EPTQuora: StarCraft skills that are useful in life - Page 4
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mYiKane
Canada1772 Posts
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bkrow
Australia8532 Posts
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snozberry
United States126 Posts
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Pelopidas
Canada225 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + no seriously stuff like focus, attention, and multitasking. | ||
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
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Doodsmack
United States7224 Posts
On May 14 2011 16:48 snozberry wrote: just being more efficient with your time in general. In sc2 i developed the mindset that I should constantly be doing something, spreading creep, injecting larva, scouting, building stuff. So in real life before something's finished I want to optimize my time. Ex: I was cooking dinner for me and my girlfriend, during which I did multiple things at once, so instead of just sitting there watching the penne pasta soften, I would fetch plates, set the table, go back to check, pull out the vinaigrette, chop the tomatoes, all "simultaneously" it's pretty awesome lol you needed starcraft to teach you that? | ||
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akaname
United Kingdom599 Posts
it's keyboard and mouse stuff, but in a work environment now, i'm constantly looking for 'shortcuts' and other efficiencies in the same way that, in learning SC2 and SC you need to learn hotkeys and other quicker, smarter ways to do things. a simple example being CTRL-U and CTRL-Q to mark emails as read and unread. I think my SC mindset makes me want to look for these things. when i realised how much more efficient than my colleagues i am at times, I sort of thank SC (and not my amazingness) for this. clearly some of the people posting that SC cant help at all are perfect in real life already | ||
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snozberry
United States126 Posts
well i mean obviously i knew that in principle.. starcraft just made me start doing it. Multitask like it's second nature and just being constantly active when you're doing an activity. Which maybe makes me stupid but I definitely didn't do that as much before | ||
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Deleted User 123474
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On May 14 2011 17:22 snozberry wrote: well i mean obviously i knew that in principle.. starcraft just made me start doing it. Multitask like it's second nature and just being constantly active when you're doing an activity. Which maybe makes me stupid but I definitely didn't do that as much before I don't have any multitasking things that sc2 helps like cooking, but for me, taking notes for a class has been helped a lot by sc2. For instance, I will deliberately take notes on things that I know I need to know, I will write the notes concisely, and I will know that if I keep taking notes like this I will become better at it. Many people do not know how to improve in something systematically. Sc2 helps you understand that there is always a way to consistently improve. Multitasking is a similar matter -- it's not about necessarily doing many things at the same time, but about doing things as efficiently as possible with smooth transitions between doing things. When you get used to the idea from Sc2 I feel like it becomes easier in applications like cooking. | ||
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rickybobby
United States405 Posts
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DisaFear
Australia4074 Posts
And i'm much faster at the PC as well, with normal browsisng,typing,hiding windows (  ) and all | ||
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Scarecrow
Korea (South)9172 Posts
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Fishermang
Norway56 Posts
In fact, I answered a question of "how do you deal with stress?" in an interview the way I learned to deal with stress during sc2 games. You take a deep breath, make sure you keep doing the basic stuff and deal with it good as you can, making sure not to stress out. I got the job  Macro and micro, and all the successful high APM button pushing is also really good for anything related to using a computer and keyboard. Also lots of good background for office related jobs where you need to do several things at the same time. All in all, some stressful and difficult situations in life aren't that scary after you learn to deal with stress during starcraft games. It generally just gives good training for doing your best, reacting, and making the best out of each situation, with the purpose of success (=win). | ||
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Probe1
United States17920 Posts
Harsh memories. Also I've learned how small mistakes matter immensely at first then decay in importance over time. | ||
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vaccum
France26 Posts
my mail: bona75@free.fr Thanks anyway.  | ||
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Apolo
Portugal1259 Posts
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me_viet
Australia1350 Posts
On April 27 2011 19:53 TurtlePerson2 wrote: My typing has become worse as I have played more games. You tend to only use three fingers on your left hand during Starcraft, but you should use five when typing. Obviously the space bar isn't included in Starcraft, but the fact that most people don't use their pinky while playing means that they don't learn proper typing habits. This was even worse in Brood War, where you had to hit buttons on the right side of the keyboard with your left hand. Wait what? that's completely wrong. How do you know that 'most people' only use 3 fingers when (i'm assuming) you only use 3 fingers? I use my pinky to hold down shift or control. And you're meant to use spacebar to return to town screen to start my inject cycle, it's half the action of double tapping 5/6/7 or where ever you hotkeyed your hatch. Just pointing out that you can't just generalise like that without proper research put into it. But starcraft especially brood war helped increased accuracy of my typing, but obviously having to type regularly improves it even more (TL improved my grammar and punctuation =D ) OT: like Disasfear, starcraft helped increased my alertness irl. If only because my head is constantly going over situations that can happen and what the best response is. It also clearly helps with my cooking where I think of everything in terms of Build order now lol. OH it also helped improve my driving where I'm constantly check around me ( I think of it as 'map awareness' lol). Once on the freeway, a small truck swerved quite suddenly (something dropped from the car in front of it) and came to a sudden stop. I was with my gf and we were rushing off somewhere and was closer to it than we were supposed to be. Pretty much, I nearly tail-ended it, but my starcraft training let me be cool as a cucumber and just changed lane (because my awesome 'map awareness' knew that there was no cars in the lane next to me). My gf didn't even noticed the awesomeness that was me saving our lives (she was searching for something in the back T_T) but I know... | ||
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