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    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 01:44 PM PST

    Stop lying to yourself in osu!

    Posted: 14 Feb 2020 03:44 AM PST

    This is a bit of a rant. If it doesn't fit the posting guidelines then by all means please remove it.

    I have seen it so many times in so many different disciplines, but for the past year of my life, I have seen it most in osu!. Maybe it's because it's the activity whose community I spend the most time engaging with, but I'm not even sure if that's true.

    I see people complaining about not being able to improve. I see people acting like life simply dealt them a bad hand, or that they are cursed to be forever bad at the game. I see people wishing they could have just a taste of the secret juice that top players must be sipping on. And in the least condescending or patronizing way possible, I think that's really sad.

    If there is anything I want you to take away from this gigantic post, it's this snippet right here. Improving at anything is a combination of two things. I don't know that one is more important than the other, but it all really comes down to this: working hard, and working smart.

    Working hard is exactly that. It's about putting in the time, grinding out the effort, and understanding that becoming better at something takes time, and that becoming good at something takes even longer. If you want to be a part of the top 1,000 players in the world, then you should ask yourself if you are willing to work harder than the other 9.9 million. Don't lie either. That's what this whole post is about. Stop lying. If your answer is that you aren't ready to work harder than the other 9.9 million osu! players, then maybe it does you more harm than good to tell yourself that you are ready, or worse, that you're already doing it.

    Working hard doesn't just mean putting in the time either. It means that you are pushing yourself; putting yourself outside of your comfort zone, and by extension constantly widening what exactly your comfort zone is. Working hard means you are putting yourself out there, taking a beating, getting back up again, and doing that again and again until the same hits that used to knock you down don't faze you anymore. If you aren't fast, don't tell yourself "I'm not fast, I'll never be fast". Tell yourself, "I'm not fast yet, but if I keep working at it, I will get there".

    If you play 365 hours in a year, you are only playing for one hour a day. Do you think you can be one of the best players in this game if you only play for one hour a day? Probably not. If you never play maps with long streams, how do you expect to develop better stamina? "Play more" is catch-all advice, and on its own, it's admittedly not the most helpful piece of advice. But it is the essential part of working hard. It's the first step in a long, long journey. If you want to get better at something, you have to practice it. And if you have to practice it, you have to play it. And if you have to play it, you have to play more.

    Now onto the second part: working smart. All of the effort in the world isn't worth anything if it's not efficient. If a baseball player wants to practice hitting fastballs, but they spend all of their time hitting fastballs straight down the middle, then they shouldn't be surprised when fastballs pitched low and inside throw them off every single time. Working smart is about a lot of things: understanding why you are messing up, understanding how to improve it, understanding how you learn, and understanding how much is too much and how much isn't enough. Among other things.

    Tell me, when you break combo, can you tell me why? Can you tell if you underaimed or overaimed? When you mess up accuracy on a stream, can you tell me if you're rushing or if you're dragging? And from there, can you tell me why? Can you tell me how you're going to go about improving it? Do you know what sorts of strategies tend to be particularly helpful to you, and what sorts of strategies tend not to? Do you know when you need to do more of something, when you've done enough of something, and when you need to do more of something? No? To any of those? Then whichever one of those it is, work on that.

    Work on working smarter. During a play, when you miss, know why. Know that you underaimed a jump, know that it's because you didn't read the pattern properly and shifted your focus to the next object to quickly, that your cursor followed your eyes, that you need to focus more on confirming your cursor movement to each object in a pattern, and that you need to keep on doing that until it's second nature. Know all of that. And if you aren't willing to go through the effort to understand all of those things, then maybe you should re-evaluate those lofty goals of yours if you have them.

    There are a few core things I see people lie to themselves about regarding improving at something.

    • goals

    • current ability level

    • current effort level

    • internal dialogue

    I think this is a good order of discussion too.

    Goals

    What are your goals with the game? Do you want to be better than your friend? Do you want to be the first to FC a certain map? Do you want to be top 100? Top 10? Number 1?

    Whatever it is, commit to it. Make a plan. Establish short-term goals that work towards long-term goals, and long-term goals that work towards longer-term goals. It's certainly possible to improve just by playing the game, but your mileage will vary, and eventually that tank will run itself empty. In other words, eventually, that stops being enough. At some point, you need to define what it is you are trying to do. Are you trying to improve your tapping speed? Work on your tapping speed. That means working hard, and that means working smart.

    Being honest about your goals is so, so important. You have nothing permanent to gain by lying to yourself about your goals. Maybe you just want to get better, and you aren't aiming anywhere in particular. You just want to get better, and you want to keep getting better until it's not fun to get better anymore. Okay, cool. Now let's get a little bit more specific, because defining your goals is important too. Maybe you want to get better at different skills, and become a more versatile player. You still want your weakest link to be strong. Define for yourself how many different skills and which different skills you want to hone. Do you care about ultra low AR? Super awkward finger control? Tiny circles? Fast sliders? If you care about all of those, you're going to spread yourself really thin, but that's okay if it helps you advance towards your goal. Judge yourself by your ability to achieve your own goals, and if you can't be happy with your progress with your goals, then maybe it's time to go back to square one and redefine those goals instead. Lowering expectations for yourself is not the same as admitting defeat. It does not make you a failure, and it does not make you a weaker person.

    Set goals for yourself constantly. Before you load up a map, give yourself something to work towards. A certain threshold of accuracy, a pass, a full combo, comboing through a particular pattern, having fun playing it; just something. And if you don't reach those goals, then assess how it makes you feel. If you feel okay, then great! No problems here. But if you feel disappointed, then time to go back to the previous point: work harder, work smarter, or change your goals. How can you expect anything from yourself if you never expect anything from yourself? Keep setting goals. Don't stop. As long as you're setting goals and working (harder and smarter) towards them, whether it's being number one or just having a good time, then you can keep improving.

    You are not your goals. Just because you say you want to be the fastest, or the strongest, or the smartest, doesn't make you the fastest, or the strongest, or the smartest. Your goals are the person you want to become, but until you achieve those goals, you are not that person yet. And that is okay. There is nothing wrong with that. But please, stop lying to yourself. Stop holding yourself back from improving. Your goals are something for you to work towards: nothing less, nothing more. So make them something you actually want to and will work towards. It will save you a lot of disappointment, and it will help you feel a lot more fulfilled.

    Current Ability Level

    How good are you at the game? And really, ask yourself, how good are you? Don't take the easy way out either. Don't just say "I'm good" or "I'm bad". No. Stop. Those mean nothing right now.

    I'm good at hitting short bursts, but I'm not very good at hitting them once they get longer, or when the spacing isn't constant between them. I'm good at hitting jumps at acute angles, but I struggle with them when they become wider. I can usually read AR9, but I'm not too consistent at reading AR10.

    See, that's a better answer. This gives you something to work with. This gives you something you can act on. Going back to goals, which do you care about? Maybe you don't care about reading AR10, at least not yet. That's fine. Don't worry about it for now, and don't beat yourself up for not being able to do it. Be honest with your current ability level, and what you are working on. If you aren't working on something, don't expect to improve at it. If you're doing something but your ability to do it is staying the same or getting worse, then do you need to work harder, or do you need to work smarter? Maybe both. Probably both.

    I'm going to ask you some questions, and I want you to be honest with yourself. I don't care if I never hear your answer, but I care about you hearing your answer. I want to know, when you break on a play, and you quit out, do you tell yourself "shucks, I guess I might as well exit; I would've FC'd the whole map, but I don't want to FC the rest of it if I'm gonna have this combo break"? Do you believe in your ability to full combo maps with patterns you cannot consistently hit, secretly believing that eventually in your neverending retry spam, that you'll get that magical, stars-aligned run where you miraculously hit all of them perfectly? When you mess something up, do you see it as an opportunity to complain, or an opportunity to improve?

    Full comboing a map in the context of osu! is the ability to hit the first object and hold a combo from there until the score screen. That means at no point in that map can you break combo. If you are saying you can full combo a map, you are saying that you can hit every single pattern in the map in one single, unbroken run. If you can combo 99.9% of a map 99.9% of the time, but you can only combo that 0.1% of the map 0.1% of the time, then the odds of you full comboing that map is actually very, very low. All it takes is one break. That's it, poof, full combo gone. Replace "combo" with "pass" and "break combo" with "fail" and you have the same idea with pass plays. Quit lying to yourself. Quit telling yourself you will hit that 0.1% in that magical lucky run. Maybe you will, but realistically speaking, trying to is a waste of your time. Identify what kind of pattern it is and why you can't hit it. Maybe it's a burst at 260 BPM that you can't hit because you can't consistently tap that fast. Then go play some 260 BPM maps until you can hit them and you can tap them fast enough. Eventually, you can combo 100% of the map 99.9% of the time, and at that point, full comboing the whole thing sounds a lot more believable.

    Do yourself a favour. Stop lying to yourself about how good you are, whether you talk yourself up or talk down to yourself. Admit what you're better at, admit what you're worse at. Define your goals, set your priorities, and become the player you want to be. If you are the player you want to be, then that is awesome, and however good, bad, cool, or uncool that is, that is really great. I mean it.

    Current Effort Level

    Even more than people lie to themselves about their current ability level, people lie to themselves about their current effort level. Just like your goals, your best isn't something you get to define and then wave around and say that you are. Your best effort is the effort you are giving every time you play. It's up to you to decide if that's enough for you or not, but I encourage you not to lie and tell yourself it's good enough when you aren't happy with your results.

    Please, tell yourself you aren't working hard enough. Tell yourself you aren't working smart enough. Or, maybe, tell yourself you are working hard enough. Or that you are working smart enough. Are you achieving your goals? Are you currently happy with the player that you are? If you are, then that's really good. Keep it up, you're doing great. If you aren't, then again, let's take a step back. Ask yourself if you are willing to work to achieve your goals, and to become the player you want to be. If you aren't, then ask yourself if you're willing to lower your expectations for yourself or if you can be satisfied with the player you are. Once again, neither of these makes you worse, or weak. Much harder than being good is being honest. Honesty with yourself goes a long, long way. Stop being your greatest enemy. Start being your greatest ally.

    Reverse engineering your goals from the amount of effort you're willing to put in is a good strategy for a lot of people; the more effort (quantitatively and qualitatively) you are willing to put into something, the loftier you can make your goals. It's really, really hard for a lot of people to admit that they just aren't willing to put in as much effort as they thought they could. But that crushing realization, that really awful feeling you get when you realize you aren't the workhorse you thought you were, those will allow you to breathe in fresh air for the first time in maybe a long time; maybe ever. Take a load off of your shoulders. Admit to yourself how much effort (again, quantitative and qualitative) you have put in, are putting in, and are going to put in towards improving. Do it for yourself. You will thank yourself for it.

    Internal Dialogue

    This one is really tricky. It's not nearly as simple to discuss as the others. I think there is a platitude that illustrates the broader point of what I'm trying to say here really well: whether you believe you can, or you believe you can't, you're right.

    People talk all the time about how mindset is important, but it's rare that they talk about what exactly is important about it. And I understand why: it's because the answer is everything. You have to have your own back. You have to embrace failure and use it to motivate you to improve, the same way you embrace success and use it to motivate you to improve. You can't tell yourself you can't do it. You can't tell yourself that you cannot achieve your goals. If you do, you are going to be very sad when you end up proving yourself right.

    I'm going to go on a little tangent here and talk about talent. People talk a lot about it, but what exactly is it? I'm not going to act like I have the right answer, but I have an answer; my answer. Talent is a person's natural inclination to understand or do something in the most efficient possible way. When you shoot a free throw in basketball, you follow a particular form, drawing energy from your legs all the way up your body until it rolls the ball off of your fingertips. A talented person will—with limited or zero instruction—follow that form. An untalented person will not. When you play a game of chess, there are a lot of game states to understand, and a perfect player can envision the winning game state and advance the board closer and closer to that every single turn. A talented person will recognize and process those game states more intuitively, and an untalented person will have a harder time doing so. My main takeaway from this is that talent is effectively this: the best starting point.

    Let's say every single player has a skill level number between 1 and 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion). Everybody starts at 1. If you are the least talented player in the world, you start at a 1. If you are the most talented player in the world, let's say you start at 1,000,000. While that gap sounds enormous, ultimately, in the race to 1,000,000,000,000, they aren't that far apart. What separates them now is talent, but what separates them past that is effort. While it's true that somebody who is talented and works just as hard as somebody untalented will always be above them, that means there is always a way to surpass them: work harder, work smarter.

    How does this relate to the main topic, then? It matters because you need to quit telling yourself that the best players are just talented. All of them got there because they worked so, so, so damn hard. Some of them worked harder than some of the other people next to them or even above them. Maybe the very best players are the ones with a lot of talent. Maybe. But at the end of the day, the process of improvement is the same for both: working harder, and working smarter. Don't worry about whether you're talented or not. It doesn't change what you need to do to get better. Work harder. Work smarter.

    Believe in yourself. Really, believe that you can achieve the things you want to achieve. Be realistic about what you're willing to put the work in to achieve, but once you do that, by all means, believe you will do them. What's the point in working towards a goal you don't believe you'll ever achieve? And understand that you can change your mind. Maybe that map you told yourself you were going to FC someday is just not something you are willing to work towards, and if that's the case, you'll probably lose faith in your ability to do it. Or maybe, that map you said you would never pass suddenly seems passable one day, and you gain faith in your ability to do it. And like I said earlier, whether you believe you can, or you believe you can't, you're right.

    I think this is a good place to stop. I could go on, and on, and on. But I think I've squeezed myself just about dry on this topic for now. I hope that anybody who read this whole thing doesn't feel like it was a waste of time.

    Happy Valentine's Day. Show yourself some love. You deserve it.

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