Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training, Etiology and Assessment of Behavior Problems Quotes

“Adaptive learners expect to succeed (hopeful), whereas maladaptive learners expect to fail (hopeless). Adaptive learning promotes confidence, well-being, and an elated mood, whereas maladaptive learning saddles dogs with apprehensiveness, worry, insecurity, and generalized anxiety. Dogs that generally expect to fail are constrained to exist in a small corner of life where they feel most secure and likely to succeed. Dogs”
― Steve Lindsay, Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training, Etiology and Assessment of Behavior Problems