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Frostfire
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States419 Posts
February 16 2012 13:59 GMT
#21
On February 16 2012 18:28 avilo wrote:
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On February 16 2012 16:54 Frostfire wrote:
On February 16 2012 16:47 vileIllusion wrote:
Starcraft is more important to me than school. My whole life revolves around making time for this. What is my schedule btw? kind of confused. GL

By schedule I just mean when you play and how long you play. I start after I get home from school and end so I get 4 hours of sleep for the next day. Sc2 > school, until my GPA drops under B average. I will do whatever it takes to maintain a B average, as I want to go to the highschool previously mentioned.
Thanks for commenting by the way, you're one of my favorite players, means a lot even if you don't approve.


Tbh, I think you are playing way too much right now for where you are at. Even a lot of korean pros / foreigners to not practice 10 hours a day because over practicing is actually detrimental and you will not learn as fast at a certain point. It also depends on the type of person you are as well.

Most people will probably tell you that as it's *somewhat* obvious that too much practice is bad. I would say the only real benefit 10+ hours of practice gives you is for your muscle memory+mechanical skill at the game. In terms of learning new things, or adding things to your game i'd say 4-6 hours is when your mind is really fresh and able to pick up new things and help you develop SC mentally.

I can tell you you have the absolute wrong mentality about your grades too btw. I'm sure your parents or whoever has said to keep up grades, etc. but saying "...until my GPA drops under B average" is not good. You want all A's trust me. In terms of mindset for going pro + in terms of money. If you look at most SC2 "pros" or known names, there's a common thing you'll notice with every one of them - they are all incredibly intelligent in one way or another. It's not a coincidence that a lot of the GMS, pros, etc. all are uber smart, working on college degrees (or have one already), or have really high GPAs + good grades.

Yeh, that's not 100% but it seems like it's a common theme that most high level players are really smart people and did well in school. SC2 requires you to analyze a lot, and have very good critical thinking skills, so at your age even though you're putting a lot of effort into improving your muscle memory/mechanics with your 10 hour practice, if you are not able to even keep straight A's in high school...it does not bode well for your future dream of "being a pro."

This is the time in your life to really develop your mind, develop some social life in school, find interests (obviously SC2 is the main one) and develop yourself physically as well. So if you want to really "go pro" in SC2 you have to develop your mind, and critical thinking skills, and yourself mentally which is what learning in school will allow you to do! So keep straight A's.

Also, let me advise you some and share from my personal experience/lessons learned...getting those straight A's in high school is worth *THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS* LET ME EMPHASIZE PLEASE - THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.

Whether you anticipate going to college or not, guess what? If you can maintain a perfect record and 4.0 GPA or anything close, then you can get college scholarships worth THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. So even if you develop an interest that you like better than SC2 in the future, guess what! You have a chance to get FREE MONEY and pursue that field of learning in college! That is only icing on the cake, as imo the most important thing for you to do right now is develop your mind!

So instead of "until my GPA drops under B average" you need to change your mind set to, "I am keeping my grades 100% A's." Another added bonus to this besides learning in school to develop your mind + possibly having THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS in potential scholarships...is you get TIME. TIME TIME TIME! Let me explain what I mean by this.

You want to "go pro?" right? Well getting those high grades ezmode means you have more time to do SC, and in the future you will potentially have to work less hours because if you did want to get a college degree, guess what? Like I said before, colleges have scholarships and are looking for high achievers and such to give those thousands of dollars worth of tuission money to. And getting free money means you do not have to spend time doing an outside job, which means more time for SC2 if you do go the college route!

Another thing is the stress of bad grades and the stress of needing to stay above water in terms of grades will make you play WORSE SC2. I managed to just get through the last semesters of my college academic life but I could have had 100x less stress if I had been able to prioritize my studies even more. The mental stress of getting grades, especially if you are a procrastinator or whatever, WILL make you play worse SC2, and make it more difficult for you to learn SC2 quickly.

By keeping straight A's and being "gosu" at your studies, finishing school projects EARLY, and staying on top of it during high school...you'll find you'll have "more time" available to you than if you start letting your grades slip and suddenly you are getting mentally divided between SC2 time/study time, because you're just barely making the grades you need, which also then ends up impacting your studies negatively, and so on and so on...so keep your grades up A A A A A STRAIGHT A not "until GPA under B average" - DO NOT LET IT HAPPEN!

If you are a masters player, are you really going to just say "until I drop out of masters?" You said you're a diamond player right now...and you basically have the mindset of "i'll only start trying hard 'until I fall out of diamond'"? You're subconsciously setting yourself up to not succeed with your "until my GPA drops under B average." You will not go pro EVER like that. What i'm basically telling you is, no, you are not actually focusing on school currently with that attitude, so no, you will never be pro like that.

You see, you have to develop your mind in school, and get the grades, or you will end up making it infinitely more difficult for yourself to "go pro" in SC2.

Your attitude matters a lot. If you're only going to do what it takes to have a B average in school, I guess you're only willing to do what it takes to be an average SC2 player as well.

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Thought I would share that advice with you from the perspective of someone who has already completed high school/college and is also "going pro" in SC2 as well. I made a lot of mistakes in my prioritizing of school/getting grades at the end of high school and my last two years of college, and it ended up making me waste years of my life + thousands of dollars that could have been put towards SC2/practice/anything else, so I hope you do not make the same mistakes I made and keep thinking "im gonna go pro SC2" and then realize your academics/learning are way more important right now in your life and will ALLOW you easier access to go pro if you really want to!


Also, you need sleep. 4 hrs is not enough. You will NEVER. Never. Go pro with only 4 hours of sleep. Did you read? You are never going to become a pro in your lifetime with 4 hrs of sleep. Never. Stop thinking you will. You will not. Ever.

7-8 hrs though per night...you open up the possibility.






Thankyouthankyouthankyou.
I just thought B average would be enough, but ill take your advice.
Also, i thought since i already only slept for mqybe 6 hrs a night, 4 wouldnt be that big of a change.
Sry for mistakes, im on my phone
"In solitude, we are least alone"
Frostfire
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States419 Posts
February 16 2012 14:15 GMT
#22
On February 16 2012 19:12 zOula... wrote:
You may want to consider updating your other "road to pro" blog instead of posting a new one of these every few days, especially if its only going to be a few sentences. Maybe you could post some of your replays from the day as well?

Also, you seriously need to sleep more than 4 hours a night. Are you kidding me? You might be able to make it a few nights with only 4 hours sleep...but you cannot maintain that in the long run.

Ah yes, I will start updating now probably once every 2 weeks, because I realize I am clogging up the blogs section with things people probably don't want to see.

Regarding the replays, I actually will start streaming, today. I will bump this thread when I do.

I thought that 4 hours wouldn't be very bad since I already only got about 6, but after reading Avilo's post, I need to find another way.

This game is more important to me than anything else (besides school), I would sacrifice everything (but school) to get to be pro. People don't seem to realize that I am in love with this game.
Glhf
"In solitude, we are least alone"
Wortie
Profile Joined September 2011
Netherlands212 Posts
February 16 2012 16:30 GMT
#23
Hey guys, I'm going pro too. Please give me attention.
Frostfire
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States419 Posts
February 16 2012 17:38 GMT
#24
On February 17 2012 01:30 Wortie wrote:
Hey guys, I'm going pro too. Please give me attention.

I lold. Anyways, this needs to stop being bumped. I dont want to look like a huge attention whore.
"In solitude, we are least alone"
LuckyFool
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States9015 Posts
February 16 2012 17:55 GMT
#25
Epic post Avilo I agree. I actually cruised as a B student through college. Probably because I played too much bw/sc2 beta. :D
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32046 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-16 20:34:06
February 16 2012 20:33 GMT
#26
On February 17 2012 02:38 Frostfire wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 17 2012 01:30 Wortie wrote:
Hey guys, I'm going pro too. Please give me attention.

I lold. Anyways, this needs to stop being bumped. I dont want to look like a huge attention whore.


Stop making new blogs about the same topic and keep all your stuff in one or just don't post then?

this thing has no content at all, and should have just been in your first topic instead of pushing down better blogs
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Flaccid
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
8835 Posts
February 16 2012 20:57 GMT
#27
What makes this 'official'?
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Swede
Profile Joined June 2010
New Zealand853 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-16 22:25:13
February 16 2012 22:23 GMT
#28
Probably don't need to harp on about it but... Sleeping less than 8 hours a night by choice is retarded. I'm not sure how old you are, but by the sound of it you're young. Sleep is SO IMPORTANT at a young age. It's important in general of course, but you're still at the developmental part of your life, and sleep is critical to properly developing.

DON'T sacrifice sleep.

On another note, there's this unfortunately common idea here on TL that hard work is all it takes to go pro, but it's not. Why are there players with 5000 games in Bronze? Why are there players with 20 games in Masters? Obviously this is not scientific evidence or anything, but it demonstrates my point (in a roundabout way): some people are just not cut out to be good at Starcraft. Maybe you are, maybe you aren't. But don't blindly believe that you are until you see evidence that you are. It sucks, but life won't always give you the tools to be good at what you want to be good at.

Keep playing Starcraft. Keep trying to improve. But set reasonable goals. Get to Masters, then high Masters, then Grandmasters if you can, and THEN start thinking about going pro. But follow Avilo's advice too: maintain your grades, build friendships and develop your mind. These things are long term investments, and should therefore take priority.
Jedclark
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United Kingdom903 Posts
February 16 2012 23:29 GMT
#29
Sleep is just as important to getting better as the actual playing is. Sleeping for 4 hours a night will make you groggy, and perhaps you won't want to play as much in that state. Plus you won't be able to concentrate with that much sleep.

Also, stop posting in this blog and play!
"They make it so scrubnubs can PM me. They make it so I can't ignore scrubnubs!" - "I'm gonna show you how great I am." MKP fan since GSL Open Season 2 #hipsternerd
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