This Is Why You're Good at Video Games
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well it isnt that easy to be good at video games
I tried really hard and im never going to be good enough.
Except for Dota. Dotas hard mode.
I understand about Smash and Halo but I'm not good at it
You talk about understanding the world and being aware and yet you know nothing about the banks that have ruled the world since the 1700s after the battle of waterloo lol, the irony is always palpable with you moral subjectivists lol
It sounds so obvious, but it escapes you so easily.
I know, and it can be such a struggle to internalize advice that sounds obvious, but I think this is super helpful if you can apply it to your life
true that xD
Easier said than done
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Once I understand something, i remember it better and longer. So i actually agree with the video
Nah, they usually just call me a nerd and to get a life
That is also because they don’t understand the game. I feel he was referring to other people that game.
"touch grass"
"get bitches" they say as they get their arses kicked
i play dark souls like a g and people say it’s cool, i guess it’s really down to who the person is
Do you live in the 80s?
This reminds me of how I often hate working on math, but then when I go work on some math problem that I actually have a good understanding of, it can actually be FUN to solve it.
Exactly
I am absolutely GOD AWFUL at everything math related, but man, that feeling of realization and everything starting to piece together when you finally figure out how to solve a problem is just so satisfying lol
Happy to hear its not just me.
@@NightSkyNyx Hey, as long as you focus on that feeling and go through math materials diligently from the ground up, that's all you really need. The frustration is usually just some concepts you don't fully understand yet that you've missed by skimming past an important lesson or two.
you mean the school subject math? ACTUAL math is very different, its wider, and every information in it is in books you can read. Yeah what I'm saying is pretty redundant and stupid since we all know what you're implying is school math, but be careful. school math is completely different from just "math".
*frantically searches the deepest recesses of the mind to find a single game I am good at*
-jokes aside, great message!
Me too, then I studied a lot, and now somehow I'm worse. I don't get it lol
I'm still wincing at the image I got of deep mind abscesses, can't unsee...
@@kg6801 well now I am too, great! Lol
Bro if you have abscesses in your mind you gotta go to a hospital like, yesterday
@@kuroinokitsune Sorry, lol
Holy shit here I am as a character artist struggling to sculpt a human head consistently, until recently I hard core studies the skull/muscles/fat pads and now it I can piece it together so much easily
We are on the same boat, Zbrush gang
How did you study it
@@poiuuiopl9623 bro became a med student so that he can make face models more accurate, that's how
@@A.Singularity Basically true for character artists 😂. All of the people I knew are knowledgeable in human anatomy and how it works.
@@lachlantrescott5533 this means that if you mess with the wrong character artist, they can accurately punch your weak points and kill you, i will respect them more now
This is actually how I improved my Japanese speaking and listening while I was in Japan. I had to exert a lot of effort at first. But because I was surrounded by the language, understanding it quickly in context became easier and easier.
Good point, immersion in the culture provides a certain awareness to utilize the tools you already have available to you but with greater confidence and understanding. Even if your level of Japanese isn’t necessarily higher, being so surrounded by it makes you expend less effort due to your heightened awareness
@@freezeYT- definitely. Thankfully I had already studied the language for 3 years so it wasn't starting from scratch. But it was still very difficult at first. I had never before been surrounded by so much of a foreign language.
Being good at something also takes a long time of putting in effort along a directed, measurable path of achievement until you get to the point where things that you had to consciously work towards come with little effort because of the prior effort you put in.
Gold star. People don't pay attention to you while you're grinding and then throw envious shade when you're winning. It's fine, because it ain't about them anyway.
@@alkaliwreck2474 even if they're not throwing shade but are genuinely trying to complement your skill at something you're good at, you'll hear "wow you're so gifted" or talented etc when it's not about talent, it's about dedication and practice. Sometimes those compliments can feel kind of disingenuous to me because they don't really understand or acknowledge that being good isn't magical.
Yep. Its not rare for players to spend thousands of hours on gaming.
You’ve really been on a hot streak lately with these amazing videos. Keep it up!
Ha imagine being good at video games, couldn't be me..
Relatable 🥲
@Sniper Also true
Relatable
Unless I'm playing Dragoon in Final Fantasy XIV, that's the one thing I can confidently say I'm pretty good at
@Sniper Well if you want something that you need to work hard constantly to be good at maybe some competitive game like Valorant / CS / Dota / LOL. It would take time to master and even then you probably still have something to learn even after a long time playing
@Sniper true. to be honest sometimes I think how lucky people that don't really play game are. Like people that enjoy something that they feel very meaningful it takes all their time. It is hard to find meaning in game, but then again passion is hard to find, and game just feel easier to be passionate about
Having awareness about the things effecting you and around you is one of the best things you can possibly have. It's how you fix any problem and get better
but to develop awareness you usually had to work really hard right ?
My sister sometimes points out how weird it is to see me try for the first time a game she's been playing for a while, and watch how quickly I become competent at it.
I guess everything really comes down to understanding the basics while adding a few twists here and there until everything 'clicks'.
Same as when some people are good at math, or quickly learn a new language by playing around with it for for week.
Our father used to tell us to not study what we don't understand.
Always making sure one can relate the knowledge in one way or another.
It's a 'click' after 'click', until the knowledge becomes a second nature. By then, one can easily recall formulas and complicated words by following a 'click' path.
Understanding the mechanics and objectives of the game is important but I’d say actually finding the game enjoyable and interesting is what makes you improve and become better more so than just having an understanding of how the game works.
Whenever you find great joy in an activity learning and improving becomes very natural and effortless
This is the easiest way to get better at anything. Dude is standard advice guru conflates a lot. Enjoy what you do and you will get better at it...eventually. the supposed lack of effort isn't a lack of effort. It's just that you enjoy the effort. The awareness is great for starts...but that's it.
The best way to get better at something is to be motivated to do so. How do you get the motivation? That's on you and whatever you are trying to do.
@@chriscampbell6613 Plus, let's be real, you can still be very good at a thing and still face adversity. Chess is an obvious example. When two of the best chess players play against each other both struggle a lot precicely because they're both very good at chess.
@@TheWrathAbove ya. To further this line is play up not down. Playing a game you know you are going to win isn't going to help you grow or get better. Play up. Play games you know you are going to lose, learn you something in the process.
Practice and dedication will always beat talent if talent doesn't work. Slight paraphrasing...forgot who said it.
This happened to me with Cuphead XD On the first boss I was sortof face-tanking, but a friend watching pointed out a pattern they noticed and it clicked in my brain 'Of course! Patterns! This is that type of game!' And the boss was suddenly way more doable. Bosses in it are still quite tough, but feel very doable just knowing it's about patterns and dancing the fight
Are there games that you've played where bossfights aren't learning patterns and responses? I just can't think of any atm, so I don't know what other type of game you initially thought you were playing
@@quinn7427 Well, I've played others where you're not punished as hard for just ignoring the patterns, e.g. more health/healing ability, or you can over level, or the game is just easier, etc. Also turn-based games have a different kind of pattern-response dynamic. I heard cuphead was really hard, but that and the art style were all I knew going in. Sometimes against difficult enemies I get desperate and my brain flips to just face-tanking, so I just have to catch myself and remember to pay attention to patterns and responding.
To be bad at something and still keep doing it is so unbelievably hard. As someone who really wants to try to get better at drawing it's so easy to cave in to the stress and self doubt, and just quit after drawing for a few minutes. It makes me both sad and happy to see people who are talented artists be able to draw a few lines and immediately have something recognisable and good looking
I have been starting to notice this change in perspectuve within myself, and it does get easier to understand and see the patterns of life, and my own patterns. We learn from observing and learning lessons
This is actually a very good analogy, it something I’ve been struggling with lately in life to be more cognizant of things I am less familiar with/haven’t put enough effort into learning
Literally fucking everything is like this. If you take engineering it’s hard, but if you spend time with it YOU UNDERSTAND IT
Yeah but the difference is he said doesn’t spend time and still good he was explaining how are people good at video games is you don’t play them doesn’t take time it takes understanding the mechanics.
Bro really compared mindfulness and meditation to a video game. And it worked.
the difference is in a game when you die you can respawn so its easy to learn from mistakes but in real life there is no respawn
Each time you wake up is a respawn if you think about it
What activities are you doing irl that can making a mistake can kill you?
If you make a mistake in real life, either no one knows about it or you get a few repercussions, but usually it's not that bad. You don't need respawns unless you're in an active warzone
@@dickurkel6910 really depends on your circumstances, if you have no relatives or family any major mistakes could leave you without a job and then a way to pay rent and then a place to live and then you end up being homeless, and from there its a real struggle to do anything. there are things that can put you in incredibly bad situations, maybe you won't die but years of torment and psychological damage, that being said there is no retry button once you fuck up that badly so most people proceed through life with caution, nobody wants to gamble with their life but at the same time without taking chances you end up complacent
unless you’re playing a permadeath RPG
What games teach us is that no matter how many times we fail, we can get back up and try again.
In the real world, I've been fired twice for doing nothing wrong.
One time was because I caught COVID and was diagnosed with cancer while on probation.
The other time, I wasn't even given a reason. Just made redundant and replaced by someone younger, who they didn't legally need to pay as much.
You don't need video games to teach you that
@@JJJJ-lk8wj You can experience it through video games and learn it on your own so it's still better than someone else teaching you that.
@@Danmarinja life is unfair man happens to best of us
I like how you distinguish healthy detachment from numbness and dissociation.
Yeah these videos haven't been missing Dr.K you're changing lives with these shorts.
gah this is probably the best channel ive ever found on youtube
I find with things I am good at, I have both a casual relaxing easy time, but also a time where I am pushing myself to improve and its less easy. Both look very impressive to others haha, but honestly yea I think when you push yourself, you make more mistakes. And so even if you are playing at a higher level or more efficiently, the mistakes lower the perceived impressiveness from playing nearly perfectly, because for someone unexperienced they look very similar. Alternating between staying casually familiar and working to improve seems to be the best of both worlds
Also because you know, youre having fun and game intrinsically interests you. Ive heard a quote that goes "the only way to be really good at something is to love doing it"
I'd have to say, even sometimes thinking about how my brain works throughout my day has helped.
It's especially nice because this method doesn't need unsustainable levels of mental focus, lots of free time, or costly scheduled visits with a mental health specialist (specialists definitely have a time and place though).
There is more to that than that. Games also reword you frequently (so you're getting dopamine often) for your effort and its very fun "work".
Honestly needed to hear that man, thanks yt
I do slightly disagree on one point and that's that many video games have gotten to the point where understanding alone can't get you to be good, you need both understanding and effort to make it to the top, if you're not putting in the hours with aim tools you're going to struggle no matter how well you understand the tactics
No shit, hes talking about later after you understand the mechanics and meta which you only get by putting in effort.
Well if you know something it doesn't mean you understand that. You cannot understand something without practice and also you have to focus really hard to deeply understand something. So well... He's 100% right.
This channel levels up skills in my brain that I didn't know existed, then sets me on a path to discover how I can apply them to every aspect of life.
Love it.
How do I git guud?
You git commit
EZ
Mindfulness is key
Its rare to find genuinly good advice like this, I respect it
as a top 500 osu player, it was never easy...
and it overworked my tendons so much that now i cannot even play anymore :'c i wish it was easy...
To flip this advice into constructive feedback:
If you are a gamer and you played games at high level? Pick a field in real life that you at least tolerate and find fun/engaging 30% of the time at the bare minimum. Now spend a decade giving yourself the time and space to get good at it. Now... you are an expert in that field and you can contribute to the world. And if you do all that, and you manage to learn the lesson that things move slower in real life, than in games.
You figured out how to function in society.
If you study in a field, and you haven't practiced the field in 5 years, and the industry doesn't want you anymore? You have till age 55 (roughly) to spend a decade getting good at something.
Just figure out what that is, and do it.
You already did it when you found a game you loved and got really good at. You already know the steps. You suck at first, people don't want you in their team. Until... they do.
"Pick a field in real life that you at least tolerate and find fun/engaging 30% of the time at the bare minimum."
This advice is on par with,
'How to draw an owl
1.Draw a circle
2. Draw the rest of the owl.'
Finding the field is the hard part since it's so hard to find out about all the different fields available and what it's actually like to do them.
Yea this is like the most counterproductive and reductive advice you could give someone bro. "Find something you enjoy and do it" yea good shit bro lemme just go do that
@@temphy If you hadn't spent as much time gaming (I'm assuming) that you would have had time to find something you enjoy
@@JJJJ-lk8wj I'll admit i've spent an unhealthy amount of my life gaming. But that doesn't mean I haven't explored other hobbies or interests. I've delved into a good amount, none of them have really stuck with me. One of the only things that has stuck is gaming, I really really enjoy it.
I don't necessarily need to be interested in other things either as there are many fields to go into thru gaming and make a living off of. Its a very real possibility but one that's difficult to accomplish, as is making a living off of something u enjoy. That's why the above advice of op which is quite literally, "Git gud" (no seriously wtf after going back and reading it the whole thing is a wall of text to just essentially say git gud) is reductive. I've found the thing I enjoy, would love to make my living off of, and I have a very real possibility of succeeding at. It's just about making it happen.
Ok yeah hang on a bit just let me not starve to death for ten years straight yeah yeah ok done
God bless, this is such a fantastic perspective
This is why I always have a strong desire to understand why I’m asked to do things in my career. If I don’t understand what impact what I’m doing is having, how am I supposed to be good at what I do?
As someone from who has been to the competitive scene.... I assure u, it's not easier... It begins to become a chore or a job as u get better and better
Same with music. Once you’ve learnt a piece, it’s all muscle memory and effortless. Same with improvisation. It’s super fun busting out a blistering solo without even thinking about it :)
Unless you're playing super smash bros melee that shit is hard af
Yeah understanding is only half the story of being good at Melee, the other half being insane tech skill
This blew my mind. I suddenly understand why I hate it when I don't get stuff. I am in the spectrum and rather than being afraid of something I don't understand it annoys Me. So understanding something means I get to learn easier. It would be nice if that was also the case about humans and their emotions especially sarcasm and lying
Take it from me, I'm not in the spectrum but I had to deal with being othered and not being capable of understanding social cues:
Ignore it. Just Ignore it.
It helps saves time and keeps you in the Grind. If you would dare try to understand them or help them understand you just don't. They're not worth your time. Save that effort to people who truly care about you and gives a fuck about you. I only had like 3 friends in every grade I was in and the rest were just Acquaintances. They're not worth your time.
@HerrStracken okay let's ignore the negatives what are the positives if I just say Yolo and stop wasting all my energy into fitting in? I am afraid of the fact that I'll be unable to function in society either way. Adhd also makes me overthink a lot
I think it is a balance of work and understanding, with some back and forth. To continue the metaphor, you cannot get good at an FPS game without putting the work and training at some point, even if you watch top players all day and consumed of the possible tutorials and guides you could to learn the game (belieive me, I tried). There is one point when you need to just play the game and practice, with a plan made from the knowledge you learn. And it is by trial and error and trial again that you will become good. Same with life. If you learn but don't try to apply, you will never progress.
I needed this, had some nerves over my first big Apex tourney later today and can’t sleep but this got me out of my head! Much Appreciated 💜
After watching that my eyes widened and for a second i thought 'holyshit, this is the greatest tip to better life ive heard' then i reminded myself how life's mechanics go way deeper and how my character is so little compared to them
RL is the biggest open world game we can ever play and the slowest to grind.
Makes so much sense. So you're telling me that if I treated life as a game, it will become easy?
It can become similar to the state of mind that you have playing your favorite video game, yes.
All in all what you need at the end of the day is the will to get it done and a decent capacity to pay attention to what you are doing.
Omg, this is so wholesome! Thank you!
I literally had an epiphany around this ideology today
I actually feel like reached what we call enlightenment.
I just deleted all my social media
And am about to give this up
I always loved your shorts and what you had to offer man.
I made it guys! Ask the right questions and one day when you’re ready….you will be filled with clarity and joy….I can die peacefully now….good bye guys❤
i hope your sense of enlightenment doesnt mean youre going to delete yourself too. stay safe dude.
@@mikasasukasa4479 what he says
Not an ideology but ok
my fellow gamers, we meet again
It's not as simple as that. Even if we understand them sometimes whether or not we choose to do it is different. Our brain is so smart that it almost always choose the comfort zones which is why most of us ends up procrastinating and becoming lazy...
not just that but also the fact that you want to learn it and willing to spend time on it
I was expecting "You are better at games because you dont watch pornography". Surprisingly it is not the case this time
My mom: you're really good at the game, I wish you put that much effort into your school work.
Now I can say that I do without lying 😎
I like your theory but I'm good at video games even tho I don't always find them easy. I'm just very disciplined.
@@Dimitris_Balf like yes. But I do not always understand them, and then I put in countless hours doing research and stuff to understand them.
That's so well articulated, thanks
Gamer here, I feel like I didnt really get my life together until I started investing myself in video games and getting really good at one (valorant) and now I apply the same kind of tactics in my daily life. I lost weight the same way I got good at games, I learned the mechanics.
it’s not just about knowledge, but also about building intuition and reflexes. these are even less effort to utilize than knowledge, so once you have the intuition it’s even easier than when you just have the abstract understanding
For me it is more, at start when I am not skilled enough so it is hard, but when I master it, it becomes easy. I know that so I will be less hesitant to do something. Maybe thats what you call awareness
I'd say another part of it is that people that are good at video games have put in consistent practice over weeks/months/years to get where they are. Because the games are so enjoyable nobody really bats an eye at the idea of putting in time like that, they just have fun playing the game and getting better.
This was a genuine treat to watch. An absolute masterpiece of a feat that is to engagingly reveal the story of nier. Thank you, thank you so much
This is why at work when I first started, we were losing our minds with how busy we were. But now a year later, I know what's important to focus on, what times to run which reports when I have downtime, how to organize stuff efficiently etc.
Now it feels slow despite being higher volume than when I started.
This is why doing your research before learning a new skill is very important to your progression. Before I tried to solve the puzzle in my profile picture, I looked up how to solve it and reviewed that video many times. Once I got the puzzle on Christmas day, I was able to solve it within 20 minutes. The same goes for when I started Pole Vault. I looked up many videos on how to pole vault and remembered certain things when I actually started doing it and it helped me progress quicker than some of my other friends when they started out. Another thing about pole vault is that I wasn't very good and I still have a lot of room for improvement, but the more I try to learn and understand something in my head, and visualize it, then the better I will be at actually doing it.
this is the mindset i came up with about a year ago, and its currently my goal to understand life
I actually used this to discover something about myself. I found that when a game drops I’m always in the top 1-5% because of my innate understanding of mechanics of the game and ability to adapt to things that make said game unique (i.e building in fortnite) but then I grow bored dominating as everyone plays catch up. Then 6 months down the line when I try to play the game casually I find I’m upper middle of the pack.
It showed me I was too arrogant and prideful in my abilities and understanding when I should really have been more forward thinking, looking to see “what do I need to do to stay on top, how do I stay ahead of other players” now when a game comes out that I can tell will be a craze I’m always trying to pioneer and look for faults and unexpected mechanics, testing the boundaries and gap in coding that only the top players will know of and be able to execute.
This has helped me transition my thought life in real life as well. I’ve always been adaptable and catch on quickly. Praised for my ability to understand the work assigned to me and the speed at which I grasped the concept. Knowing that I’m the type to get bored with things when I’ve adeptly and firmly understood a process I’ve learned to counteract that apathy with looking for new and better ways to reach the desired outcome.
That being said shout out to video games for helping me understand one of my greatest flaws and helping me overcome them. (I’m a very casual gamer now and am totally okay with being middle of the pack 😁)
For sure, understanding makes things easy
I feel like alot of us have been raised to admire effort more so than results. To the point where we know that if we treated say, a subject in school like we treat videogames it wouldnt be as hard, but we cant do that, because its suposed to be hard, school is supposed to be hard, eating veggies is supposed to be hard. Like the amount of suffering you put into something is what gives it value moreso than what you acomplish
Now I’m gonna nail that job interview with my insane neutral
Wow,i needed to see this,thank you so much for this!
I enjoy them, that's why I'm good at them. I spend hours with Ups and Downs but in the end I enjoy the time spent.
In the moment being good at something comes effortlessly. Getting there takes a huge amount of hard work, patience and persistence. People don't get good overnight.
I had this problem with friends online, so they understand game mechanics very well the problem is they try to apply it to everything. They have awareness enough to understand something but not enough to be humble about what they really understand. And I aways they to remind myself this
Yesss. The whole idea behind knowledge is power. When I moved into my new home I spent ages understanding how all of the plumbing, heating and electrical systems work for exactly this reason.
This is actually a very good advice.
(Didn't expect anything like that from a RUclips short)
As someone who is studying economy, I can assure that knowledge is fundamental, not necessarily to gain Power, fame and money, but to amplify your possibility of choice and make you see alternatives that maybe you wouldn't even imagine without study.
In other words, knowledge is freedom.
This is sometimes true but in settings like tournament stakes and pressure make preforming incredibly difficult even for the best players.
Never thought about why lerning how things work is good it just made sence but now I actually have a good explanation for it thank you.
Gotta start from right where you are at. Fright in the present and understand where you are, so often I feel we conflate where we are, with where we are going or where we’ve been. Those can be important but they can also delude you into believing you are somewhere you aren’t. Pulling all that apart is confusing and strenuous but important.
This is one of the most helpful videos, I have ever seen.
As someone who’s spent lots of time in lifting and MMA gyms this is true for physical things as well. The biggest dudes don’t work harder they know how to work just as hard as anyone else but with proper programming. Really good jiu jitsu guys put less effort in than not as good ones but have drilled the movements into their body to be more efficient.
Great video, time to swipe to the next one.
It's like learning to paddle, gonna go in a lotta circles or just splash around until you're red in the face unless you understand how it works
I am currently in the process of applying these concepts from videogames to IRL stuff like work and chores.
On another note, knowing things doesn't necessarily mean its easier. This is true for multiplayer games. Singleplayer is different. I was very active in the Stardew and Anno 1800 subreddits, and I was answering a lot of questions. I've stopped because they got stupider and lazier with time. Like half of the things people ask they would come to the solutions themselves if they just stuck with exploring the thing for additional 10 minutes.
I've read other comments about how learning English was hard so they looked up the history behind each of the letters in the Alphabet and other related things about it that were interesting, fun, yet unrelated and this helped them
Now whenever my friends think I'm sweating insanely hard even though I'm not trying at all I can just show them this video.
When you know how to unlock your true inner power of Ultra Instinct everything around you feels way too easy, no matter how slow or how easy you go. When you go easy on someone you basically just let yourself die because just putting 1% effort into something is still way too sweaty for the other person to handle because of how easy video games you mastered are for you.
Maaaaan this is such good knowledge. For real. Man it’s hard to stay sensitive, tho.
Thanks for the advice Sqeeux
Thing is the gratification is nearly as quick or as evident as it is in video games. You can see your progress (especially in games where you level up). Meanwhile dieting and exercising you butt off for a week won't show any significant results. You have to be in it for the long haul (it's worth it though, and you can do it!)
Ah yeah. I just played River Raid... and as I was getting killed or running out of fuel, I started using the slow/fast mechanics to my advantage, haha. As you say, it's about getting a grip of the game mechanics.
The same applied to relationships! A relationship built upon mutual understanding is nearly effortless
It's with anything skill-related. If you understand it well, it comes naturally.
Thats very very very insightful and informative..
A solid explanation.
I learned this a couple of years ago on my own and I wish I knew it in school, I skipped learning the basics to some problems in math because I thought it would be easy and boring so I jumped to the harder problems and struggled instead of actually understanding how to solve them, now whenever I learn new things I always start by learning basic concepts and move on when I understand them
We like and understand what we play.
As of work well......we do it as an obligation and enjoy every now and then or not much.
Being aware improves a lot thus making us being nerdish around that subject.
Find your subject that you enjoy and DO IT!!!!!!!!!
All the effort was expended taking the time to understand everything. So (inside the context or outside of it), they’re not wrong, but they have it directed to the wrong thing, the current moment, where it’s a lot easier now.
dr k always with such a unique perspective
Worth mentioning that knowledge and understanding are different things. Understanding has a component of experience tied into it. It's built on the foundation of knowledge, but requires action.
I’m good a few video games, and it only becomes effortless because I had to put in a considerable amount of effort to learn the mechanics and become good at it, it doesn’t happen overnight. Learning the mechanics does definitely accelerate your progress. For example in Sekiro when people first start out they most likely panic deflect and spam deflect, but once you learn that the parry timings become much easier if you don’t spam it and instead just tap it, then the game becomes much easier
I used to be good at gaming, master in OW, divine in Dota, diamond in Valo. But it all felt so unrewarding after a while. Now I don't play as much anymore, having grown up and picking up different hobbies. But one thing for sure, having depending on where u are in life having someone compliment your gameplay Vs having someone compliment your irl capabilities are two very different feelings and the latter is alot more rewarding.
Basically knowledge is key to making everything easy
I think the other reason why some are good at games is the ability to stay calm. So often I see people and teams play better when people are chill