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7 facts about Sleep & Gaming 💤 1️⃣ 7 hours+ of Sleep is vital for gaming. Tons of literature showing how BASIC cognitive task suffer from just 1 missed cycle of REM sleep. 2️⃣ Caffeine past noon will likely affect your sleep negatively, due to its long half-life. This depends how fast you as an individual metabolize caffeine. 3️⃣ Sleep can dictate your ability to focus to a degree that impedes your reflexes, and decision making and hurt your rank, or aspirations as a player. 4️⃣ Sleep deprivation isn’t something you can self identify accurately. Just cause you feel fine doesn’t mean you necessarily are at optimal cognitive functioning. 5️⃣ Yes you can be a great player with poor rest, but that player can always be better with higher quality sleep. 6️⃣ There is plenty of ways to help you fall asleep. - Warm Baths, to drop your temperature (1 degree temp drop is a requirement before you can fall asleep) - Cutting blue light to increase melatonin production - Supplements with a great safety profile such as magnesium Theronate and Glycinate. 7️⃣ Sleep makes improvement possible. The bulk of learning actually happens during sleep there is no getting around this.

You choose not train You choose to stay up late You choose to eat poorly You choose to not Vod review Yet you expect to improve. Being strict is tough, but what you avoid cause of difficulty, will only reproduce itself as frustration through your poor gameplay. Choose well.

I believe in your ability to go pro or to make successful and well appreciated content. When I say this, I am not referring to your talents, I don’t know you. Rather I believe in your ability to be able to work hard in doing so. We are all capable. You choose to do so or not.

IMPROVE your ranked experiences (in any game). If you are having or ever had a bad ranked experience and didn’t feel like playing please read this thread.

Instead of thinking of yourself as untalented and skills as something to obtain, realize that every skill you have needs to be developed incrementally, rather than acquired like some item. Manage these expectations, and they’ll make your improvement much more enjoyable.