Welcome to gee gee easy no ree dot com, an (((“ESPORTS” “COACHING” “ADVICE” “BLOG”))). The purpose of this site is to help you self-actualize an all-encompassing set of guidelines to improve your skills at competitive video games. Everything here is completely biased off of my own personal experiences and several years of competitive gaming as a functionally normal person. I am not a professional gamer nor am I medically qualified to give any deep takes on “““Esports psychology””” so if you find everything on this site to be complete bullshit, it’s justified, but, that also means you’re probably a shitter.
With all of that being said, I hope you take a lot of this stuff seriously because I really take this gaming shit serious. This site will be randomly updated whenever I feel like updating it until I ultimately stop paying for it. Look at the paragraph headers and only read whatever calls to your current struggles.
Never Give Up
To succeed in any of your pursuits, all you really need to do is keep going. Again and again you may constantly doubt your ability to get better at something because of consistent poor performance followed by extreme mental anguish. Just know that it’s normal to have these performance crashouts and that continued effort will regulate your performance; given enough time. Do not listen to ANYTHING anyone else has to say when you’re in a low period, and you’ll be fine. If you can convince yourself to just do the thing for a long time then it will work out.
The real challenge here is when you realize the thing you’re grinding might actually be a potential waste of time… should you keep going? Yes? Maybe? Who knows. Somebody else did, and somebody else will. Why? Who cares. Just keep going, or don’t, the choice is yours.
When seeking answers for your specific problem from an external source, whether it’s your terrible aim or lack of competent game-sense, always proceed with caution. Be wary of things like VOD Reviews, Aim Courses, Academies, Patreons and other forms of specific “Situational Coaching” because it is probably super retarded. Most games move too quickly and have millions of situational scenarios that dictate why the outcomes turned out the way they did. A short coaching session will only make you feel more stupid than you currently are; which is a “product” you can receive for free from a double digit IQ teenager at 3am in any of your losing ranked games.
Coaches are just people that want your attention and money; I too want your attention but prefer receiving it through a pretentiously styled coaching blog shrouded in thinly veiled irony.
Everything you need from a coach can be easily found on YouTube, sports psychology books and most importantly… yourself.
Coaching is Fake and Gay
Whenever you think to yourself, “I wish I had good aim” or “I wish my reaction time wasn’t slow” or “I wish I didn’t suck dick and balls” simply DON’T. I would say the most useful change to my mindset was understanding that good players do not think about these things.
A pro player does not wish to win, they just do. They do not envy the talent of others, they just practice to obtain it. Stop your ceaseless desire for more talent so when the monitor goes dark, you stop feeling disgusted at the reflection you see looking back at you.
When in Doubt, Don’t
You Know the Problem
You already know what it is you’re bad at, you just dont want to fix it. That is because often times we neglect the most simple, yet simultaneously difficult, advice: Just Play Better.
When your aim is bad, simply just shoot your targets better and practice. Do you have anger issues and tilt easy? Stop doing that then, go to therapy or get laid or something. Do you only play for an hour or so a day? Make the sacrifice and play more. If you really saw yourself from an outside perspective you would obviously see all the stupid shit you do that holds you back. Melting down your ego and actually working on these things is basically the only way to improve once you hit a plateau.
“This is stupid! Thats like telling a depressed person to just ‘be happy’!” It is stupid advice yes, but it’s not impossible advice. When you are backed into a corner and nothing you do is making you improve, you simply must find the answers in yourself and git gud.
Subjugation to the Sacrifice
Everything requires a sacrifice. To do one thing you must allocate time from one thing to another. The more time you give up the more you can focus on improvement, but, time is not the only thing you can sacrifice and the more things you sacrifice, the better you can become… This requires some strange explanations.
During my many grinds, I noticed that efficiency was one of the most important things that I focused on when I wanted to confirm that I was progressing. In this pursuit of maximum efficiency I would temporarily sacrifice the idea of improving at other skills. In Tennis, to improve my serve I would give up all notions of improving my backhand just to see how good at serving I could get. I obviously improved at serving and despite having basically quit tennis, my serve to this day is cemented as “solid at best”.
What I just described is literally just focused practice, which is applicable to anything you want to learn. Doing this in the mind and silencing all the extra thoughts is way more difficult though, and may require you to sacrifice… more.