This year, I am trying to play the Call of Duty video game on a daily basis if possible. It is not a legalistic thing—there are certainly days that I miss. However, it is a commitment to try to play better. I have learned that the secret to playing better is time in the game.
I watched another player playing online on Saturday and he was winning nearly every game he played. I shadowed him in the game and he was playing on a different level. He was going to the gun fights and winning. His kill ratio was 3 to 1. Mine is closer to 1 to 3—1 kill for every 3 deaths. So, I looked at his profile and studied his stats. This guy had played 1170 games. At about ten minutes a game, that is 195 hours. Given that this version of Call of Duty was released on November 4, 2016—this player has played almost 2.2 hours of the game every single day since it was released. This doesn’t even take into account all of the time spent on the previous versions of Call of Duty that he may have played before.
So, what is the point? The point is that the main difference between me as a player, who has about 117 games under my belt, and this other player who has about 1170 games, is time spent playing in the game. This can be applied to every area of our lives. If we truly want to be good at something, we must spend time in the game to get ahead. A lot of time in the game to get ahead, it is that simple.