EPTAt the same time I started to think about my not-much-impressive life I also jumped into SC2 multiplayer scene, and I realized after several matches, that I needed to do in SC2 the same that I need to do at my work: just improve.
But not improve because of simple osmosis, not because I play 100 games 1v1, not because I see the Day9 Daily, improve because I have to will to do it and because I'll develop a method to improve.
And that's the wonderful thing of SC2, you can actually measure your improvement, something you can't do that simply in Dota 2. In SC2, as it have the 1v1 mode (the most important one) you can't blame anyone but you. You lost a game because you made a mistake or you were outplayed, no second readings.
This motivation SC2 have gave me is the one that I expect will lead me to find a motivation to improve at work, at life, to be not just "a better gamer" as Day9 will say... I want to be a better person, a better worker, a better SC2 player, a better friend, a better son, brother, citizen, etc.
The problem is when we find thing that distract us, and I mean really hard, like playing for vice, like drinking and partying without hesitate, or doing that sport taking our body beyond the limit, not measuring the consecuences. And tell me guys, what can be more distractive than a girl? Nothing.
There's this girl at work, a girl that's not that much amazing stuff, but in the floor (of the office) she's the queen. No doubt about it.
The problem with some kind of girls is that they are just too fun, kind, open minded. So you can't tell what are they really thinkning, they are simple persons that just are friendly with everyone, man what a mess.
So, one day we had a really important reunion with the Finance vicepresident, and this girl wasn't at the office because she took the day off. After the reunion, I took the bus that leaves me close to the underground of the city. Everything was normal, as I like, until she sent me a whatsapp text, asking how the reunion was. Why me? the 'weird-gamer' guy in the office, having so much other people to ask that. I tried to convince myself that I was just a question and I answered quickly.
Nothing too weird there, and then we had a 'farewell party' of a person that was leaving the company. She told me to go with her and another girl to go to the supermarket to buy stuff for the party. Man, I was so lucky, two really attractive girls with me in the supermarket... derp, back to the real world I was just there, nothing special. Until she tell me that she was going to take me home, and the typical jokes "bang her dude", "now it's your chance!" arrived, somehow pissed me off.
Long story short, she took me home a couple of more times (yes, she have a car) and people was telling me stuff, stuff that finally did what I didn't want them to do. It made me feel weird about her.
Now I see her buying a bread and coffe with another guy and I feel unconfortable. Man... I'm just 6 months old on the floor and I'm already having a women-kind of problem.
And that's why I like to play videogames like SC2 and Dota 2, they distract me from all of those pressures (Did I mention almost all my money goes on my house? My brother's college, food, rent, and stuff). Games make me learn new things, or simply improve things, and I want to learn to play SC2 better, play Dota 2 better, and work better.
For that, I need to start doing stuff and stop bitching about it. I already bought "The Art of Learning" from Josh Waitzkin, recommended by Day9. I hope this book, SC2 and Dota2 helps me distract this girl presence (hopefully, forgeting about her) and letting me focus on what's important now: improve.
TL; DR: sometimes gaming is like life. You have objectives, distractions and the need to improve. Girls are the main distraction, and if you see work as gaming (because you have to learn an apply concepts) a girl at work is so much dangerous as a television close to your monitor. You just can't do both at the same time.
Cya.
