This is the puppy training podcast episode 197.

Are you focused on the task or the outcome?

This podcast is designed to help you on your journey of becoming best friends through love and

learning as you train your own dog from home.

And I'm here to help you every step of the way.

This is the puppy training podcast and I'm your host, Amy Jensen.

Hello, you guys. Thank you for listening. I've had a couple clients reach out and let me know

that they are from New Zealand. I had another reach out that they are from Australia. We have

clients in the UK. We have clients

all over the United States. It's just so fun to hear from you guys, see your photos of your puppies

and get to know you. So thank you for listening. Thank you for being part of our program.

We really enjoy working with you guys. Today I want to talk about task-based outcomes versus performance-based

outcomes. So I love psychology. I love studying the mind, the brain, how it works, and I'm

fascinated with a dog's mind and how their brain works, too. But today I've been thinking about,

or this past week I've been thinking about tasks based versus performance

outcomes largely because I have two daughters in high school soccer right now and it's the state

playoffs. So we were focused on, okay, are we more worried about winning and losing or are we more

worried about how we perform like each little task that we're going to do

to get there. So this pertains to dog training, believe it or not. And I always am trying to find

the parallels. So let's dive into this today because this can really help you with your mindset

when it comes to puppy training. I think that it helps us have a growth mindset. And yeah, we'll get into all of the details.

So when it comes to training a puppy, again, we have options.

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