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Learning Principles - From Masters To GM

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ShoCkSC2 Germany340 Posts August 08 2016 17:16 GMT #1 Hey Guys! About a year ago, I have finally made it into Grandmaster-league in StarCraft 2 after having been stuck in Masters-league for around 2 years. After being on this plateau for a very long time, I have completely restructured my approach to learning and improving in the game and fully commited myself to taking action for 2 months straight. Within these 2 months, I have made progress way beyond anything that I have ever thought possible before. Now, I want to share with you the principles that I used that made all of this possible in 2 months, after basically having been stuck for 2 years. I will go through 2-3 more principles (we are now at principle 3) and will then begin working on another video in which I will try to reconstruct the 2 months, talking a little bit more specifically about what obstacles I had to overcome and what my schedule looked like. Before I wanted to release that video however, I wanted to provide you with the very same principles - the principles that made this all possible for me. Once I have finished up the "Art of Learning" Playlist (again, 2-3 more principles...) I will release one last video that will quickly sum up all the principles again so that you have a better "overview" of those principles, you have it all in one place and can easily remind yourself of any of the concepts without having to watch all the videos again. Obviously, I could put it all into one video, but I did not want to do this because I wanted to go a little deeper with every principle - explain the background of every single one of them, how they look in practice and so on. Once you understood the underlying logic of each principle, it should be enough to watch the "summary"-video a couple of times to really engrain this stuff into your brain. Here's the principles that took me from Masters into GM in 2 months, after plateauing for years: Principle 1: The Proper Way of Accumulating Knowledge Principle 2: Radical Open Mindedness: Principle 3: The Importance of Consistency: Principle 4: Emotional Control: Dealing with Losses, Emotions, Misery Enjoy! Niklas

ShoCkSC2 Germany340 Posts August 11 2016 15:08 GMT #2 New Video! Emotional Control: Dealing with Loss, Emotions, Misery - Principle 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QS1YFCpdHY Today, We will discuss where all the mental suffering in your Life stems from and how we eliminate it. We will dive into how to deal with moments of discontent, moments of losses (losing in both competition and life), how to deal with the emotions flowing through your body and various ways of misery that we experience from time to time (negative thinking, judgement, depression). This is the key to eliminating pain from your life - both short and longterm. Put this into practice if you are having trouble being under control of your emotions, rather than being at affect of them - an essential skill for being successful in competition - but also in life, for both success and inner peace and happiness. Enjoy! Niklas

AnythingThenDelete 381 Posts August 11 2016 16:02 GMT #3 Radical Open Mindedness I read that as "racial open mindedness" and I thought it was about starcraft, but wanted to make a joke, like maye with Trump or something... yuo ruined it. Good job though, I won't watch because I don't play anymore and this is "masters and above" (from your blog title) and I was only plat at my best. But still congrats on everything, and thanks for the work!

ShoCkSC2 Germany340 Posts August 12 2016 13:18 GMT #4 Haha, thank you Gurderoy! These are actually real-life principles however. I'm using Starcraft for reference examples, not because this is neccessarily StarCraft related! Niklas

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