When I first began playing Call of Duty (Black Ops 3 and Infinite Warfare), I spent much of my time running around and getting killed. The highest I ever scored on multiplayer has been 8 kills. The sad part of my game performance at the beginning was that I would get killed 24 times…regularly. It doesn’t take a math major to figure out that my ratio was not a ratio for success. Then, I learned to slow down.
I saw my ratio and began to read articles under the search results from “How not to die in Call of Duty.” I ran across a couple of articles that advised me to slow down. One even said, “you are already dying a lot so why are you running around to stay alive?” I began to go slower, and instantly my ratio improved. I was still killing from 4 to 8 bad guys, but only getting killed 13 or 14 times. I’m still a new gamer, so I perfectly accept that it will take a while for me to be competitive against others who have played 10-15 years. What made me happy was that I wasn’t dying as much.
Think about your personal life. Many of us rush from project to project to try to get through as much as possible so that we might look better more often, when in fact we are spinning our wheels. We need to slow down. We need to slow down and focus on producing quality work rather than just work.
Slowing down is not only important in Call of Duty, but in life.
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