Comments on: A beautiful post on Motivation http://www.tankingtips.com/2007/08/11/a-beautiful-post-on-motivation/ A guide to tanking as a warrior in world of warcraft Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:58:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Anshey(Kirin Tor) http://www.tankingtips.com/2007/08/11/a-beautiful-post-on-motivation/#comment-178 Anshey(Kirin Tor) Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:34:00 +0000 http://www.tankingtips.com/2007/08/11/a-beautiful-post-on-motivation/#comment-178 <p>*Nod* Good advice. All I can add to it, really, is that while motivation is important to doing well you shouldn't let it eat you up. It is, after all, only a game. If your group wipes, if you don't get the loot you want, if you screw up massively... the amount of it that pertains to real life is minimal.</p> <p>I want to be a good tank, because I think tanking is fun. However, the moment I start yelling at my friends over a screwup is the moment my warrior gets shelved. For chrissakes I play this game with my younger sister and my man. Keeping on good terms with them trumps any advancement, any day.</p> <p>I suppose my goal is to be the best I can, and do the best I can as a warrior and not take it too seriously. I read the whole post and I see a little bit of that there. It sounds like the fellow writing the post though took a break from the game, and for that I salute him.</p> <p>Mind you, there is a fine line in keeping in mind that It's Only A Game and using that to not take things to seriously, and using It's Only A Game as an excuse to act like an asshat. Asshats are asshats regardless of what context you encounter them in, real life or otherwise.</p> *Nod* Good advice. All I can add to it, really, is that while motivation is important to doing well you shouldn’t let it eat you up. It is, after all, only a game. If your group wipes, if you don’t get the loot you want, if you screw up massively… the amount of it that pertains to real life is minimal.

I want to be a good tank, because I think tanking is fun. However, the moment I start yelling at my friends over a screwup is the moment my warrior gets shelved. For chrissakes I play this game with my younger sister and my man. Keeping on good terms with them trumps any advancement, any day.

I suppose my goal is to be the best I can, and do the best I can as a warrior and not take it too seriously. I read the whole post and I see a little bit of that there. It sounds like the fellow writing the post though took a break from the game, and for that I salute him.

Mind you, there is a fine line in keeping in mind that It’s Only A Game and using that to not take things to seriously, and using It’s Only A Game as an excuse to act like an asshat. Asshats are asshats regardless of what context you encounter them in, real life or otherwise.

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