How Your Questions Instantly Improve or Sabotage Your Dog Training #49
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 27 November 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
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What if it were possible to dramatically improve your dog's focus, skills and overall behaviour just by changing the questions you are asking? There's no magic pixie dust, but it is possible for everyone. Reinforcement-based training requires outside-the-box thinking. Anyone can become a resourceful solutions-based dog trainer, and I'm giving you the four-step process I share with all of my students.
In the episode you'll hear:
• About swapping old thinking to new thinking.
• Why the human brain is an amazing computer.
• How to ask better questions.
• The challenge with social media darkness and drama.
• Why we humans have more compassion for strangers than ourselves.
• How you are already answering dog training questions with great ideas.
• That you are somebody's expert.
• About knowing what to do next with your dog.
• The four-step process for posting a dog training question.
• How to get your brain to give you amazing answers.
• The importance of empowering statements.
• How to get the best support and help with the way you ask questions.
• How to have conversations with your family and friends about your dog.
Resources:
• Recallers - https://recallers.com/
• Home School the Dog - https://dogsthat.com/home-school/
• Game: Learn How to Play ItsYerChoice (IYC) - https://recallers.com/iycsummit-join/
• Susan Garrett's Dog Training Blog - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/
• Book: Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott -https://geni.us/fierce-conversations
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Susan only recommends products she uses herself, and all opinions expressed here are her own. The link above is an affiliate link that, at no additional cost to you, we may earn a small commission if you decide to buy from it. Thank you!
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| 0:00.0 | What if it was possible to dramatically improve your dogs focus, their skill, and their |
| 0:15.8 | overall behavior just by changing the questions that you're asking? |
| 0:25.4 | No pills, no magic pixie dusk, not even any textbooks to read. I am confident it is possible and I'm going to prove it to you before |
| 0:31.9 | the end of this podcast and I'm going to give you the four-step process that I give to all of my online students |
| 0:39.5 | to help them to become more resourceful dog trainers. |
| 0:43.8 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett and welcome to Shape by Dog. |
| 0:47.1 | Why is this important to dog training? |
| 0:49.8 | It's particularly important for those of you who believe in training dogs the way that |
| 0:55.2 | I train dogs because reinforcement-based, game-based dog training is just different. |
| 1:01.2 | And solutions to problems requires more outside of the box thinking than traditional |
| 1:07.6 | dog training would require. For example, pick any dog training problem. |
| 1:12.5 | Let's say a dog has chewed your slipper. Now, old thinking, the first question would be, |
| 1:18.7 | who's to blame? Did somebody leave the puppy loose? Is the puppy to blame because they're just naughty? Old thinking is someone's to blame. |
| 1:31.5 | Outside of the box, new thinking is, how can I alter my puppy's motivation so they do not see the |
| 1:39.7 | value in chewing a slipper or whatever it is that your dog training problem is. You see, |
| 1:47.4 | the human brain is an amazing computer. If you ask it questions, it's going to give you answers. |
| 1:55.2 | I'm going to give you proof right now. I said I would before the end of the podcast. I'm doing it |
| 1:59.3 | right at the beginning. For those of you who are driving, I want you to pay attention to the road, but I want you to |
| 2:05.6 | listen to this question. And I want you all to listen to the answer or the answers that your |
| 2:15.6 | brain gives you. Okay. you ready for this question? |
| 2:19.5 | Why do some people avoid spending time with me? Ask yourself that question. Why do some people |
| 2:27.8 | avoid spending time with me? Now, right now your brain is probably spitting out all the worst things anybody's |
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