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WikidSik
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Canada382 Posts
December 02 2012 02:18 GMT
#1
Hey TL, something has been bothering me lately. That is the topic of ambition vs love of <insert activity here>. I want to know how people on Teamliquid (the greatest group of ppl ever) deal with ambition. Whats there to deal with you ask? Personally for me, I become EXTREMELY ANXIOUS when i think about some sort of benchmark I want to achieve, for example, obtaining a 4.0 gpa or reaching masters in sc2. The anxiety becomes so great that my brain freezes (similar to brain freeze when eating ice cream too fast), my heart rate goes through the roof, breathing becomes difficult, my legs cramp, I can do simple actions such as click buttons or write things. However, when I just forget about my goals, and just do, I get so good (relatively, from anxious me) Im sometimes scared of my potential.

Although I understand that you have to do things cuz you like them, I also dont want my life to be ambitionless, that is, I want to feel accomplishment by reaching certain benchmarks. Since I know there are alot of people here that are able to obtain certain measurements through practice (like obtaining a 4.0 gpa or reaching masters), how do you deal with this anxiety? What i am not looking for are remedies, such as "work out more" or "eat better" cuz im pretty good with that. What I am looking for is a paradigm shift in my thinking about goal setting and maybe how i am perceiving living life.

Discuss away pl0x.

PS - TL IS AWESOME mgomgomgomgomgogm D:

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Iv been here for 5.5 years. My other accounts are named "Sonu" and "Dalroti" || I had some more but I cant find them XD || known in sc2 as "Sonu"
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Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Hong Kong4685 Posts
December 02 2012 04:15 GMT
#2
Don't think about the result. Focus on the task at hand.

I stopped getting nervous at tournaments after realizing that you perform your best thinking that.
Oracle comes in, Scvs go down, never a miscommunication.
DragonflySC2
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States146 Posts
December 02 2012 06:57 GMT
#3
I'm kind of having the same problem.

I'm currently high diamond in SC2 and I want to reach master's, but I also get distracted easily by league of legends because I like being able to talk to (and blame :D ) others while I'm playing. When going from bronze to diamond with each race, which was quite the struggle... I just kept watching things that inspired me whether it be starcraft related or not, and told myself that I wanted it badly.

Eric Thomas’ quote. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to BREATHE, then you will be successful.”

I've had a hard time getting to that point still to this very day. I am pretty unsure of what I want from life, and what I want to put into it. Don't force it though, just let it happen.
Learn from your losses, parade your wins
Artisian
Profile Joined October 2010
United States115 Posts
December 02 2012 07:26 GMT
#4
Positive visualization and mental rehearsals seem to fix the anxiety for me. If I have a role model (imaginary me) to follow, things get much easier. Kinda like how doing an embarrassing dance in a group is infinitely easier than doing it alone, having the mental image to copy makes things seem more doable.
Supply is a conspiracy against me...
WikidSik
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Canada382 Posts
December 02 2012 15:34 GMT
#5
Thnx for the responses guys. I was talking to another friend of mine about this, and one thing that did kinda help was that he just does stuff and hopes for the best. And it makes sense. I mean, going into a starcraft game, can you predict the outcome (not even FlaSh in BW won 100.00000000% of the time, no matter how metagaming or poker esq his strats are). Same thing witha test in school, can you predict all the questions taht will be on the test? If yes, then you can predict your grades, otherwise you cant. No matter how hard you tell yourself to be determined, its just something you can not predict. Also, in emergency situations, where I feel I focus the best, you cant deal with the situations trying to achieve a certain outcome, you just deal with the problem at hand and are just glad that you are able to solve it if you can.
Iv been here for 5.5 years. My other accounts are named "Sonu" and "Dalroti" || I had some more but I cant find them XD || known in sc2 as "Sonu"
meteorskunk
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada546 Posts
December 02 2012 15:41 GMT
#6
You have to want it instead of needing it. If you need it, it is more difficult to take action because there is too much risk in failure. If the possibility of failure is both acknowledged and hated, that is ideal.

If you see clearly what and why you want it, and at the same time feel a real desire in your heart then even if you fail it is a success, hence the quote "CLEAR EYES
FULL HEARTS


----CAN't LOOOOOOSE!!!"

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YoruWaAkeru
Profile Joined April 2012
41 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-02 16:28:56
December 02 2012 16:26 GMT
#7
Get inspiration and visualise the things you want, work with your imagination and actually you won't feel like you're working. You'll do what you do because you have this "fire in your eyes" and like to do what you do. It's like you hate math at school, but you do the task, because you know that it leads you where you want to be in the future.
When you feel like "this thing is wearing me down" then you're going to the wrong direction. There are lot of people who are just working hard and going nowhere in life because they've missing the key, the imagination. Don't be just a hamster in the cage and running around with no brain and don't be hard on yourself.
fasgas
Profile Joined January 2013
5 Posts
January 31 2013 07:17 GMT
#8
I know this guy in real life, all he does is go back on his word. He also is a closet homosexual. That being said, he's not a gamer and never will be. His problem is that he's failing cause he ignores things.
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