These two are your potential greatest ally in osu. It can't ever be overstated why these are important in one's osu career.
Each every human is unique. How they perceive the world are unique to their own and so does how they perceive themselves in osu. While this means that I can't speaking off from the perspective of other person that let alone I have ever meet and talk to in real life, I can however give some tips to hopefully, nudge anyone reading this that might struggling to improve in osu. Your mechanical and technical skill are alright but your psyche needs some recuperation. Just like your body have the mind-body connection, so does skillsets in osu.
1. Acknowledge your potential
Did you just FC'ed something? Have a feeling that you might able to pull this map off after couple of tries? Acknowledging that you can do certain things is important as It paint a clear path where you can go in osu. One such example can be understanding whatever skillsets you are good at and aspiring to be. Perhaps you can do 200bpm stream or doing DT. However this also can be trap that might lead to comparing youself to other people, which..
2. You are the only comparison. Only yourself
It is an echo chamber, and I'm happily to be part of the echo chamber.
Stop comparing yourself to other people, especially top players.
You don't compare your cooking to Gordon Ramsay. In a world that's so easy to view other people, so does our primitive brain to compare yourself to other.
One way to actively try to deal with this is to again, acknowledge that:
• They play differently than you. Some might even play more daily than how much hours they sleep. Some like to take things lightly. Some have better equipment. Some might have played tons of rhythm games before. Some already pouring tons and tons hours of experience into the game. Etc
• You are not them. It's just unfortunate that you are not them. Not as prodigious or as talented. But isn't it feels liberating to finally can be yourself rather than trying to be cookiezi?
You can only compare to yourself. How are you two months ago compared to now? Can you do 99% acc on a map you barely pass many months ago?
3. Be Ignorant, Be Well-Informed
Two path that you can take are
• Understand that at the end of the day, osu! is a video game that fulfill your pastime with amazingness and friends
and/or
• Understand yourself, the osu intricacies, the human physical and mental potential, experiment with things
Things are not static. Circumstances will change as new things come by, new discovery about human have been made, and so on. In a mean time, for practical advise is to experiment with your configuration for osu. Personally I'm changing my tiny area to medium'ish area because my raw aim are developed more than capable to landing cross jumps. medium-ish allow me to be more precise with more crazy tech maps.
4. Take break. Frustation makes mistake
You are no longer enjoying the game with each every heavy breath and sigh, perhaps cursing when you missed it again for the 69th time of retrying. Take break, and do yourself a favour
5. Do yourself a favour
Eat better, Sleep more hours and with more quality, move your body, exercise, talk to people, engage in creativity, do something productive, anything you can do for your both physical and mental well-being. Even at the slightest marginal effect, you're knowing that osu is just a game at the end of the day, and that is okay. You are having fun.
---
Welp, I'm done making walls of text. In a world of negativity, not only needed, hopium is human right as this point
Each every human is unique. How they perceive the world are unique to their own and so does how they perceive themselves in osu. While this means that I can't speaking off from the perspective of other person that let alone I have ever meet and talk to in real life, I can however give some tips to hopefully, nudge anyone reading this that might struggling to improve in osu. Your mechanical and technical skill are alright but your psyche needs some recuperation. Just like your body have the mind-body connection, so does skillsets in osu.
1. Acknowledge your potential
Did you just FC'ed something? Have a feeling that you might able to pull this map off after couple of tries? Acknowledging that you can do certain things is important as It paint a clear path where you can go in osu. One such example can be understanding whatever skillsets you are good at and aspiring to be. Perhaps you can do 200bpm stream or doing DT. However this also can be trap that might lead to comparing youself to other people, which..
2. You are the only comparison. Only yourself
It is an echo chamber, and I'm happily to be part of the echo chamber.
Stop comparing yourself to other people, especially top players.
You don't compare your cooking to Gordon Ramsay. In a world that's so easy to view other people, so does our primitive brain to compare yourself to other.
One way to actively try to deal with this is to again, acknowledge that:
• They play differently than you. Some might even play more daily than how much hours they sleep. Some like to take things lightly. Some have better equipment. Some might have played tons of rhythm games before. Some already pouring tons and tons hours of experience into the game. Etc
• You are not them. It's just unfortunate that you are not them. Not as prodigious or as talented. But isn't it feels liberating to finally can be yourself rather than trying to be cookiezi?
You can only compare to yourself. How are you two months ago compared to now? Can you do 99% acc on a map you barely pass many months ago?
3. Be Ignorant, Be Well-Informed
Two path that you can take are
• Understand that at the end of the day, osu! is a video game that fulfill your pastime with amazingness and friends
and/or
• Understand yourself, the osu intricacies, the human physical and mental potential, experiment with things
Things are not static. Circumstances will change as new things come by, new discovery about human have been made, and so on. In a mean time, for practical advise is to experiment with your configuration for osu. Personally I'm changing my tiny area to medium'ish area because my raw aim are developed more than capable to landing cross jumps. medium-ish allow me to be more precise with more crazy tech maps.
4. Take break. Frustation makes mistake
You are no longer enjoying the game with each every heavy breath and sigh, perhaps cursing when you missed it again for the 69th time of retrying. Take break, and do yourself a favour
5. Do yourself a favour
Eat better, Sleep more hours and with more quality, move your body, exercise, talk to people, engage in creativity, do something productive, anything you can do for your both physical and mental well-being. Even at the slightest marginal effect, you're knowing that osu is just a game at the end of the day, and that is okay. You are having fun.
---
Welp, I'm done making walls of text. In a world of negativity, not only needed, hopium is human right as this point