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.
Passion is Progress
Often times it feels like it takes a lot of effort just to stay passionate about your goals. You understand what it takes to be your best and you understand that consistent practice makes perfect, but over time the fun and excitement you once felt starts to decline and this can dramatically effect your progress. This feeling also begins to amplify in intensity once you progress to a higher skill level, everything becomes more optimized and mistakes must be snuffed out entirely, requiring you to be more disciplined and efficient. It makes me wonder if too much passion is even important in achieving your goals in the first place.
Ex-pro Overwatch player Daniel “Dafran” Francesca responded to a question I once asked him about maintaining consistency in high level play: “Once you stop feeling anything, that’s when you start really getting good.”
Bleak.
I guess the takeaway here is to keep your passion disconnected from your emotions? I think there should be a balance, but how to achieve that is entirely up to you and your personality. Always try your hardest to keep the passion alive and always be true to yourself.
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 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.