Forget about training your dog

"My words are very easy to understand and very easy to put into practice
Yet no one in the world understands them or puts them into practice." (Tao Te Ching)

With due respect, there is no need. The drama of "muddling through" keeps things interesting. Or perhaps the reward for the work involved -- discipline required to put anything "into practice" -- is not clear enough. A well-trained dog is a joy, we are told, yet an untrained dog may be a) not that much trouble, b) still a joy, if a lesser one, and c) a guarantee of repeated, regular occassions in which to act out our feelings of failure, anxiety, anger, frustration, remorse, rebellion, carelessness, playfulness, freedom, in a world where there are few guarantees of any sort.