Crucial Business Lessons I Learned by Playing BrickBreaker: Part Deux

Here's a recap of the first eight hours. If you want a little meat on these bare bones, you will find a whole article on its website an expert author. (See below .)

1 keep your eye on the ball.

2 also treated iguana vision.

3 Avoid complacency.

4 Keep your attention focused forward on the next steps, rather than backward to what has already happened.

5 Avoid the temptation to multi-task.

6 Manage your time and activities.

7 to know what is the next level of "success" for you, so you'll know what to focus on to achieve.

8 Be prepared for challenges, but do not assume they are unavoidable.

9 Find the balance between spending too much time planning and not enough. I learned the hard way early on that if you do not run the ball into the bricks in a timely manner, it will run. When this happened the first time, I was totally unprepared, the results were not pretty. On the other hand, if I start without planning and strategizing I risk missing the best move.

10 acknowledge that just because can to do something, it does not necessarily mean that to to do. One of the possible outcomes of BrickBreaker is to use the paddle bat the ball back and forth flips direction (if I move the trackpad right paddle on the screen moves to the left). It makes my brain hurt me very difficult, because 99% of the time, I lose my turn for the first time I try to maneuver the "flipped" paddle. In other words, I stink at it. I decided that although I am giving up the opportunity to earn points, I will not use the "flip" option, it is a short-term profits, which cost me in the long run.

11 Challenge your comfort zone, but do it deliberately and strategically. Setting performance goals for yourself is all well and good, but I'm not going to get carried away with him. I have yet to be level 34 with a ball traveling at moderate speed. I will not drive me crazy trying to achieve the highest level while playing with a ball that moves fast

12 Resist the temptation to be greedy. If you have a chance at three different bonuses, I am often tempted to try snagging them all before the ball goes out of play. All too often, trying to get it, I lose the ball and get nothing. Sori.

13 Do not assume. one of the "weapons" that can be used to break a brick "top." I discovered by chance that I can use this tool to break what I thought was an unbreakable steel "wall". Who knows how many games I could have won if I is not It is assumed that the walls are unbreakable?

14 to think outside the brick. Remember my trouble getting past level 16? It took me a few games to realize that I completely ignored the potential use of guns to penetrate through walls. When I realized that intentionally create holes in the walls of steel, I'm just that I have easy access to the bricks hidden behind them. The result: I made ​​it through the levels of 22 day I started using familiar tools in new ways. (Woohoo!)

15 Love plateau. in his great book, Mastery , George Leonard describes how the path of mastery of any skill is made up of a series of irregularities in the course, followed by a slow fall in the results, then visoravni.Dobra news of such a plateau that was generally greater than any that have come prije.Loša news is that while you're on a plateau, to feels as you are not making any progress at all. According to Leonard, all of which are dedicated to the mastery learn to love the plateau, and I know that the lack of obvious progress or not, they are are improvements. I think I have quite a long plateau at level 16, but when I made that up a wave of progress, I finished level 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22-all in one day. (You can understand why, if I play through my lunch break, I set a timer for yourself .)

16 Sometimes you have to accept short-term inconvenience to achieve long-term results. One of the things I like best is to catch the ball with the paddle, as it slows the action down to a crawl. However, if the choice is to catch the ball or let it out of the game entirely, I'll catch him. Better to be small, slow steps forward, but that all the request to stop.

Therefore, there are remaining lessons I learned while getting my MBA (Master of BrickBreaker action). As you have seen this lesson played in the your performance? What you have reaped the rewards of these apply? And you'll learn about the following Universities in real life?