Fill two identical buckets with “cold water”, and one bucket with “warm water” keep the warm water bucket “out of view” (don’t let your boi see you filling the buckets), have your boi strip naked and tell him “There is a bucket filled with cold water, and a bucket filled with warm water, choose one”.
If he points to one of the cold water buckets he loses and gets it tipped on him. If he says “the warm one”, he wins the challenge and gets the warm bucket poured on him. Your instruction didn’t say to point to a bucket it said to choose one from the options “cold/warm”. Strictly speaking, it’s an easy challenge but you’ll find most people have a lot of difficulty in understanding the challenge or getting the point, however after they manage to work it out, it becomes a very valuable illustration of why you should not try to interpret instructions.
This challenge can be modified by giving a choice of any number of “unpleasant” options, eg. choose a mug one has raw egg one has milk, choose a box one has a punishment one has a reward. Each time they point instead of selecting the option they get punished.
The exercise is to get him thinking literally about your instructions, instead of “interpreting them”. Exercises like this will help to condition him to follow your instructions more precisely, instead of thinking freely and modifying your orders.
TIP: Reinforce “literal” execution of instructions as a rule. If you say wipe the table down with “that” rag and he uses a different rag, then punish him for not doing as he was told. By not doing precisely as he is told he is thinking for you and therefore challenging your authority.
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THE BUCKET CHALLENGE
Fill two identical buckets with “cold water”, and one bucket with “warm water” keep the warm water bucket “out of view” (don’t let your boi see you filling the buckets), have your boi strip naked and tell him “There is a bucket filled with cold water, and a bucket filled with warm water, choose one”.
If he points to one of the cold water buckets he loses and gets it tipped on him. If he says “the warm one”, he wins the challenge and gets the warm bucket poured on him. Your instruction didn’t say to point to a bucket it said to choose one from the options “cold/warm”. Strictly speaking, it’s an easy challenge but you’ll find most people have a lot of difficulty in understanding the challenge or getting the point, however after they manage to work it out, it becomes a very valuable illustration of why you should not try to interpret instructions.
This challenge can be modified by giving a choice of any number of “unpleasant” options, eg. choose a mug one has raw egg one has milk, choose a box one has a punishment one has a reward. Each time they point instead of selecting the option they get punished.
The exercise is to get him thinking literally about your instructions, instead of “interpreting them”. Exercises like this will help to condition him to follow your instructions more precisely, instead of thinking freely and modifying your orders.
TIP: Reinforce “literal” execution of instructions as a rule. If you say wipe the table down with “that” rag and he uses a different rag, then punish him for not doing as he was told. By not doing precisely as he is told he is thinking for you and therefore challenging your authority.