I recently have been going through this same journey of Mastery. In addition to reading David Sirlin's "Playing To Win," & Diago's "The Will To Keep Winning," I have picked up George Leonard's "Mastery: The Keys To Success And Long-Term Fulfillment." The book discusses that Mastery is not constant improvement, but it is often peaks and valleys, filled with many plateaus that we must live on for a while before we start climbing in Mastery.

Really reminds me of how I got stayed in Silver Rank in Street Fighter 6 and i stagnated. Eventually I decided to go back to the tutorial menu and completed everything the game needed to teach. Then I restarted World Tour and played from the beginning to play with the bare minimum. Eventually the way I played completely changed and now I’m getting better. However, I believe I could get to hold if I played more but I have other things in my life I prefer doing.

I really love this style of videos

Excellent unpacking of the issue. Love these videos.

these videos are amazing! hope to see more

Thanks! I needed this.

So recently I got into 2A yoyoing (in part thanks to your Loop720 video!). I'm still learning one-hand loop the loop for a week prior to this comment, and while I've had some good moments, it feels as though I'm not progressing well. I've had so many misses AFTER learning the "correct movements", and so on. Luckily I found this video! Thanks! And hopefully I'll keep on looping (after some break 😂).

I feel like I needed this. Really good topic and discussion.

Love your vids man. Been subscribed for years !

This video series has become my favourite thing to watch and listen to while drawing. Your experience kind of mirrors what I've been discovering about life at this moment, so on a certain level I kind of get what you're talking really well. I hope you continue on with the series, even if the controller reviews are more popular. And of course, continue to make coffee.

This is exactly what I needed to hear. Your set up is looking very stylish (professional)

loving this style, thanks for the upload right before bed... xD

This is a topic I am always on about: Biological Factor. The unsung truth in gaming is that a large part of it is based on reaction speed, which isn't actually defined by muscle memory but by your bodies condition. A healthy body is more capable of faster reflexes than an unhealthy body. But no one wants to commit to a good, better, diet and exorcise that's different from what they are already doing JUST to be better at a videogame. There's a great article on cognifit about response-time. The argument "practice makes perfect" works for things like sports because in addition to training your muscle memory and getting rid of bad habits/forming good habits, it also involves physical exertion, which can be beneficial to becoming more healthy. With videogames however, there is minimal physical exertion so it isn't as beneficial in that instance. Practice alone doesn't make perfect. Perfection takes work and work isn't just practice. Sure, you could rely on "mental stack", but that's a work-around to the problem, a band-aid fix, and a poor one at that. In reality though, perfection is about fixing faults wherever they be, even when those faults aren't in the game, but in the real world. And it definitely won't help if you are only eating fatty food/caffeine all day. It's why I don't like the idea of a competitive scene in online games. Games are supposed to be fun, a form of play. But in order to keep up, you gotta give up "play" to instead do "work". At that point, the notion in it being a "game" lost it's meaning. Online compet isn't a game, it's a job or worse, a life style that you have to commit to or remain frustrated by those that already naturally do. I choose to back out of it entirely because of that notion. Too big of an ask.

“I’m actually really into this now”😂

Hey Man, Just to give out a couple tips with espresso brewing that have worked for me in terms of dialing in: 1. Try to play with your ratio, if you find that 1:2 ratio is giving you a lot more astringency or unpleasant flavors, you might find that upping the ratio can help in some cases depending on the roast level of your coffee, do it in increments of .5 to try the find the sweet spot, you can also increase the dose up to 18g with the basket you currently have. 2. Make sure you are not always maxing your water temperature after pre-heating the brewer, it might not make a huge difference in extraction going from 95°c to 93°c down to 91°C but to some people this definitely makes an impact in taste, after all some coffee will respond better to lower temperatures such is the case of dark roasted beans or medium to medium dark, light roast tends to respond better to high temperatures due to the difficulty of extraction that comes with light roast, light roasted coffees, specially single origin or specialty can be difficult to dial in if you don't have the experience or your grinder just isn't up to the task, they are quite the challenge but can be very distinct in their flavor notes and very enjoyable, although that will depend on your taste preference. 3. Try to wet your beans before grinding to help reach a consistent extraction each time, static and fines will definitely be a variable you want to try and get some sort of control over, you can do this with a little spray bottle you can find almost anywhere. 4. At last, this might sound like a dumb suggestion to some but I cannot stress how important this is, "buy better coffee", the quality of your coffee beans will have a greater impact in the brewing process and tasting, coffee that is low quality in terms of how it is grown, harvested and roasted will give you a much harder time and most certainly will not taste any different than your usual coffee shop experience(unless your usual coffee shops are picky about the beans they source from or are a specialty coffee shop). Sorry for the long comment, but I hope you can take something away from my experience and suggestions 😁.

My man, I would love to sit down and talk with you along a nice cup of fresh coffee (Recommend the yellow bourbon from Brazil 🇧🇷) Keep up the good content

Don't know specifically where your coffee was grown. There are 3 main coffee producing regions in Mexico: Veracruz, Chiapas, and Oaxaca. Oaxaca is a traditional producer of black clay, and the coffee actually comes with some aftertaste to clay. Chiapas is a rainforest. The coffee is far more acidic. Veracruz I'd say is the more "balanced" one. You can usually tell the difference of single-origin coffees from these regions just by taste. It's really fun 😅

Also know your limits and try lots of other things.

I wish I could master pixel art

My motto is "Never Give Up" because I've struggled with obesity, depression and anxiety my whole life. Most recently, I lost 175lbs in 11 months. Diet, exercise, and discipline made it possible, none of which would be doable if I had ever stopped believing in myself. Doing hard things isn't easy when you stop at the start.

I really think that if you want to improve you should have a goal associated with it. Typically as a casual player my goal in fighting games is to be able to defeat the final boss of the arcade mode on medium difficulty or higher and the "or higher" really depends on how fun I find the game. I can expand on this but my comment is long enough.

JunkFood Arcade seems to be overwhelmed & understaffed. I haven't had a working leverless since 3/21. I may just abandon my SnackBox Micro for a Haute42 T16 & simply buy cheaper leverless controllers if static kills another one. It seems like understaffing just a wee bit is the average way to do things. Sucks too because I went from not playing FG at all, to buying a leverless & making it to Gold 5 with Ken, & was preparing to try to get used to Tekken 7 until Akuma shows up. >Cries in GTAV Chaos Mod

"I don't usually go for a light roast" sounds like a segue into some mad disrespect.

Stick to product reviews man, you are not the guy 😂