Bringing that pattern into this new space can help with that confidence.

They know what to expect.

They have a clear path to reinforcement.

So I really love thinking about it in terms of fluency because it breaks it down.

It makes confidence a much more achievable thing.

Confidence doesn't have to be this amorphous quality that your dog has or doesn't have.

Hey guys. Welcome to Drinking from the Toilet, the podcast for serious training nerds.

If you're looking to combine the science of behavior with positive reinforcement philosophy

in real life, you have come to the right place.

I am Hannah Branigan, teacher, trainer, podcaster, anxious introvert, and author of the book,

Awesome Obedience, which you can pick up right now in paper or ebook format from clickertraining.com.

So let's talk about confidence. This is something that's been on my mind a lot lately on many different levels.

Confidence sounds so good. It's something that I think most of us want in our lives, in our training, both for our dogs and

ourselves. And in fact, we talk a lot about building confidence, or at least I do. I feel like

I'm talking about it nonstop. It's a major component of my zero to CD program because I think

whether you're training for real life or competition, teaching behaviors on a surface level is really relatively easy,

but building the whole emotional picture and strengthening it to the point that it's robust

enough to hold up in a performance or trial setting, that's a whole other story.

Really, I think in this program, it's one of the most important tasks, or actually,

it's a whole category of tasks in the program that we work on, putting together the system

and tools that we use to get dogs and their trainers, comfortable, get focused and stay

confident in new training situations, including dog shows. But what is confidence? Of course,

...