#16 - Can't decide? Displace!

Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training

Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

How To, Education, Pets & Animals, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We've all seen and experienced displacement behavior... but what does that mean? Displacement behavior is most likely to be exhibited when you (or your dog) are faced with tough choices... conflicting sources of motivation. Should I stay or should I go? If it's an easy decision... maybe staying is super amazing and going is very sad, no problem! But if both decisions are fairly equivalent (on either a good or bad scale), then we feel tension. Displacement behaviors show up right in that spot. Scratching your head, chewing your nails... or scratching, sniffing, or personal grooming if you are a dog. These are all behaviors that serve a normal function in one context, but make no sense at all in others. When we see a normal behavior like that out of context, we are often looking at a displacement behavior. Noticing displacement behavior in your training sessions? Then we should look for sources of conflicting motivation and/or social tension. Addressing the source will go a LOT farther than addressing the displacement behavior directly.

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0:00.0	Hey there.
0:14.0	This is drinking from the toilet.
0:16.2	And I'm your host, Hannah Branigan.
0:18.7	If you follow me on social media, you may know by now that I've been
0:22.3	working on a book. And this is a book idea that I've had for quite a while now, over a year,
0:26.4	maybe two years. And for the most part, it's taken the form of a massive collection of thoughts
0:32.0	and notes that I've been collecting in Evernote and, you know, post-its and things like that.
0:38.3	But now I have an actual contract with an actual publisher who's given me an actual deadline.
0:45.3	So I need to come up with an actual book that can be printed and published.
0:50.3	So for the last several weeks, I've been working on pulling those notes together, organizing them,
0:57.6	turning outlines into chapters, and actually, you know, writing in those filling in pieces
1:02.5	to make it more book-like and less like a pile napkins.
1:07.3	And now is the time to edit.
1:10.0	So that means I need to do some trimming. My vision for this book
1:14.3	is that it's something that people will be able to practically reference and that becomes
1:18.7	less practical as the book increases in volume, especially massively. So 200,000 page book
1:25.6	is going to be very hard to carry around in your
1:27.7	training bag to look at really quick when you're actually trying to do some training. So I need
1:33.9	to cut down and get it down to the essentials, tighten it up. But how to decide exactly what
1:39.4	makes the cut? And so the result of that is, my desk hasn't been this clean in years. My old paperwork has all
1:49.9	been filed. I've taken all those envelopes from the Christmas cards from last Christmas that I was
1:54.0	saving for the addresses and I actually recorded the addresses in my in my contacts. I've even gone so
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