It's important to remember that the delivery of the reinforcement contains information, just as the timing of your click or any other event marker does.

So the placement of that reinforcement, how exactly you're delivering it, how your arm moves where the food appears, and how your dog contacts it, all of that contains information.

It's going to influence the behavior that you're training.

So if a treat flies out with a totally different piece of information and

there's no consistency, then all that extra information becomes static.

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Okay. So let's get on to the topic for this week. So I get a lot of questions about motivation

in general. This is something that I think about a lot,

of course. It's definitely things that you guys have questions about. How do I motivate my dog?

How can I keep my dog interested in working with me and paying attention? And oh my gosh,

that's such a big topic. And I really get it. There's a lot of variables in play. There's so

many things that we can try. There's a lot of techniques. play. There's so many things that we can try. There's a lot

of techniques. There's just so much going on when it comes to motivation and engagement.

Reinforcement is part of that, but only a part of it. Really, I think of motivation against the

larger construct. It is a little bit of a label. So I am careful how I use it, but the larger kind

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