to me.
Or maybe this is all just an elaborate Jedi mind-trick Dan's playing on me. Food for thought.