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Valorant 37: Back on the Grind
Byjack
Thoughts:
- Make the transitions smoother, add in more wide swings
- Focus on micro adjusting more before shooting
- Overall very strong stuff, great positioning
- Not having much luck with the micro adjust
- Try to shoot twice and crouch
- Use the difference between head and crosshair as new micro adjust method
- I hate DM
- I don’t really know what to do
- Maybe need to watch some pro vods
I really want to work on my mindset when I get upset, miss my shots or get frustrated with my teammates.
Some ideas:
- Pumping myself up
- Judging based on “clipable” moments rather than kills
- Use music to pump up
- Self-talk strategies
- I believe in myself
- I’ve done it before, I can do it again
- This is a small part of my long journey to being the best
- When feeling physically/mentally unwell and need a reset
- Exercise
- Watch videos of my vlogs and reflections
- Tumeric tea
- Playing music
Workpost 11: Mentalities for Happiness
Byjack
Today I woke up feeling pretty awful from going to bed at 4AM last night.
I was feeling super overwhelmed with many many things in my life.
Today, I chose to wake up slowly, get to work slowly, and here are some of the mentalities that helped me:
- Cleaning is incredibly healing. Any time of cleaning, cleaning your workspace, your body, your clothes, it all is very therapeutic.
- What can I do for future Jack. This is the Matthew McConnehey’s idea of leaving breadcrumbs. Instead of the common idea of letting your future self deal with a problem (let future Jack deal with the dishes, let future Jack deal with talking to this person) think about what you can do now to make your future self happier. This can look like everything from cleaning, to setting up a super nice workspace, cooking yourself a really good meal.
- Focus on challenge and growth. I think oftentimes I get overwhelmed because I think about how hard things are. What helps me is thinking about everything in terms of challenge and growth. How can I challenge myself? What can I do to grow?
- Live in the hierarchy of being true to oneself. I was talking to a friend the other day about hierarchies and choosing the right one (don’t compete in a hierarchy you don’t believe in such as money). I want to compete and live in a hierarchy of being honest and true to myself.
I still feel a quite a bit of stress of the difficult conversations I’m anticipating, and the difficult tasks I have in front of me.
Unwelcome World
I feel sometimes
I am living in a world
Where every step is heavy
But the gravity only pulls on my heart
And the future feels unknown
Scary and not comfy
Valorant 34: Deathmatch
Byjack
My initial attempt at deathmatch:
Watching Tenz’s deathmatch
Some reflections:
- I’m not back at deathmatch at all
- I need to get better at flicking
- Tenz tries to micro adjust to one tap, strafes for 1-3 shots then crouch sprays
- Takes more time on the people who arent looking at him
My second attempt:
Its much better, but I do feel more pain in my finger from the pressing the mouse and it my biceps.
Some more thoughts:
- Add more movement into the aiming to make it more smooth
- Flick faster
- Work on using less force when pressing the shoot button
Some thoughts:
- I definitely have a really good feel for DM and my mechanics are fairly good
- I can use DM to practice thinking about angle advantage
- Tenz is calmer, moves a little slower and intentionally moves crosshair to hold specific angles instead of swinging everything
- I need to keep a focused crosshair on one area unless I’m swinging
- Think of everything as holding angles, even swinging, you are swinging to hold another angle
Profit in Peace 4: Next Steps
Byjack
I was thinking in the coaching mindset today and here were the next steps that came to me:
- Divide coaching call into 20 minute segments
- Make Instagram page more developed, make it my main page
- Invite all artists to the page
- Make offer
- 100% off coaching
- Looking for feedback and honest testimonials
Valorant 6: Feeling Out Aiming
Byjack
I realized something today. While deathmatch and the practice range are a time to focus on hand-mouse-crosshair connection (basically pure aim), that doesn’t work in competitive game practice.
When I practice Valorant in a comp game, I should be feeling out everything including game sense, movement, and ability usage. See, aim in a real game only matters if the other aspects are set up correctly. It matters which agent you play. It matters how your enter, what your ability usage and game sense tell you. I was able to get so many more headshots when I was starting feeling out the entire game not just my aim.
The one area I realized I need the most practice with is game sense – feeling out where the enemies are hiding and being ready for multiple to peak out at once. I either don’t check corners, keep my crosshair super low or lower my guard after killing just one enemy.
I was able to ace with just game sense, ability usage and a little aim.
In the clutch clip, the one area I can clearly see room for improvement is the use of my ult. It was good for the first shot, but the next two shots should have been very intentionally trying to clear out the enemy hiding spots.
Also, in the clip below for the last round, I can see my decision-making skills need work.
- I need to do something with phoenix and reyna inevitably who were going to rush me. I also had my ult.
- I could have jiggled the wall, then try to make my way to long.
- I could have dodged the phoenix flash by hiding in the corner and facing the left.
- Or I could have peeked hard and try to make my way to long.
Here are the full game clips.
The Trifecta of Growth and Progression Down the Path of Truth
Byjack
There was a big journey I went down in terms of working on myself, becoming more mature and being able to live a free and meaningful life.
- I started by thinking that you needed to meet your own needs
- Then I thought you needed to be good at asking for your needs
- And finally, I thought you needed to process traumas and emotions
But I realized that they are all part of the same things and have different parts to play.
In a way, everything is about not abandoning yourself and taking care of yourself. You surround yourself with people who you can talk about what is on your mind truthfully and emotionally. They help you understand what you need. You are able to then give yourself what you need and walk down further along the path of understanding different parts of yourself that are in pain.
From processing emotions, we can truly love ourselves, and the people around us, and be present in the moment.
There is a sense that being with people who don’t accept us, don’t allow us to feel safe speaking our truth is self abandoment. In a way, even if someone meets some of our needs (for example is attractive enough to make us feel special), if we settle for someone who doesn’t love us or allow us to be ourselves, we are putting ourselves down.
Not allowing ourselves to meet our own needs (for example, asking for validation from others because we refuse to give it to ourselves) is self abandonment.
Refusing to look deeper, and shielding parts of ourselves from the world (for example, keeping a confident outward appearance when we feel anxious) is abandoning parts of ourselves and placing the outside world’s comfort above our own.