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Jan 3 / 2022

10 psychological tips for gamers

| What are the benefits of video games on a psychological level? If you are a gamer, we will detail 10 psycho-tips to improve your game.

Video games are demanding, whoever plays them knows it. Improving your performance requires training a wide variety of complex skills, and the better advised you are, the easier it will be to improve your performance. But… Can psychology help you improve your game? Absolutely yes. Professional players have behind a whole team of experts in different disciplines who advise from very different areas, for example, at the physiotherapeutic, nutritional level ... And also psychological.

10 "psycho-tips" to improve your game

  • Reinforce your constancy and your ability to endurance. They will help your concentration.
  • Acquire techniques from leadership and of social organization. They will help you get along with the other players.
  • Develops skills related to emotional intelligence, empathy and effective communication. They will help you in and out of the game.
  • Practice your flexibility Mentally, it is never enough: do by adapting to small changes to learn to adapt to major changes.
  • Learn strategies to take decisions; sometimes you only have milliseconds to act.
  • Reinforce your motivation. Why is gaming important to you, what goals would you like to achieve, how can you approach them ...
  • Learn to tolerate frustration; most games are narrowly lost.
  • Be disciplined. Laziness is the enemy of high performance.
  • Power your general wellness outside of the game. Strengthen your outer life to be more effective inside, get involved in your environment, relate, solve possible difficulties.
  • The TILT,It is the enemy number 1 of the gamer. It is a state of mental confusion and unease that arises after a series of unfavorable decisions, which increases aggressiveness and leads you to lose control. This can help you:
      • Learn strategies So that what is going wrong does not affect you and you can move to a plan B.
      • Analyze the situation without aggressiveness.
      • put limits what is allowed during the game and what needs to be addressed afterwards.
      • Address the aspects of communication that negatively affect the game.
      • Address the anxiety outside of games makes it easier to manage during. It is important to learn to detect the first signs in order to reduce it as soon as possible. Physical exercise and outdoor contact can also be used as strategies to channel stress and anxiety, and should be incorporated into any eSport training.

    Psychological benefits of video games according to science

    • They strengthen cognitive skills such as spatial ability, reasoning, memory and perception.
    • They increase the.
    • They improve the planning and execution of movements.
    • Greater visual and motor integration.
    • Visual memory and attention.
    • They promote camaraderie and teamwork.
    • They promote adaptation to changes.

    Specialist in Clinical Psychology


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