Horses Never Lie, 2nd Edition

The Heart of Passive Leadership

By: Mark Rashid

Narrated by: Dan Lawson

Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

A revolutionary approach to the techniques of working with horses, by a renowned instructor.

In Horses Never Lie, renowned horse trainer Mark Rashid challenges the conventional wisdom of "alpha leadership" and teaches the listener to become a "passive leader" - a counterpart to the kind of horse other members of a herd choose to associate with and to follow. Applying Rashid’s principles and techniques helps cultivate horse personalities that are responsive and dependable regardless of the rider. Reliving Rashid’s experiences with him, you will come to feel the same sort of compassion and appreciation for your horses that you do for the people in your life. This new edition features added introductory notes for each chapter that contribute to a more complete understanding of Rashid’s methods and philosophy.

©1993, 2010 Mark Rashid (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

MUST READ! 10/10

This book is much more than just a story about a horse trainer. It is about relationship and communication, akin to coaching and parenting. Horses are such beautiful and intelligent creatures; it's up to us to listen to what they have to say. The listener will gain valuable insight, be entertained, and find it touching all at the same time. I absolutely loved it all.

The ONLY negative is the reader who seemed to make enunciation the top priority. Rather than having naturally clear diction, it seems very obvious that he took speech training to the extreme, to the point of annoyance. What a shame.

great book every horse owner should hear

Loved it. Great stories to solidify the thoughts. Every horse owner should hear this. It all makes so much sense. This will help me with all my horses.

Great book. Bad reader.

The content was insightful and eye opening. Mark writes a wonderful story. Zero compliants.

The reader/ actor over-enunciated everything. Monotone and expressing the wrong parts of the sentence made it hard to follow. He mispronounced equine specific words and strained throughout the book.

If had another option I would have deleted the book and picked someone else to read it. I will not buy anything he reads again.

great story bad narrator

as always with Mark Rashid, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and its stories. with that said, the narration was TERRIBLE. if I hadn't read 2 of his previous books with another narrator I may not have continued with his books on audible. this narrator is so robotic! audible should redo this one.

Insightful perspective

it is good to know horse trainers make mistakes just like the rest of us.

wonderful insight and truth!

I loved it! I'm a lifetime horse owner trainer and learned so much! Read allofthem!

Book is great.

I enjoyed the book. I gained additional knowledge I didn't have. I have a better understanding of my horses.

learned lots

first time reading this author. love his insights. gifted writer as well.
narrator was definitely clear to hear and understand. He reads haltingly not smoothly, but got used to him after a while.

Great book, awkward narrator

I really enjoyed listening to this book, but I felt that the narrator did a shoddy job of living up to the feeling that Mark Rashid had put into his book. Dan Lawson's narration makes the book sound as though it is written by a young, inexperienced person, not an older midwestern gentleman and rancher. For some reason this caused some of the verbiage to sound really jarring and as though the words were badly chosen, when obviously it is just how Mark Rashid speaks and thinks. For instance, Rashid talks about his adult children, which Lawson sounds too young to have.

The narration aside, I felt it was a very good book for horse lovers to read, whether you are into training or not. It also can be seen as a book for leaders in general, as an allegory for how much it can benefit a leader of horses or people to be calm, predictable, and reliable. Rashid explains how the relationship between horses and people can be, and he clearly has a greater insight into horse body language than the average person. In the book he talks about how horses generally want to please - they are social creatures. He also mentions a very important point, which runs as a theme throughout the book - horses are designed to expend as little energy as necessary in order to survive when a predator comes. A horse that seems lazy really is just being smart, from his perspective.

All in all, a good book, which I definitely recommend if you love horses.

Bad Narrator

This is my 4th book written by Mark Rashid, on Audio books
While all 4 were great books, the narrator on Horses Never Lie, was so bad that I struggled to finish listening to it. Very robotic and seemed like the very first read through.
Go back to Mike Chamberlin or Kevin Young.
Mike Chamberlin, made me feel like I was being told a story live, not having a book read to me.