[0:00] So today we're going to talk a little bit about a  
[0:05] question that zeni TK asked me in 
chat today just now the question
[0:12] is mainly about if you have if I had any 
psychology tips or general advice for  
[0:20] dealing with tilt uh they demoted from fugin 
yesterday and then went on a big losing streak  
[0:28] to Mid battle ruler because my mental was bombed 
and then another question I forgot who ask the  
[0:38] second question if you know please tell me would 
love to hear more about psychology with torment  
[0:44] sometime uh so we're we're going to bring these 
two questions together because tilt and tournament  
[0:52] are very related to each other okay they're 
very related to one another uh and the same  
[0:59] strategy I'm going to encourage you to use in a 
ranked set will be useful in the tournament set  
[1:06] cuz you will get tilted now some of you have been 
watching me play the uh Virtual Fighter set with  
[1:13] people like Paul and um uh and others why can't 
I see YouTube chat in my screen what's going on  
[1:23] here uh and others in um oh on my stream right 
my videos Paul and and and satuna and shanai  
[1:35] and deog and you'll notice there are times when I 
get really frustrated uh one could say that tilt  
[1:42] I I have gotten tilted a couple times versus Paul 
actually like my first set I kept getting I kept  
[1:47] trying to do something and it wasn't working 
and I had to sit and think to myself okay why  
[1:52] is this not working so so the real problem with 
tilt isn't tilt itself tilt's frustration anger  
[2:00] and it's blinding you from being able to think so 
the real problem with tilt isn't the fact that you  
[2:06] feel a really strong emotion emotions are fine the 
problem is that it is blinding you from being able  
[2:13] to make good clear rational decisions cuz when 
your brain is really emotionally activated too  
[2:20] much it's overwhelmed your fontal low the part of 
you the part of your brain that kind of regulates  
[2:26] your emotion it regulates everything it's the 
regulatory system of the brain your emotions are  
[2:30] included there if you are on tilt your frontal low 
which is also where you do higher order thinking  
[2:37] where you do mixups is where you do pattern 
recognition all those really fancy things you need  
[2:41] to do to fight well yeah that [ __ ] goes out the 
[ __ ] window you're done it's over it's gone say  
[2:46] bye-bye any mixup reads anything that's useful to 
beat an opponent who's maybe causing you to tilt  
[2:55] cuz you keep getting beaten so my advice Su zeni 
is that when you find yourself tilted stop playing  
[3:05] the game stop ranking queuing do not raise Q stop 
yourself friends listen to me friends don't let  
[3:17] friends rage Q in rank okay don't do it don't do 
it it's bad it's a bad thing it's a bad bad thing  
[3:31] it's going to mess you up okay so make sure you 
don't do that it's not worth it it's not worth it
[3:41] now now you might be asking me well I want to 
play the game you know I want to have to like  
[3:47] not play the game and I agree with you you 
probably do still want to play the game so  
[3:52] then what you going to do instead do something 
else go to quick play qu quick play instead if  
[4:00] you like really want to make sure you keep 
playing the game cuz maybe you just want  
[4:03] to play and like you're tilted and you want to 
keep playing then play quick play it's so hard  
[4:09] to stop because I want to get back to Fusion 
okay okay I hear you I hear you zeni I offer  
[4:14] you this if you want to get back to Fusion 
more quickly and efficiently you need to not  
[4:21] start going down into battle wheer because 
you're tilted and mad and and losing too  
[4:27] much Right Touch grass I'm I'm actually not 
encouraging to touch grass necessarily I mean  
[4:32] you can touch grass I'm not going to say don't 
touch grass like that's that's a fine thing  
[4:35] to do um what I'm saying is to still engage 
with the game if you want to stop shoot from
[4:40] being literally close your eyes sit listen to 
the music listen to the breath your own body  
[4:57] feel the air coming in out your nose really 
really focus on the air you want to feel a  
[5:03] sensation you want to feel your chest going up 
and down your belly opening and closing as you  
[5:12] expand and contract your diaphragm just focus on 
the sensations the physical Sensations that are  
[5:21] happening as you are noticing and experiencing 
your own body breathing your breath is always  
[5:31] there you breathe all the time all day you don't 
think about it but it's there and you do it keeps  
[5:38] you alive automatically so right now you're 
going to use this automatic thing as a means  
[5:44] to focus yourself to hone in also breathe slowly 
breathe out slowly fun fact that calms people  
[5:53] down neurologically part of our neurons it's a 
certain rate you could do it at no want to do  
[5:59] that with you right now after you've gotten 
yourself centered with the breath come back  
[6:05] to the music what's the beat what instruments 
are playing is that a piano line is that a drum
[6:13] beat what did it notes feel like you 
like it you hate it Whatever It Is  
[6:24] doesn't matter just listen to it change 
over time and really focus on the sound  
[6:32] what you're doing here is learning to regulate 
your tilt in the moment when you're tilted now  
[6:42] I'm giving can now you can stay there or you 
can come out of it it doesn't matter anymore  
[6:46] what I'm trying to tell you here is first we 
start with the breathing right sensation of
[6:51] breath this is meditation yes this is meditation 
how do i s those great thoughts you don't just  
[6:59] let them happen there are many kinds of 
meditation I've been meditating since I  
[7:03] was like three years old and so there a lot of 
misconception about what meditation is meditation  
[7:10] is just focusing your mind and you can do it 
with anything anything you can meditate when  
[7:15] you're walking when you're playing a game 
when you're listening to music when you're  
[7:18] listening to a stream when I'm here streaming 
with you anything can be meditative if you make  
[7:23] it medita but I feel like I'm emptied my mind 
I'm not sure how to confront the thoughts that  
[7:28] persist I mean that's what th for potentially 
the problematic thoughts that you're hiding are  
[7:32] uncomfortable potentially but yes when you empty 
your mind and and you really just kind of calmly  
[7:38] ah my I got my thing when you enter your mind 
just kind of relax it you sometimes find things  
[7:47] enter that you're not expecting to be there and 
those are distractors so when you're tilted empty  
[7:54] your mind what comes up those are the things you 
got to focus on what's frustrating you what are  
[8:01] you getting tilted by and like you said earlier 
zeni it's yourself I shouldn't be losing well why  
[8:08] shouldn't you because they did what what are they 
doing that make that you shouldn't be getting hit
[8:12] by is there a reason why you shouldn't be losing 
is because they're lower ranked than you and you  
[8:17] should be beating people lower ranked than you 
is the goal here to acknowledge it and or find  
[8:22] a solution not necessarily not yet not yet first 
you have to stop being tilted you got to bring  
[8:31] yourself back down because again when you're 
tilted your fontal low is off your irrational  
[8:37] brain is offline not on the internet anymore you 
can't expect to figure [ __ ] out until you calm  
[8:45] the [ __ ] down and the more and more you do this 
the better you'll get at it and the faster you'll  
[8:52] be at it and the more quickly you'll be able 
to notice when it's happening so like I do it  
[8:56] between rounds you know I I I'll spend that time 
reentering myself sometimes I'll do it with my  
[9:03] breath I'll just focus on my nose focus on the 
air coming in outside might do a big sometimes  
[9:10] that's enough um I'll like do things with my 
hands I'll like do this this is another thing  
[9:16] I like to do a lot I'll like play with the bones 
in my wrist just kind of like move them around a  
[9:21] little bit just kind of feel them this feel 
my wrist is like rotating it also helps kind  
[9:27] of rotate and and and like release any attention 
in here but I have a bunch of little things I do  
[9:32] to kind of ground myself that's what you have 
to do when you're getting tilted you got to  
[9:36] ground yourself you're going off the [ __ ] rails 
bring yourself back down like anything it will  
[9:42] require practice to get adjusted and refining 
that Center exactly especially depending on  
[9:45] the level of tilt you're feeling yes ideally you 
want to catch yourself before you get too tilted  
[9:51] how do you manage yourself on those on a 20 
day ahuh depends on a lot of things uh more  
[9:57] the general advice on tournament day is just 
online offline I guess they're all the same  
[10:03] depends what makes you anxious if you're anxious 
about your performance you got just like handle  
[10:10] the anxiety by you can't make it go away like 
that's the thing I think people really want is  
[10:16] they want to make the emotion disappear which 
is why I'm not telling you don't get tilted  
[10:23] I'm saying you're going to get tilted get used 
to it and get used to dissipating that emotion  
[10:28] when it happens or using it as information to 
a degree that doesn't turn off your rational  
[10:35] brain which is what tilt is Catch it earlier 
before you get tilted before your brain is
[10:42] off and this is hard this part is hard so 
you'll need to really practice it you can  
[10:55] find yourself getting frustrated at yourself 
during training mode when you're practicing  
[10:58] a thing and like damn it I can't get it 
when you're practicing a combo you keep  
[11:02] dropping when you're practicing any technique 
you actually have to learn to fight along with  
[11:09] anxiety and nerves and torney exactly exactly 
this is one of the things that like you know  
[11:16] basic training in army they do it's why it's 
so stressful cuz they want you to be able to  
[11:23] turn off your fear response so that you 
can still think while you're in combat
[11:31] right because that's the problem when you're 
in combat and you're stressed out in a fight  
[11:38] and anxious you can't get rid of the anxiety 
it's going to be there you have to learn how  
[11:43] to work with it and be able to not have it turn 
off your rational brain this is why flowcharts  
[11:51] are important this is why automatizing things that 
are worth automatizing is important so you need to  
[12:02] know up front what are my Mix-Ups what can I do 
here what can I do there reason why I spend so  
[12:09] much time on one of my frames writing things down 
memorizing all kinds of random things because I  
[12:17] know that when I'm getting tilted those things 
that I've learned I've automatized I can rely  
[12:26] on that's what training's for that's why you 
practice that's why you master things that's  
[12:32] why you practice Beyond Mastery you've mastered it 
you're still going to practice it anyway because  
[12:37] you why because when you're tilted when you're 
feeling an emotional response it's too strong  
[12:43] and it's starting to turn your frontal loob off 
you don't want to be spending any extra energy  
[12:48] thinking about what am I fix what what am my 
f here what are my mixups here what can I do  
[12:51] here no no no no no no no you need to already know 
that because it allows you to make better choices  
[13:01] later on when you do get frustrated when you are 
going to be unable to think as clearly As You Are