"Amy Sutherland, Exotic Animal Trainer, - "The central lesson I learned from exotic animal trainers is that I should reward behavior I like and ignore behavior I don't. After all, you don't get a sea lion to balance a ball on the end of its nose by nagging. The same goes for the American husband.""
This is all well and good for enforcing behaviours that a person could naturally fall into, but what if you wanted to someone to do something they had never done before?
> a manual and a philosophy for solving the problems in your life caused by
> other's behavior, whether it is your husband, your children, your pets, or
> your co-workers
>
> - Amazon reviewer
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[ 2.0 ms ] story [ 21.5 ms ] thread"Amy Sutherland, Exotic Animal Trainer, - "The central lesson I learned from exotic animal trainers is that I should reward behavior I like and ignore behavior I don't. After all, you don't get a sea lion to balance a ball on the end of its nose by nagging. The same goes for the American husband.""
http://www.nirandfar.com/2012/04/billion-dollar-mind-trick.h...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3881370
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life and Businesshttp://www.amzn.com/1400069289
Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Traininghttp://www.amzn.com/1860542387