#179: More Strategies to Reduce Errors

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Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In the last episode, we talked about what errorless learning really means. And I shared a few strategies that might make it easier to apply in your training.

Of course, the major benefit to using errorless learning concepts in your training is the outcome of behaviors with a cleaner learning history and less emotional baggage.

Of course, we don’t want attempts to avoid errors to mean we also avoid making progress. We still want to get where we’re going, just with fewer wrong turns.

In this episode we discuss behavioral momentum, using behavioral momentum to avoid a lack of response to your cues (a common form of error), the importance of starting with low criteria and be in a position to raise that criteria quickly, rather than starting with an error and being forced to lower that criteria (Thanks, Bob Bailey!), examples from starting a heeling session, to working with distance on go outs, to teaching a pony to move forward on cue, using an indirect, “lateral” approach to selecting your criteria to avoid hammering on the most fragile aspect of a behavior you are trying to train, examples include teaching hold with duration (after breaking it), and working around emotionally-loaded challenges with heeling or loose-leash walking, and probably other things I forgot!

For full show notes, visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/179
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0:00.0	If you run into something, some variable, some distraction, some stimulus, some aspect of a behavior that you're trying to train, that seems to create a high likelihood of errors, stop working on that thing.
0:16.0	Don't run straight at the hardest part of it. Work around it. Take an indirect approach.
0:43.4	Are you there fellow training nerds, you're listening to Drinking from the Toilet.
0:50.1	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.
0:55.0	And I'm your host, Hannah Branigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book,
1:00.1	Awesome Obedience, and his companion, Awesome Obedience, the field guide, which are both available from clickertraining.com.
1:01.9	So we are now in the month of October, which means, among other things, that it is zero-to-cd enrollment
1:09.0	season.
1:10.2	So the program will open on Monday, October 23rd,
1:14.1	with orientation for the new cohort on the following Wednesday, November 1st. It's a little weird
1:20.9	this year because of November 1st being on a Wednesday, but that's when the official orientation
1:26.1	is going to be. So if you're not familiar
1:29.5	with it, zero to CD is my online mentorship program that is a little bit about obedience and a lot
1:35.7	about applying good training practices in real life. So very nerdy, very comprehensive,
1:42.5	because we cover aspects of training that you really can't find in a class or webinar or in really most other places.
1:51.3	Particularly when it comes to tackling a large long-term training project, like training for an obedience title.
1:57.9	Teaching the skills is relatively easy. Everything's relative. But how do you integrate all the
2:05.4	different skills into larger, more complex behaviors, incorporate distractions without ruining
2:10.5	everything and turn these isolated components into a cohesive performance in a complex
2:16.3	environment when you don't have any food in your pocket
2:18.4	and do it all in a way that's consistent with modern progressive positive reinforcement
2:23.3	philosophy and standards. So that's what the program is about. And it is a program that always
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