GGnet LastShadow - vLog #2

This time Nick talks a little about progaming itself and what it takes to become a progamer.

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[DjRavine]

Fuck Slog is a troll.

[Badhabitsjay]

My gaydar is off the charts.

[Chadlynx]

Bobby Fischer described this well, he said that a lot of the top chess players are good, because they just practice like dogs, but he said you need talent to be a great player.

[Badhabitsjay]

@bygone44 So to close my response to this, there is no limited potential, merely the routine taken to achieve such potential.

LS here merely demonstrates that he likes to perceive himself as special because of where he's gotten to. It's arrogance, it's pretty hypocritical that he then goes on to call others arrogant. I enjoy these vlogs and have been listening to them all, I disagree emphatically with his statements in this one however. Actual evidence disagrees with him.

[Badhabitsjay]

@bygone44 To further add to this, it's been found that those same greats split these 3 hours up into 2 sessions of an hour and a half each, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Every single one of them did this. It was also found that ALL of them got 1 hour more sleep than those that worked for just as many hours as them. So in short, it's about hard work AND how you split up and go about your learning. In a nutshell, it's about HOW someone learns.

[Badhabitsjay]

@bygone44 But was in fact down to the way they split up their practice. Those that attain the highest ranks are those that have a regimen, it's been found that the true greats set aside 3 hours a day of "deliberate practice" in which they would very deliberately attempt to get better at very specific things that aren't necessarily enjoyable, but are factually necessary to being better. This is not the same as mindlessly playing scales though, as an example, deliberate stutter step practice.

[Badhabitsjay]

@bygone44 This simply isn't how it works though, studies into musicians and chess players for example have shown that it isn't anything to do with any kind of "natural talent" as suggested rather arrogantly by Mr LS here, but by a number of factors, namely the "10,000 hours" theory that is largely understood as necessary but not the be all. The one thing that truly defined a difference between those that attain ridiculous success vs those that work just as many hours was in fact (continuing)

[bygone44]

@Badhabitsjay This relates to everything in life. Work can be as good as talent, but when talent works, scary things are possible.

[Badhabitsjay]

Are you REALLY talking up how progamers have some sort of extra special "natural" talent and then calling other people arrogant?

Jesus fuck.

[vennish11]

@AhmyyyydCastHD to be able to work hard is talent

[fd9w4dncm]

@MrGangstar101 Because he uses straighteners.