The Horse Training Power of “WANT”
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And Curry provides a great insight into life and your horses:
It’s invisible.
It’s hard to measure.
But if you get it…you can move
mountains.
What is it?
Desire. (a.k.a “Want”)
Before I describe its use with horses,
let me give you the human perspective.
Have you really considered why people
do things?
What makes a teenager do his chores
one day…without asking…yet the day before you couldn’t
blow him off the couch with dynamite?
Desire.
Want.
Want of what?
Whatever it was he wanted.
I know that sounds a bit vague, but stay with me here.
I once heard a story of want that epitomizes what I’m saying.
A friend of mine was in his high rise
apartment.
It was a blizzard outside.
It was so bad, no one should be in it.
He went to the window to watch the snow fly and count his
lucky stars he wasn’t in it.
As he gazed outside, he watched a man
come out of the apartment complex across from him.
Fighting the wind and grimacing from
being peppered in the face by blinding snow pellets,
the man got to his car.
He struggled to open it.
He started it to warm it up.
He got back out and scraped the ice and snow off the
windows before driving away.
When he finished, he sat back in the
car as it warmed up.
Within a few minutes, he drove off.
You should know, the national weather
service warned people not to go anywhere.
Knowing all that my friend who watched
this guy fight the weather and get in his car to
leave asked a profound question:
“What did that guy
‘want’ so bad that
even the weather
didn’t stop him?”
Think about that.
What did the guy “WANT” so bad that
his desire trumped the misery of cold, the warnings
from the weather service, the possibility of
being stranded, and more?
What was it?
Well,…we’ll never know.
But something was obviously important
to him.
I believe that important thing he
was seeking was something he wanted.
That’s the power of want and how it
can move mountains.
Now knowing this, how can we apply that power
to horse training?
Why would we even want to?
We want to because we want them to
“want” to do something.
Just as powerful as the emotion of
“want” is…the opposite is just as powerful.
And if Mr. Horse doesn’t want to
do something then he becomes hard to catch.
He doesn’t spin well.
He doesn’t want to partner with you.
Yada, yada, yada.
So your job is to “make him want” it.
Here’s a for instance.
When we filmed Doug and Danie Hewlett
teaching Reining, Doug made this powerful point:
“One of the best ways to
to get a horse to stop
is to “NOT” stop.”
But wait! There’s more…
Then he said:
“Go for a long time
until you can feel
that horse ‘wanting’
to stop. Then stop”
BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Wanting” to stop.
Therein lies the horse training power
of the emotion of “want”.
Plus, if you want to know more of what
Doug and Danie reveal, click on the following:
Doug and Danie Hewlett TrainingDVD
Here’s another example of the power of want.
Once, Walt Disney needed an Abraham Lincoln
manikin for Walt Disney world.
When they hooked it up, the manikin had
jerky movements and didn’t look real.
Walt finally found someone to help them
get the manikin right.
But the guy was a renowned surgeon who
said he didn’t have time.
When Walt heard this, he told his staff
to: “Find out what he wants.”
“Huh?”, asked the staff. “What he wants?”
Walt said, “When you find out what he
wants, I’ll get him what he wants and then
he’ll help me with what I want.”
Turns out the surgeon wanted a new hospital.
Walt called up Lucille Ball, Desi Arnez,
and other rich and famous friends.
He got them to donate millions for the
new hospital.
The surgeon got what he wanted.
And…Walt got his manikin.
That, my friend, is the power of want – and
you can use it in horse training.
Ok… there ya go. Read about the Hewletts and their
excellent training. They teach so great methods.
Doug and Danie Hewlett TrainingDVD
Have a good week. Stay safe around your horses.
Charlie
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