Why Dogs Don’t Talk

Do you think changing people is hard? I don’t think it is.

At age three, my parents bundled me up, put me on a refugee freighter and our family came to Canada. A big change from post war Germany, but all of us looked forward to our new home! Canada. That was a big change and it was easy!

When I was five, I went to school and assume, I spoke English. Don’t remember learning English, but also don’t remember having any problems. No ESL teacher, no special attention. I was a kid. Kids pickup whatever language is around them in about 15 min. That was a big change and it was easy!

On the morning of my 16th birthday at 7:50 am I was at the motor vehicle branch to get my driver’s licence. Two hours later I was a licensed driver. My life changed. I was driving everywhere. No more buses, walking, or hitchhiking. That was a big change and it was easy!

What about marriage, cell phones, the internet, ATMs, changing jobs? Well, there is a best seller management book that caught my attention. Entitled “Switch, - how to change things when change is hard.” By Chip and Dan Heath. Two brothers both teaching in universities. Nicely written, two smart young guys. The big idea is that to say change is hard, doesn’t reflect what’s going on. Change turns out to be easy, if it’s the change you want. Change is difficult if it’s not what you want. So it’s not about change.

They tell a story about the conflict between the emotional and logical mind. Logic is the rider. Emotion the elephant. Nice picture, yes? The rider gets tired directing the elephant. The rider wants a beach body. The elephant wants another Oreo.

You get the idea, read the book. Stop with the logic. Emotions move people. The reason you can’t change people is because you’re using your head. The reason marriages fail is because people go to counsellors who make them talk. When couples shut up, and simply act nice to each other the marriage will be saved. Emotions move logical people. Not logic.

Sept. 15th is entitled, “I love my job, I hate you.” I’m going to teach you how to change your people and make them think it was easy! Can’t we just all get along? You bet we can and I’ll show you how.

At the end of the seminar you’ll say, “that was a big change, - and that was easy. I can do that.”

See you for breakfast,
Wolfgang

p.s Talking is an industry, it’ not a solution. I believe dogs can talk, but they choose not to. If dogs could talk, the SPCA would be overflowing with homeless dogs. Dogs know that and that's why dogs don't talk.

Talking is how sincerity is lost. Your dog is his actions, period. Words would only mess that up. Just look at us humans.