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Having trouble getting better at SC2? Cant keep up with all of the tasks in-game?

Science suggests this is what a spoon would look like if it wasn't improving at starcraft 2

Although those are practically both the same question, one good way to achieve both is to set yourself small goals, that allow you to make small jumps in your play, and bit by bit (prime), you'll find yourself becoming a better and better player.

How can you effectively set up these goals, you may ask? Why, use the 3-goal system!

Its as easy as it sounds. Simply look at your game, and set up 3 goals. But be as specific as possible. Dont state something like:

1. Improve macro

Because then you probably won't achieve the original goal, of improving yourself bit by bit. The idea is to look at the smaller picture, to achieve the bigger picture. So instead of "Improve macro", try something like:

1. Inject more constantly than before

This is better than:

1. Inject constantly

Because you're simply improving yourself, not perfecting yourself. Why not try to perfect it initially? Because this is a bit by bit process, like I said before. Because you'r not looking to improve it to be perfect, you can simply work on the goal one day, and when you're satisfied with how far you've progressed, you can work on other parts of your play in order to try and ensure everything is being improved at a steady rate. A good example is if you are injecting constantly, but not actually spending all of your money, it could be useful to shift goals around.

Of course, you need to be able to analyse your own game effectively to be able to create effective goals, which is where replay watching can come in handy. In fact, it can sometimes be good to just speed through some replays at x4-8 speed to try to spot any consistent mistakes in macro or decision making.

I usually set myself up 3 goals every few days, and generally try to make them easy and different each time. Of course, there is allowance for overlap if I notice a goal hasn't been achieved a few days later. If this occurs, I try to dumb down the goal to make it smaller and more achievable. It hasn't failed so far, as I can see myself progressing to master league, currently high diamond.

Have any better ideas to structure improvement? Post below! ^_^

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TAdeL2:

I didn't read this but I liked the picture.