What a shitty day yesterday was. Imagine your dog goes missing. A few years later, you're at the park and you see a dog that looks eerily like yours, but not yours. You blink twice, rub your eyes. You think of the craziness of what your gut is telling you. You feel an ice cold,... Continue Reading →
Life Is Magic And Nose Work Is Life
This post uses affiliate links, making a purchase through them is one way to support the blog "What do you say to yourself before you snap the ball?" he asked me one day. "Uh, I don't know," I said, thinking about it. "There are times when I'm on the sideline that I say to myself,... Continue Reading →
The Hawthorne Effect: Does Your Dog Try Harder Because You’re Watching?
Yes. No. Maybe. It depends. Got all our bases covered? Good. What is the Hawthorne Effect? The name comes from studies conducted at the Hawthorne Works factory, studies that discovered worker productivity increased simply because workers knew they were being observed, not because they were working in better or worse conditions. This "observer effect" has... Continue Reading →
Celebrate The “Wild Music” Of Your Dog’s Search
When I think about why I give my time and energy to the practice of searching with dogs and humans, I know it is because I see a great opportunity for humans to be transformed by the experience. And, if humans can be transformed through a deep and mysterious connection with their dogs, maybe there... Continue Reading →
Tao Te Dog Of The Day
Verse 78 is our random verse for the day: Under heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water. Yet for attacking the solid and strong, nothing is better; It has no equal. The weak can overcome the strong; The supple can overcome the stiff. Under heaven everyone knows this, Yet no one puts it... Continue Reading →
Moving At The Right Speed In Today’s Fast-Paced Scent Work World
Entrenched myth: A threat-filled world favors the speedy; you’re either the quick or the dead. Contrary finding: The idea that leading in a “fast world” always requires “fast decisions” and “fast action”—and that we should embrace an overall ethos of “Fast! Fast! Fast!”—is a good way to get killed. 10X leaders figure out when to... Continue Reading →
Tao Te Dog Of The Day
Today, I randomly flipped to verse 48 of the Tao Te Ching. It goes like this: In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, ever day something is dropped. Less and less is done Until non-action is achieved. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. The world... Continue Reading →
Trapping A Mind In 64 (Squares) Soccer Dots
Links in this post use affiliate marketing, which helps you help the blog with your purchase. You can also support the blog directly In a recent interview on the Andrew Huberman podcast, author (and master) of "The Art of Learning" Josh Waitzkin spoke these words: "trapping a mind in 64 squares." He was referencing the... Continue Reading →
nosePlay: Part 2
When you click on the links in these posts your purchases help support this blog. You can also support the blog by clicking here. In nosePlay: Part 1, we took a peek at Stuart Brown's book Play and learned about the properties of play (although Brown would rather not define play), the "wheel of play",... Continue Reading →
nosePLAY: Part 1
When you click on the links in these posts your purchases help support this blog. You can also support the blog by clicking here. What is one of your favorite childhood play memories? Mine is from my youth in West Fargo, North Dakota. We had a small tool shed in the backyard with a shingled... Continue Reading →
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