The Learning Experience

For an introduction / explanation, go to: http://megamanmarathonrun.blogspot.com/2008/08/mega-man-marathon-run-introduction.html

Today, I beat Mega Man 4 without dying after four tries. Each try I made it further until I finally did it.

Believe it or not, I was disappointed in this result. The last time I did MM4 on focused training, I beat it without dying on my first try. I felt like I had regressed a bit on the game.

So I asked myself "what changed?" What happened to cause the regression? Am I not trying? Am I not focused?

Then I kind of put it into perspective. It took me four times to do it perfectly. That's almost as bad as complaining that your last album only went gold.

In reality, I'm not doing bad, I'm just being hard on myself. I will have good days and bad days, and I just need to practice with a steady hand through all of it.

That brings me to my final point. I need to make sure that I learn from my experiences good and bad, and build on any momentum I get. It is this learning experience that will make me victorious.

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On a side note, I died fighting Ring Man and I got so mad I threw the controller to the ground, consequently smashing my toe. My toenail turned purple for a while but finally subsided. Those controllers are the most sturdy things ever. They should make houses or planes out of them.