#170: How To Avoid Too Much Drilling

Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training

Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

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4.7 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss tradeoffs when using systematic “drills” to isolate specific aspects of an exercise, drills help us isolate specific aspects of an exercise and give us the advantage of Deliberate Practice for expertise, what is meant by “fun”?, play and fun often introduce more variability as well as a dialogue, strategies to protect myself from myself, using “play sandwiches” to break up a session, training overlapping skills in the same session, and using “different-but-not-harder” creatively for novelty and flexibility.

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0:00.0	So then the contrasting play part of that session is going to be the opposite.
0:05.5	So I'll often throw a ball or a treat down low.
0:08.7	So now my dog is stretching out.
0:10.4	They're moving long and low.
0:12.0	So it lets them rest their body and their mind to give me that picture of precise, enthusiastic
0:17.8	healing that I'm after.
0:19.7	I'm going to have that play sandwich
0:21.0	be pretty high energy.
0:41.8	Hey there, fellow training nerds.
0:43.7	You're listening to drinking from the toilet.
0:50.3	If you like to geek out about combining the science of behavior with positive reinforcement philosophy in real life, you've come to the right place.
0:55.4	And I'm your host, Hannah Branigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book Awesome Obedience, as well as its companion, Awesome Obedience, The Field Guide, which are both
1:00.7	available from clickertraining.com. This episode is supported by the M.E.T. Conference and
1:07.6	patrons like Randy L. Kate P., SkyW, and Liz H, who are each unusually
1:17.8	excellent people with very good taste, and coincidentally support this podcast on Patreon.
1:25.0	If you also have really good taste and you'd like to support the podcast,
1:29.3	get your questions answered, and get access to our super secret extra podcast episodes,
1:33.8	go to patreon.com slash dFTT, or you can always follow the link in the show notes.
1:41.5	Today, our topic is inspired by a question from a patron about how to avoid
1:46.6	getting caught up with drilling during a training session and keep things more fun, which I think is
1:52.3	a very good question. Before we jump into that, I do one item of business I wanted to let you know
1:57.3	about. So, of course, time is a construct, but as the wheel turns,
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