EPTOn November 17 2011 21:11 ImbaTosS wrote:
Yeah, it's 4 hours without pausing. I take breaks from guitar practice every 30 minutes, for a couple of minutes only. This means i can practice at least 7 hours each day, and effectively.
There is always a law of diminishing returns when it comes to excellence. The higher you go, the harder it is to improve even slightly. This kind of article which pops up now and then seems more like propaganda than anything else, in a "Believe in what we are selling!" kind of way. It's absolutely hilarious to me that at the start of SC2 people were thinking "foreigners now have an even footing, in BW we were just late to the party, not our fault". I said it was rubbish, and that Koreans would overtake soon enough. Now people are trying to make businesses out of the idea, even while it fades away as quickly as it was imagined- all that's left is to try and sustain it on the occasional glimmer of hope.
And no article is going to make it otherwise. Though having said that, people seem to love being told what to think/given excuses/false hope/weird theories that less=more. Probably because many can apply it to their own lives and take belief that they don't have to work that hard (ie slogging for hours on end to achieve something truly remarkable), because here, someone is telling you that other people can do it because they're just smarter than all those who work harder than them.
No wonder good writers are sought after. It's them making the money, generating the hits for TL. It's certainly not the game, or the players...
Yeah, it's 4 hours without pausing. I take breaks from guitar practice every 30 minutes, for a couple of minutes only. This means i can practice at least 7 hours each day, and effectively.
There is always a law of diminishing returns when it comes to excellence. The higher you go, the harder it is to improve even slightly. This kind of article which pops up now and then seems more like propaganda than anything else, in a "Believe in what we are selling!" kind of way. It's absolutely hilarious to me that at the start of SC2 people were thinking "foreigners now have an even footing, in BW we were just late to the party, not our fault". I said it was rubbish, and that Koreans would overtake soon enough. Now people are trying to make businesses out of the idea, even while it fades away as quickly as it was imagined- all that's left is to try and sustain it on the occasional glimmer of hope.
And no article is going to make it otherwise. Though having said that, people seem to love being told what to think/given excuses/false hope/weird theories that less=more. Probably because many can apply it to their own lives and take belief that they don't have to work that hard (ie slogging for hours on end to achieve something truly remarkable), because here, someone is telling you that other people can do it because they're just smarter than all those who work harder than them.
No wonder good writers are sought after. It's them making the money, generating the hits for TL. It's certainly not the game, or the players...
Perfectly said, and it also complements what I said earlier. This article is purely based on emotional reaction to some good results (to the foreigners) and tries to overextend it to a flawed sense of "epicness" of foreigner paying back with its less but smarter practice model. It didn't occur to me thou that it would be a commercial trick, to attract more hits, since I've seen this very same argument since broodwar a long time ago while TL was not near as important as today and it only sounded to me as the customary western arrogance over other cultures/countries, but it's a good point.
Also makes a good point noting that this could be actually just what people wanted to read at this point in time. Very opportunistic. And to judge from the number of posts actually talking only about the picture, not anything near about what the text tries to say, it's definitely valid point and valid to believe it worked well.
