Do you get angry/self-frustrated while cubing? why not?

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Rowan... You say you've broken 50 cubes. That does make me feel a little better about smashing a few corner stalks and breaking flimsy corner connectors...
It really is irrational yet it happens. It's hard to stop in the moment though for physical violence in this way I've began to stop.
 
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MaeLSTRoM said:
Yeah, I was thinking that the faster the event, the more focus you need.
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Hmm... not necessarily. I find I need the most focus for 3x3. For 2x2 (I guess this could have something to do with the sheer number of solves I have done), I find I don't need as much concentration. I 1-look almost every solve now, so I need very little concentration during the actual solve (I just need to figure out AUF), but even during inspection I find my mind can wander and I will still get good times. Often I won't be very focused, then I'll notice that I'm getting good times, so I'll start focusing more, get nervous and fail. :(

I am pretty good with other events, but I get really angry when doing 2x2. It annoys me that I can be doing a good session, and be up to 30 or so solves, aiming for a good average of 100, then 1 bad solve, after already getting a bad solve can ruin the average. It's annoying that a really good 2x2 solve is like 1.2, which gets the average down a bit, but then a really bad 2x2 solve will be like 7, which can completely ruin an average. Recently, I got a counting 7 on the 96th solve of a session where I wanted a good average of 100. The session average went up from 2.15 to 2.21 iirc, which was really frustrating. I've been doing heaps and heaps of 2x2 at the moment (like sometimes >1000 solves/day), so it's really frustrating when I'm still not getting good times.

More than just short-term frustration (having a bad day), I have been really frustrated with my long-term lack of improvement in cubing - I'm having a bad year for cubing atm. My 2x2 progress has been bad, and despite almost doubling my practice rate, I haven't been able to beat my average of 100 PB (or even get close to it) in the last 3 months. I only just beat my 8-month old average of 12 PB by 0.01, and the really annoying thing is, even though I've become almost half a second faster since then, I still haven't been able to beat my 2.27 official 2x2 average from over a year ago. Compared to last year, this year has been pretty bad for me for cubing. :(
 
I get really upset when I don't perform as well as I think others would at my current skill level on cubes other than 3x3. Just the other day I lobbed by 4x4 at the wall and it shattered...I still haven't found all of the pieces.I just keep cubing when I'm mad even though it usually doesn't end well, but I do it anyway. This doesn't happen very often, and when it does I'm not mad at my cubing really...cubing is a great time to lose yourself in thought, and that'll happen to me quite frequently, then I start to get mad about stuff happening in my life, then I start to fumble and slip up in the middle of a solve, then next thing I know I'm considering throwing my cubes off the balcony at my neighbors.
 
teller said:
It is better to release it. Once released, it can be examined without the dam being blocked up so to speak. Feel deeply in order to think clearly. It's not that the feelings are rational, but by feeling them they lose their charge and then we can think about them more clearly afterward. Blocked feelings continue to exert an influence on us. This is great if rage helps your times, but not for most of us. Certainly not for me.
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I've seen one study that discouraged releasing your anger, because over time it can act as a reward mechanism...
It's social science though, so should be taken with a pinch of salt! :p

I wouldn't say that I get stressed out from cubing, but I get stressed out from other things and that can impact my cubing in a bad way ^^; I generally just take a break, haha. Or get something to eat, because I can be one moody mf when I'm hungry :P
 
When i cubing on perfect condition and got too many lockups, bad solve time, the cube slipped from my hand every solve, usually it makes me angry.

My mind say that the lockups happen due to my rough turning while angry. But i just can't stop solving to get good time, wasting my time...
 
teller said:
It is better to release it. Once released, it can be examined without the dam being blocked up so to speak. Feel deeply in order to think clearly. It's not that the feelings are rational, but by feeling them they lose their charge and then we can think about them more clearly afterward. Blocked feelings continue to exert an influence on us. This is great if rage helps your times, but not for most of us. Certainly not for me.
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If we understand the implications of 'release' the same way, I'll have to disagree with you: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbushman/bbs99.pdf

@5BLD: yeah, there was a while (from when I was about 16s avg til I first broke sub 10) where I was completely desperate to get faster as quickly as possible at the expense of everything else... I think I was grinding about 8 hours a day on average? Sometimes more. It made me quite emotionally unbalanced towards bad performance in cubing :P
 
I used to get really angry while cubing. But now I just get depressed, powerful associations with past events and saddening memories and all that.


As for finding some catharsis, I find that if I dont let anger (and lately other emotions) out, or I guess release them in some way, they just continue to screw with my perception of pretty much everything. Though its more about finding a positive release for the pent up emotion than anything.
 
Now that I think about it, Cubing never makes me angry, but if I'm angry then I go to cube and get bad times from angyr turning and that builds up my frustration some. To get emotions "out" I actually kinda keep them in, but I do some memory stuff, whether it's a poem, or cards, or digits, that usually helps. I'll make all my images really violent, gory, and angry, then they'll be really vivid; I'll get a good result, and then I'm usually fine afterwards.
I go somewhere else to memorize though. I don't use my house as the loci, is what I mean. I'll pick some other building, or place I've been, and do it there.
 
I usually get angry if I can't manage to focus on the cube. Sometimes I calm down (break of like half a minute lol), and sometimes I just stop. Shiity times due the frustration without stopping also happen, but not that often.
 
I can reeeeaaalllyyy understand you;)
When I'm cubing and I want to get better and my times are really bad, i often get very angry, then my times also get crappy. Most of the time it helps just to stop cubing for a while and then try again. Especially now, when being nearly at sub 10 I often get reeaally angry ;)
 
What makes a solve bad? Let's come up with a list... If you think of something new and specific so post. I think the main problem of anger is the non-constructive thought that goes on rather than constructive criticism that goes in your head normally.

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Solving Technique
-fingertricks
--rough turning
--regrips
--getting the right turn speed
-alg memory
-look ahead
--tracking
--inspection
--being able to remember moves
Elements of the actual solve
-efficiency
--movecount
--using multiple algs for a single case
-number of looks
--inspection moves
--PAUSING

Well. Its more of a brainstorm than a list. But whatever, I will leave it there and keep adding as these are specifics to work on individually.
-alg prediction
 
When I first started 2x2, I had been used to holding on the edge pieces so every few solves I would throw my cube across the room.
 
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