It seems a willingness, if lacking when a horse is first handled and trained, can be taught, encouraged, and nurtured by the human. Is work ethic similar…
I have been thinking, if I were Santa, what is the one training skill I would want to give every horse person for Christmas? Many things come to mind - feel, patience, kindness, a questioning mind, etc.
While it is possible to have correctness and mental softness, it is NOT automatically true that one leads to the other. Yet so many instructors and trainers talk as if you can’t have one without the other.
