Hey, everybody, welcome back to Shape by Dog.

I am Susan Garrett and I got a list of descriptors for you.

Let me know if any one of them apply to your dog.

Stubborn, spiteful, sneaky, aggressive, frantic, a psycho, stupid, slow,

scaredy cat. He blows me off. He has his own agenda. He ignores me. Do any one of these adjectives or sentences, have you

ever used them to describe your dog if you have? This episode is for you because by the end of it,

I'm going to give you the solution to fix it all. Stick with me. I'm going to start by sharing a

psychology experiment that was done by a Harvard professor back in 1964. And he went into a

classroom. I don't remember the age of the kids. I think they were fairly young. He was doing

this test and it was a basic IQ test, but it had this fancy Harvard cover on it.

And he told them that the test would predict an intellectual explosion with these kids.

And then he just randomly put the kids in groups and gave the teacher a group and said,

now these children here in your classroom, they're the

gifted ones. They're the gifted ones. And what he observed is that the teacher had a thousand

different ways that she treated the group of gifted children differently. Things like how

patient she was with allowing them

to answer a question or how much she smiled at them or nodded at them in agreement when

they were speaking, how much she encouraged them. All of these things were noticeable in her

behavior. And it goes back to something that I learned first from

Tony Robbins. And it's what I call a belief loop. And Tony Robbins is a great author and I

worked with him over many, many years. Some people might call him a motivational speaker,

although he didn't like to be called that. The belief loop, it starts with

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