The attitude behind the attitude.

This word is still a big puzzle to me as to what it really means altogether. It has so many facets to it which have been so puzzling to understand. Any thing a man reacts back is based on as they say on his attitude. So if that is so then we have to change it to get a desired change in our output. The question which I had as a bottom line is that can it be changed?? Everybody in world says to change your attitude to get a change in you. I had gone for the SSB test at Bhopal a few yrs back. While my stay of 5 days there I learnt their testing, screening procedures to recruit an armed forces officer. The whole process with seemingly stringent physical drilling had not even 5% weightage on the physical fitness and abilities.. minimum required fitness with no ailments was all they required. Then what was it all about? It was all about the attitude of the guy. As they say they cannot train the basic mentality of a guy. One who is a coward is a coward and nothing can change it. Whole 5 days they keep screening for courage toughness daring quick intelligent abilities which are by and large all mental traits. Now with this back ground I kept on thinking if armed forces can train a naïve boy to get to high fitness levels, they can very well change the attitude if that was possible as per the present soft skill/ personality development experts say. I finally asked one army personnel about this and was fortunate enough to get a reasonable answer. Its not that the attitude cannot be changed. All it takes is total effort from oneself and a lot of time for constant improvement to get the result. The physical fitness can be changed by mentoring for a short time. That really explained most of it. To understand the attitude behind changing the attitude has been a good starter enough to shake our own attitude a bit if not change it.