if you have any competency in ultimate and you are wanting to get better, the biggest disservice to yourself that you could do is not being in your own corner. so many times i’ve heard people say “your only saying your going to win because your top 10” meanwhile my mindset has always been the same way before i got good. “i am human and so am them, its a video game and they are shit” one of the best things i did for myself was taking away the names/ranks of players and just looking at their character and habits. so many players will look at their bracket and just say “I’m going to lose” before the tournament has even started. too many people hit plateaus because they are scared to join the greats, theres a reason your friend that you swear is so good can only use their brain in friendlies but not on their winners round 1 and so on. now imagine actually being on top of a huge stage with a larger crowd? well i don’t have to just live in a fantasy for that image, but a lot would crumble even before pools. it doesn’t just take an anime protagonist mindset to get better. theres a lot of discipline in peoples real lives that people forego (life responsibilities, outside jobs, school, social life, romantic relationships, gym) in the pursuit of it that you absolutely shouldn’t neglect. think literally your sleeping/eating/outside life habits/social media habits. can guarantee if your feeling out of it a lit of these things are easily fixable. but another one of the best things you can do for yourself is allowing yourself to grow outside of the game. its basic to say but with a lot of how the community presents themselves and the mentality that i see from people all the time its something i have always thought about. the meta sucks until your the one dominating it, otherwise your just going to be a pawn to real players. if you want to genuinely improve you have to stop lying to yourself about your faults and address them in and out of the game. or you will never achieve what you want. and you know what sometimes its not for everybody, there can only be one winner. as a friend to some and a competitor to all, i can only wish you luck.