I am very pleased to see that nowadays more people are teaching the importance of taking their horse’s opinion into account during the training process.
When I was a kid and working at a riding school owned by dressage trainers it was a golden rule not to rein back a horse until it was well established in all the forward paces and shoulder in.
I have encountered a few instances where the goal of perfection has hindered its achievement. You might think that doesn’t make sense. You might think that if we don’t aim for perfection, how will we achieve it?
There are many things I want my horse to be good at, but there are a few things I need my horse to be brilliant at. There are some things that I feel I can’t compromise on.
Dave Dunning and Justin Kruger are American social psychologists and researchers who spent many years establishing a principle that says, “The more incompetent a person is the less incompetent they think they are.”
