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Presumably if you are on TL, you've spent a not-insignificant portion of your life playing the Starcraft franchise. I'm sure you don't think all those hours were in vain, but what have you learned or gotten out of SC that you can take away to other parts of your life.
Personally, I think I've learned a few things:
Multi-tasking: I used to think I knew how to multi-task. Then someone told me that multi-tasking is actually wasting time... but after getting a lot better at SC2, I've transitioned "timings" into my everyday life. Like cutting down significantly the time it takes to do a list of tasks and being able to accomplish more. This has lead to what some people may call "bad habits" like catching up on GSL games during classes...
Increased decision-making time: I was never tentative, but playing RTS games has noticeably increased my ability to take in a lot of information at once and process it in a way that I can make a good decision. When working in a group, I'm almost always the first to make a suggestion and I'm more confident in my analysis.
Those are the two that I see the most, how about you guys?
 
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I've learned that there will always be people better than me at everything I do, but I can still improve at things just for myself.
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I have learned that i'm terrible and that i should be humble.
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Without starcraft my mind is slow as fuck, with starcraft I go to work with stimpack for the next 8 hours. It's true!
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The most important thing anyone can get out of playing a ridiculously hard game like Starcraft isn't something specific like multitasking or hand eye coordination, it's self motivation: that drive to push yourself to improve for no reason except to just be better than you were before.
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In Starcraft, you learn from your mistakes. Lose a game that you felt like you should have won? You watch the replay and look to see what you could have done better, then the next time you're in that exact situation, you do the right thing and go on to win the game.
Same exact thing applies to real life. You're not going to end out on top in every situation, you're going to make mistakes. But as long as you acknowledge as much and learn from your mistakes, you're going to end up a better person in the future.
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Papua New Guinea152 Posts
The most important thing anyone can get out of playing a ridiculously hard game like Starcraft isn't something specific like multitasking or hand eye coordination, it's self motivation: that drive to push yourself to improve for no reason except to just be better than you were before.
One of the truest, most eloquent and most inspirational words I have ever seen on this website!!! I bow to your wisdom, Sir!!!
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United States2096 Posts
On November 09 2010 12:18 GoShox wrote:
In Starcraft, you learn from your mistakes. Lose a game that you felt like you should have won? You watch the replay and look to see what you could have done better, then the next time you're in that exact situation, you do the right thing and go on to win the game.
Same exact thing applies to real life. You're not going to end out on top in every situation, you're going to make mistakes. But as long as you acknowledge as much and learn from your mistakes, you're going to end up a better person in the future.
Ditto for me. Also, I used to be a pretty sore loser when it came to sports and stuff, but Broodwar pretty much beat that out of me after a while.
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You know how when you scout a protoss base and see nothing but a nexus? It's like you instantly know that he has a gateway or forge somewhere on the map without even scouting it.
In starcraft you learn to look and know what is around you based on what you are able to see and what you are not able to see. And to make better decisions based on that knowledge. If something seems to good to be true it probably is. If something seems to hard but others are able to do it, try looking at it from a different direction.
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On November 09 2010 11:54 ChThoniC wrote:
Multi-tasking: I used to think I knew how to multi-task. Then someone told me that multi-tasking is actually wasting time... but after getting a lot better at SC2, I've transitioned "timings" into my everyday life. Like cutting down significantly the time it takes to do a list of tasks and being able to accomplish more. This has lead to what some people may call "bad habits" like catching up on GSL games during classes...
I always have tried to multi-task stuff, like optimal relative timing when cooking a meal, or throwing something in to the microwave and going to the washroom so that the microwave would finish when I got out XD with a lot of stuff passed two instances, though, I'd often screw-up -- for instance, at my old just I'd used to have to do a lot during the cash-out period, including brew coffee. I'd manually have to stop the coffee at a certain time so it wouldn't over-flow. I'd start coffee, try to get three other things down, then make it back and manually stop the coffee.
It over-flowed a few times XP
Stuff like that I've gotten a LOT better at, and almost never mess-up, since Starcraft has forced me to keep conscious of all responsibilities. I feel I'm generally quicker-thinking these days, too.
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