#184: What's Wrong with "Drilling"?

Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training

Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

Dogobedience, Dogtraining, Hobbies, Kids & Family, Leisure, Showdogtraining, Puppytraining, Dogbehavior, Dogagility, Pets & Animals

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we dig into the concept of drilling, and how it applies in dog training. It’s pretty common for most of us to have an emotional response just to the term itself - for good reason! But is there any baby in this bathwater?

In this episode, we discuss that drilling is significant for skill acquisition in various contexts beyond dog training, our emotional responses to drilling are shaped by personal experiences and the nature of the activity, a good drill should isolate core components of skills for focused practice and efficiency, coercive drilling methods that ignore the learner’s needs lead to negative associations and even hinder learning, repetition alone is insufficient for learning; reinforcement and iterative adjustments are critical, deliberate practice involves observing, learning, and modifying activities based on feedback, mindless repetition without feedback and adjustment does not lead to improvement, continuous improvement requires proactive engagement and measured adjustments based on outcomes, and seeking help and guidance when progress stalls is essential for effective skill development.

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0:00.0	The idea is that you have to repeat something, some prescribed number of times in order to learn it.
0:07.7	You have to practice the habit for 21 days or 60 days or 27 years.
0:12.0	I don't know.
0:12.6	There's some number of times that you have to do the thing over and over again for it to count.
0:18.1	But I think our lived experience would show us that that's not true.
0:44.1	Hey there, fellow training nerds. You're listening to Drinking from the Toilet.
0:47.7	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. And I'm your host, Hannah Branigan,
0:52.0	teacher, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book
0:54.3	Awesome Obedience, and its companion Awesome Obedience, the field guide, which are both available
0:58.8	from clickertraining.com.
1:00.7	All right, before we jump into this week's episode, I have a quick announcement to make,
1:06.1	if you remember our friend Shade, Shade Whitesell, she's been on the pod multiple times.
1:12.6	So we are working together,
1:17.8	teaming up again, to do a reboot, I think is the word I'm looking for, reboot of our Barking Shitcho workshop. So we ran this one a while ago, Times of Contract, and we're kind of
1:25.3	renovating a little bit, and we're going to put it back up in very soon, very soon, next month, which I believe is the month of March, for those of you that follow a calendar.
1:34.0	So the date for the live workshop is going to be March 19th. I don't have the rest of the information ready for you, but I wanted to give you the heads up about it.
1:43.6	So the way our live workshops work is that when you first sign up, you I wanted to give you the heads up about it. So the way our live
1:44.3	workshops work is that when you first sign up, you're going to get some homework, some reading
1:49.7	material videos to watch and stuff in advance. And then you'll have some time to play with that.
1:55.8	And then we'll meet together live, say in person, but not because we will be virtual.
2:03.1	It's virtually in person.
2:05.1	You'll be able to see me because I'll be on video and shade.
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