Step 7 Make sure you have fun.
Step 8 Be a well-mannered individual, losing is fine and it will be inevitable that you can lose in games.
These 2 are the most important in my opinion. If you are not having fun and also keeping your calm you will not be able to think rationally about the games you have won and the games you have lost. those people who nerd rage at losses will never improve faster than those that approach the game cool, calm and collected.
Also if you are well manner and a good individual in the community (which many people on this forum are) then you will find that others will respond to that positively and help you out with any problems in your gameplay. if you are a jerk to everyone then you wont get much help at all.
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