I am very lucky to be surrounded by some amazing dog trainers. They constantly motivate me to have a better trained dog. Motivation and goals are great but they make it very easy for me to forget to look at how well trained Iggy has become.
Today I did a recall class and it was just two students so Iggy participated much more than he usually does. He was his usual awesome and charming self. These ladies where in awe of our skill and that made me pause and really appreciate how far we have come. I purposely made him fail because I was trying to explain testing the value and the need to go to failure and then learn from the failure. Wow the confidence I have achieved in myself and this dog to work through that process in front of students and not panic.
There are so many great quotes on failure I will just quote a few
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
George Cukor
Today I did a recall class and it was just two students so Iggy participated much more than he usually does. He was his usual awesome and charming self. These ladies where in awe of our skill and that made me pause and really appreciate how far we have come. I purposely made him fail because I was trying to explain testing the value and the need to go to failure and then learn from the failure. Wow the confidence I have achieved in myself and this dog to work through that process in front of students and not panic.
There are so many great quotes on failure I will just quote a few
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
George Cukor
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