#186: Training Faster Behaviors Without Frustration, Part 1

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Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

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🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we discuss:

Speed vs. Latency:
- Speed is how fast a behavior is completed from the time it starts.
- Latency is the response time, or the time elapsed between when the cue is perceived and when the behavior starts.
Motivation:
- While motivation is essential, it is just one piece of the puzzle.
- Overemphasizing motivation can lead to frustration, which might not always yield the desired outcomes.
Natural Behavior Efficiency:
- Given a stable training environment, behaviors naturally trend towards faster, more efficient performance over time.
Training Environment:
- The importance of considering training conditions (e.g., environment, timing, footing) to ensure optimal speed without inducing frustration.
- Pay attention to when, where, and under what conditions your dog already moves faster

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0:00.0	When we are kind of hung up on motivation as the only way, like the only thing that we can influence to get faster behaviors, we can sometimes like slip and slide from thinking in terms of positive reinforcement motivation to maybe a negative reinforcement kind of motivation.
0:19.8	We might like call something like desperation.
0:41.4	Hey there, fellow training nerds.
0:43.2	You're listening to Drinking from the Toilet.
0:49.4	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.
0:54.3	And I'm your host, Hannah Branigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster, and author of the book Awesome Obedience and Its Companion Awesome Obedience to the Field Guide, which are both available
0:58.5	from clickertraining.com.
1:00.2	I'm also the founder of Zero to CD, which is the only totally integrated program to get
1:04.9	you competition ready using positive reinforcement methods.
1:08.9	And along those same lines, I am going to be running a 21-day healing challenge with exercises
1:16.6	to make your healing awesomer.
1:18.6	Improve your position, make it tighter, sharper, improve your focus.
1:22.6	This is going to be similar but not identical to the challenge that I did last year around this time.
1:29.9	I'm still working on putting the details together, planning on starting it in September.
1:34.4	So if that is something that catches your attention, you're interested in playing or playing again
1:39.3	because we had a lot of fun last time, then keep your ears on this spot and keep your eyes out on social media
1:46.4	and in your inbox because I will send out emails once we have, once we have all of the
1:51.8	details nailed down. If you're not on the email list, you can go to my website and get yourself
1:57.5	on it. This week we are talking about getting faster behaviors in training without
2:02.6	leveraging frustration. I'm specifically looking at all of the ways that we can increase speed
2:08.7	that are totally separate from anything that we might would put in a category of, I'm going to do
2:14.6	some air quotes, drive. So if you have a dog that you're worried is,
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