 Seriously, play games, try to win, but really try to win. When it's your turn, be thinking about what to do. When it's not your turn, be thinking about what to do. Don't be thinking about the experience. Yes, distract everyone around you, but you're thinking the whole time. If you lose a game, figure out why. If you win a game, figure out why. If you don't know why you won, you lost. Be a dick. Two ways that. Don't be a dick. Be a dick in the context of the game. When in the game, it's okay to attack someone for the win. Outside the game, it's like a game, bro. Yeah, you gotta shake hands after the game. You've got to be the most horrific, genocidal dictator the world has ever seen inside of that game of Civilization V, but you've gotta be a human being outside of that game. For real, you think? Seriously trying to win the games you play. Most people do not try to win. Or at least they think they're trying to win, but they're not actually putting in the full effort necessary to truly be a winner.