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When Everything Clicks: The Power Of Judgment-Free Learning

There can be a lot of psychological noise involved in learning. And mental chit chat can make learning hard. One solution, silence it with a click.
The clicker became a popular tool for dog training in the 1980s. Today, it has also caught on with humans--helping people to become better dancers, fishermen, golfers, and now, surgeons.

Frisbee coach Martin Levy is a big fan of . He uses it to train his border collies to perform complex jumps and twirls on the Frisbee field. In 2012, after successfully using a clicker to teach his

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