Take Control

The menace is loss of control. To reiterate, players commonly invoke excuses whenever they can in what they unconsciously assume keeps their confidence up, sort of like a defense mechanism for the ego. By doing so however, a new beast is unleashed that is much nastier and immediately damaging than a mere decline in confidence. That beast is a loss of grip on the situation. You see, when you start to call things “random” you're conceding that what happened was out of your control. You set yourself up in a position that is impossible to overcome. Continually, frag after frag you tell yourself it couldn't be helped and you wonder why you can't turn things around. It's simple though, you can't turn things around because you're not putting anything in your hands. You end up relying on the other player or team to do all of the playing for you. And thinking logically, it's much easier to control something with your hands than with hope now isn't it? But how can we take control of the situation?