Pavlov and my dog

When Max the dog was a puppy, we had a big snow storm. Max and I went into the back yard and wrestled like crazy.

10 years later, Max is an old man dog now, but snow and Jonathan in the back yard still means – attack. He was bounding around our back yard through the knee deep snow today like he was a puppy.

In one instance of wrestling he had perfect learning and a stimulus response loop was created. Jonathan and snow in the back yard means all out wrestling – always.

We have perfect learning and stimulus response loops too. Some of them are useful and some of them cause us big problems.

A very common stimulus response loop is that many people automatically feel bad when they hear “no”. This makes selling and asking for what we want much harder and scarier than they need to be.

This stimulus response loop, like all stimulus response loops, can be reprogrammed. And, that isn’t going to happen by accident. It is going to take some effort on our part.

Much Love,

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