There isn’t any other more disappointing experience in professional gaming than losing a game in which you outplay your opponent. Everyone is tough and confident until they choke. If you are interested about how to build your clutch mentality in stressful moments follow this link. However, this article would present to you three of the […]
Today there isn’t a single professional gamer who doesn’t know that being confident is one of the key mental states that would help you become successful at your game. However, after achieving success, plenty of players and teams make a very serious mistake. They become overconfident. What is overconfidence? For most humans being successful is […]
You begin your day as usual – same game, same settings, same environment. You start your game with good results, you are reaching your targets and you feel in control when all of a sudden things go backwards. It usually begins with a stupid mistake or two. You try to ‘brush it off’ and continue […]
Probably there isn’t anything worse in esports than losing ‘a game already won’. Underperforming in the most important game moments is known as ‘choking’. Choking under pressure is a major concern in esports amongst players and teams of any game or tier. Choking usually occurs when a player fails to achieve his self-imposed performance in […]
We all talk to ourselves. It’s as natural as breathing. But a lot of time we fall a victim of this internal dialogue.. Especially in competitive environment such as esports. When things are not going well in-game we tend to be more negative about ourselves and even when we try not to think about negativity, […]
Demotivation is one of your biggest enemies outside the server. In fact, being demotivated is probably one of the worst feelings, not only in esports but in general. This feeling is often described as a general sense of no direction and lack of progress. But what’s even worse is perhaps that despite the fact that […]
We hear so much about perfection on a daily basis that we think that everybody wants to be perfect. In fact, a desire to achieve is healthy and necessary in esports. But an irrational desire to be always perfect can become a problem and can cause dissatisfaction with performance and results. This is why it’s […]
As in life so in esports, comfort zones are a controversial topic. From one point of view they are very helpful – they keep our sense of order and control of our day, but from another – they could harm our long-term goals and productivity. What is the comfort zone? In plain words the comfort […]
Have you ever been so afraid of failing at achieving something that you decided that it’s better not even trying? Have you caught yourself at making excuses or undermining yourself in order to avoid the chance of failing? If the answer to both questions is ‘yes’, then like many people, you are experiencing a fear […]
Being confident in yourself and in your gaming skills is crucial for being a consistent winner. A lot of times esports players reach out to me with ‘low confidence issues’ but when asked, they can’t really tell why they experience this negative effect. So, in this brief text I will introduce three of the most […]
