I just watched a bit of Berserk... it's one of my favorite animes... But it's for a mature audience... Like very mature... For me, when I went to College for my bachelors degree, I always thought of lack of focus in a similar way to the last ending scene in Berserk. From an overall perspective, this has to do with negative reinforcement (specifically the type that increases behaviour to avoid a bad outcome). That anime is extremely graphic. I was actually not going to post this post, but I mean. Unfortunately, similar things do happen in real life: murder, rape, decapitation, psychological trauma. These are all horrible things. And if you're not strong in one way or another, it can unfortunately affect your life. All of these horrible things happen everywhere.
One thing I inferred from watching it (and many other anime) is the following:
In the game of life, you will have various opponents, As long as you are strong in the best practices of defeating that opponent, you will win. If you are weak in the best practices of defeating opponents, you will lose. Winning feels great. It gives you a sense of control. It causes a pervasive sense of happiness in you, and then others around you. Contrarily, losing also gives you a sense of cognitive dissonance, which can be pervasive first in you, and then other around you. So win, life-damnit, win.
Time is now: 3:00 AM
Starting to study: 6:30 AM
Stopped studying around: 9 AM
slept 7 hours
woke up at 4 PM
it's 9:27 PM right now and I've been studying since I woke up pretty much.
I was just in the middle of writing a case and I wanted to tell you about a theory I have.
I call it cross bowmen theory.
I created it from a game I used to play as a kid called Age of Empires. Basically what I would do is build up an army of guys who use cross bows. generally what would happen was I would have 20-50 guys with cross bows. and they would fire away all at once to any enemy that would come nearby ... instant death for the enemy and instant win for me.
How does this relate to school? The way you use your moments in life is similar to how you arrange your army. If you create a ton of cross bowmen, you will be unstoppable in that game. Conquering any enemy in your way... The same concept applies to the CFE in my opinion. If you come at it with 5 million moments, you will crush it. But if you come at it with less than that, it will crush you. This integrates with my last post as well. That guy was explaining that you have to come at your goals with your heart, body and soul. Why? because there's power in numbers.
Another concept I had was from my breakdancing. I'm a good breakdancer. Pretty one of the best in Canada. However, if you put me up against 100 of the best globally. I will most definitely fail against every single one of them... I look at the CFE competition like my competition in breakdancing. There are a ton of guys out there who will probably cream me when it comes to writing a case. BUTT and that's a big butt, if you train with this idea in mind, you will likely train a lot harder than usual. And that is what I'm doing right now. Imagine what your best is... Now multiply that by 10. That's your competition. I get that from my breakdancing. There's like 5 guys off the top of my head in Canada who are better than me. But I know if I trained harder, I could beat them, or at least be as good as them. Same with the CFE, I can give it my best and say after a case :) wow. I'm really glad that case is over. I finished it. I'm so glad I handed it in on time... YAaaaaay. No. not good enough. nowhere near good enough. I'm taking my sample of what I know competition to be (i.e. they're generally 10 times better) now extrapolate into the realm of CFE. I need to get 10 times better than what I think is my best performance. Then I can compete myself. Ensuring a pass, and maybe even a medal.
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