Ascendant HARDSTUCK

WHEN I DONT CARE ABOUT VAL I WIN MOST GAMES

WHEN I START TRYHARDING I LOOSE EVERYTHING

MY MOM CAN CALL ME AND ILL STILL ACE OR GO CRAZY

BUT WHEN IM LOCKED IN I GET INSTANTLY ONE TAPPED AND MY AIM BECOMES RUSTY

WHY?

me

GENUINELY WHY IS MY BRAIN LIKE THAT?

im gold

Relaxing is key

u're trying too hard
Practice Wu Wei (apologies to all chinese lemme borrow your philosophy)

yo samee

WHEN I DONT CARE ABOUT VAL I WIN MOST GAMES WHEN I START TRYHARDING I LOOSE EVERYTHING

youre in your own head, mental is done

Tunnel vision or mental strain probably. Play when you’re mentally relaxed but warmed up.

trying too hard = stressed, tense, overthinking, overdoing movements trying to be better
not trying = not thinking, too slow, not paying attention fully
relaxed, but locked in (flowstate) = relaxed, loose, thinking ahead but not overthinking, calm smooth movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zna9-8RGQro
I'd recommend this video about it, but generally the best athletes and players are ones who can reach a state of calm while still trying and putting in effort. it's really hard to achieve, but possible.

i mean its pretty obvious, if you dont care about the outcome or are distracted with something else you arent too worried about the repurcussions in the case of you dying or whiffing, so therefore you dont have additional pressure to hit ur shots

however if youre fully focussing on the game and you care about your performance you will put additional pressure and then start to perform worse and worse after every whiff ending in a disaster