Making Your Mind Your Most Powerful Dog Training Tool #195
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
DogsThat
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🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
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Why would a dog training program work or not work for some people? I had the chance to approach dog training from a place of curiosity on social media recently and learned a lot. There was also a comment that got me thinking about approaches to dog training, especially our mind's approach. How our mind matters for dog training success is the topic of this episode, plus I have some bonus book recommendations and a Wag Nation special enrollment surprise.
In the episode you'll hear:
• The two types of students guaranteed to get dog training results.
• The difference between successful and lackluster training outcomes.
• How our intentional mindset determines our outcomes.
• About nature vs. nurture and our ability to change at any time.
• About fixed vs. growth mindset in relation to your dog.
• Why we should challenge labels and fixed mindsets with curiosity.
• About noticing how you show up for others when "squeezed" by life.
• How to pinpoint what's holding you back from achieving dog training goals.
• The characteristics of students who thrive in DogsThat classrooms.
• Where to find lessons in failure.
• What we can learn from "The 4 Disciplines of Execution".
• About the book "Measure What Matters".
• That anyone can achieve a growth mindset.
• How to get our Wag Nation and Home School the Dog discount bundle.
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Resources:
1. *Book - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck - https://geni.us/mindset-book
2. *Book - The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling - https://geni.us/4-disciplines
3. *Book - Measure What Matters Paperback by John Doerr - https://geni.us/measurewhatmatters
4. Podcast Episode 150: Adding Mindset To Your Dog Training Tools: Who Do You Become? - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/150/
5. Podcast Episode 186: 2 Types Of Connection With Dogs: Dog Agility And Daily Life Case Studies - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/186/
6. Podcast Episode 121: How To Stop Dogs Jumping Up On People - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/121/
7. Podcast Episode 190: Using Daily Quickies To Fast Track Your Dog Training And Grow Your Dog’s Skills - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/190/
8. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/LRBmRAHjQ9w
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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!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Last week, I got tagged into a conversation on the Facebook page of a balanced trainer, |
| 0:06.7 | which is not a place I find myself very often, but I thought, let's go and approach from a place of |
| 0:13.0 | curiosity. I learned a lot, that might be the topic of another podcast, but one of the comments was from |
| 0:20.4 | former student who said |
| 0:22.1 | that our program didn't work for them. And it got me thinking about why our program or anyone's |
| 0:30.0 | program might not work for some people. And that's the topic of today's podcast. Plus, |
| 0:36.3 | I'm going to share a few books and how you |
| 0:40.0 | could become one of our students. I'll share all that by the end of this podcast. |
| 1:02.5 | Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. And, you know, it's not like an ego takes a hit when somebody said, I tried your program and it just didn't work because really, I know that |
| 1:07.3 | there are students who are definitely going to get results from our program and they |
| 1:12.2 | fall into one of two, pretty much guaranteed going to see results. And that is, number one would be |
| 1:18.6 | they're already successful dog trainers and they come to us to learn a different approach, |
| 1:23.8 | a different methodology. Now, they're already successful dog trainers. It tells me |
| 1:28.6 | something about their mindset. Now, the other group of students that almost invariably will |
| 1:35.2 | get results from the program, and those are people who have never trained a dog before. |
| 1:39.7 | And you're going to say, well, that's weird. Why would they have results more than people |
| 1:43.5 | who have trained dogs? Because they come in like sponges. They just want to learn. They're in awe |
| 1:50.4 | of watching their dogs get things. They're in awe of seeing their dogs perform behaviors. |
| 1:56.6 | They get results because they follow the program as it's laid out. Now, the group in the middle, |
| 2:01.7 | some of them get outrageous results and some of them, you know, less than perfect. What's the |
| 2:08.0 | difference that I see between all of these people? It's mindset. It's that simple. It is the |
| 2:15.2 | mindset that each of us have. Now, I'm not going to label you and put you in a corner |
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