EPTFor instance, today I lost a rough game vs a protoss that I clearly had control of but lost it in the end. So what did I do? I went outside and de-stressed a little. When I was out on my back deck, I sat in a chair and looked up at the trees above me. I noticed a squirrel moving around jumping branch by branch to look for acorns or something I guess.
At that moment for some strange reason, I realized why I keep going back to the game, and why I keep trying to get better. Take a look at the squirrel, why does he risk his life jumping across thin branches clinging on for dear life to search for acorns? Because he is hungry and determined to achieve his goal by retrieving some.
Think about it...
Aren't we as Starcraft players similar to that same squirrel?
We throw ourselves out into the game and attempt to climb the ladder and are constantly seeking improvement. We cling on to the hope that we can one day become professional just like the way the squirrel clings onto the thin, flimsy branch of a tree. Improvement is our acorn.
When a squirrel takes on the tedious of task of exploring that tree for its goods, and there are none there, does it give up and go home hungered? No, it simply moves onto a different tree searching around, and looking in places it would not last time. This is just like when we begin to seek advice and new, different build orders in Starcraft.
We simply cannot leave ourselves existing on an acorn-less tree, we have to always seek improvement and flow with the changing tides of the game. That is what Starcraft players do, they improve, improvise, and unfold the ignored creativity inside of their minds.
This may seem like an odd post, but I just wanted to share it with you guys. Goodluck, have fun, and whenever it seems as though you cannot grow any further, just change to a new tree
