November Q&A
A listener questions episode about the benefits of food reinforcers, the drawbacks of toy reinforcers, and picking a dog that suits your...Reinforcer Microskills: Foodstuff
More Microskills today! If you didn’t read my first post in this series, you can check it out here. The next set of Microskills that I find really vital is that of reinforcer skills. We don’t often think about investing a lot of time into training the reinforcement...Imposter Syndrome with Hannah Branigan
Imposter Syndrome with Hannah Branigan A discussion about feelings of intellectual fraudulence with the one and only Hannah Branigan of Drinking From the Toilet
Microskills
I have been talking with clients a lot lately about a concept I am calling “miscroskills.” Microskills are the tiny elements that make up most of our future behaviors–they are the skills that make it easy for our dog to learn anything else. I would divide microskills into three categories: behaviors, reinforcers, and life. Here are the behavior microskills I find the most valuable, in no particular order…
