If you can do that you avoid the pitfalls of your horse just learning a job. Instead, they learn to work with you and trust your ideas with every step. If you only teach a horse to do jobs you are only teaching tricks and they will fail you when the circumstances change.
I could list very many sources that inspired my horsemanship that had nothing to do with horses, but at the same time said bucket loads about working with horses.
It is important that we take advantage of the experience and mistakes that others have made in learning to be good horse people. They can save us from repeating the terrible mistakes of past generations.
It is widely agreed that every time we interact with our horses we are teaching them something. Sometimes we are teaching them what we want them to learn and sometimes it is the opposite. But what do we mean when we say a horse has “learned” something?
