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1) The “grind” is really fucking important.

Do your 1000 approaches. Improve yourself. Get experience in the field, no matter how small and insignificant it might seem compared to the crazy sets you've heard people talk about. You gotta start small to get good.

2) There’s a difference between knowing how to do something, and actually being able to do it well.

What you learn in a place like Seddit is theory. It's easy to be good at theory if you're halfway intelligent and read a lot.

To be successful in anything, requires an equally competent ability to execute. You learn how to execute well by grinding.

3) Strategic thinking is key. Sometimes knowing the environment/situation is just as important as knowing the end level boss.

Sometimes you'll be blown out in ways that you think is unfair - whether you get amogged, locked out by uninterested friends, or you just happened to approach at the wrong time, you have to be good at reading situations while you're in the middle of them.

4) Your player character isn’t inherently good at everything. You have to deal with that.

I'm good with groups. I'm good at approaching groups of people, being accepted by them, and raising their energy.

That actually means I comparatively suck at isolating girls, because nothing lowers the energy of a group like taking the energetic people away from it.

I didn't choose these skills, and to be better at one is to sacrifice the other, so I choose to deal with it by going with what I'm naturally good at, and mitigating my weaknesses in other ways.

5) Sometimes, it’s best to put down the controller and do something else for a little while.

If you ever find yourself angry with yourself, or with women, as I have found myself before, you need to get away from the game for a while.

I can't stress this enough. There's a ton of failure attributable to guys spending too much time on game, and it's because they're setting themselves up for failure.

If you're so frustrated you can't play the game without getting angry, you need to back off for a while.

tl;dr

Turns out that video games teach you some really good things about the need for self-improvement, the importance of execution, situational awareness, playing your strengths, and knowing when to take a break.