The latest issue of the Center’s weekly, The Great Ideas Online (No. 1051), discussed this chapter from Intellect: Mind Over Matter, by Mortimer Adler.
"Existentially, powers come first, habits second, and habitual actions last; and in origin powers precede acts, and acts precede habits, for it is by the operation of our powers that we form habits."TGIO is emailed to members.
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Ben Mayfield, Special to The Advocate (Baton Rouge).
"Then one day my secretary announced that Mr. Doe with 'The Great Books of the Western World' was here to see me. My former roommate had a set of the books which I enjoyed reading, and from that time on they were on my wish list. Mr. Doe explained that they had a three-year payment plan with monthly payments of $14.73. We had two small children and were living from payday to payday so I knew we could not justify the added financial burden.
"I was about to inform Mr. Doe that I couldn’t do it, when I had an epiphany. I think it was divine. The monthly payment was equivalent to my smoking cost, which was a budgeted item."
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