When to comes to dog training, myths abound, especially when you are talking about Clicker Training. Eric Brad engages in a little myth busting.
Archives for January 2011
Moving vs. Being Moved: Being Willing to Experience the World Around Us
In rush hour at a D.C. metro station, world renowned violinist Joshua Bell participated in a staged experiment to see how hurried commuters would respond to encountering exquisite classical music played on an 18th century violin by (unbeknownst to them) one of the finest classical musicians in the world.
Myths about Positive Reinforcement and Clicker Training – Part 1
Eric Brad takes an in-depth look at the myths surrounding dog training, specifically Clicker Training and and Positive reinforcement training. Why, he wonders, are some people so resistant to changing their dog training techniques if they can get better results and have happier dogs?
What is it About that Particular Park?
An author feels compelled to visit a park he hasn’t been to in 45 years. He senses something critical to his past is hidden there.
Dream Come True
A woman who has the same nightmare for 35 years discovers that her dream was actually a reality.
The Power to Change Our Story
I’m yet again amazed at how easily we can get stuck in the gravity of our past. The stories of our past come to determine who we are in the present and the future. And that’s exactly what happened me.
Message to NASA – The Frontier Is Everywhere
A NASA fan says the space agency has forgotten to share its hopes and dreams…so he does it for them. NASA fan Reid Gower created the video remix NASA: The Frontier is Everywhere* with its voice-over by Carl Sagan (who else?) because… “I got frustrated with NASA and made this video. NASA is the most […]
Gratitude: Smiling from Inside Out
Expressing gratitude is one of the simplest things we can do for ourselves that is completely free and within our grasp. We need only make the conscious choice to express it…to make it a habit.
White Men and Their Guns: Considering Ways Violence is Spun
Following the recent shootings in Arizona, Nathan Thomson explores the culpability denials, political spinnings, angry tirades and accusations – and finds them hard to swallow. “People want to pin the crazy label on Mr. Loughner,” he writes, “but I’d say it’s the mass dissociation from responsibility for public speech that’s pretty damned insane.”
Buddhism and Ayn Rand
Why on earth would a Buddhist recommend reading Ayn Rand, whose philosophy expounds the Virtue Of Selfishness, for whom thought is the only tool we have to know reality and who views achievement as the sole purpose of our lives?
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