How To Become a MONSTER in Blue Lock - Self Improvement (Killer Instinct)

Summary

Highlights

• Jinpachi Ego's philosophy in Blue Lock is all about crafting a supreme striker by turning isolation into a source of fierce competition 52b
• Disconnecting from constant pleasures sharpens focus and drive 4aa
• Putting yourself in high-pressure situations teaches you to thrive under pressure 3af
• Seeing every challenge as a chance for improvement builds adaptability and resilience 3c3
• Achieving flow states can supercharge your performance 680

Key Takeaways

• Embrace discomfort to spark personal growth 44a
• Let pressure be your motivator 4aa
• View setbacks as stepping stones for betterment 4a8
• Channel your inner predator by pushing limits 43e
• Detachment from instant gratification drives focus 4bb

Overview

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction to Blue Lock In the opening chapter titled 'Introduction to Blue Lock', Jinpachi Ego is assigned the daunting task of creating a World Cup worthy Japanese striker. Contrary to the typical collaborative style fostered by Japanese culture, Ego believes the ideal striker should embody hyper-competitiveness and egoism. To nurture such players, he conceptualizes 'Blue Lock', a facility akin to a prison, where 300 talented high school strikers from across Japan are isolated and made to compete vehemently against each other. This harsh environment is engineered in a way that the solitary winner would earn the prestigious position of national striker for Japan. The immense pressure is further intensified by the stipulation that those eliminated can never join the national team, raising the stakes considerably.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Understanding the Monster Concept The chapter 'Understanding the Monster Concept' delves into the theme of competition and victory as expressed in a show. It introduces the concept of a 'monster' within individuals, described as an animalistic instinct. This monster is highlighted as a source that deepens athletes' connection to their game, acting as a ravenous beast driven by a strong desire and hunger to win. The presence of this beast heightens all senses and enhances performance during intense moments.
• 01:00 - 02:30: Developing a Monster Instinct The chapter delves into the concept of developing what athletes refer to as the 'voice', a guiding intuition or instinct, that directs actions quickly to avoid mistakes. It stresses the importance of listening and responding to this internal guide to succeed. Although the advice is sports-focused, the chapter emphasizes that these insights are universally applicable for anyone striving for excellence.
• 02:30 - 04:30: Importance of Pressure and Challenges The chapter emphasizes the value of detaching oneself from immediate pleasures to enhance focus on tasks that bring long-term satisfaction. It suggests that by eliminating easy sources of dopamine, such as excessive phone usage or pornography, individuals can cultivate deeper engagement and pleasure from their work. This approach posits that true satisfaction and success in any craft are closely linked with one's ability to find joy in the process and challenges of the task itself.
• 04:30 - 05:30: The Role of Divergent Thinking The chapter explores the concept of divergent thinking, particularly in the context of sports and personal achievement. It highlights how channeling newfound energy and replacing dopamine sources with mentally and physically demanding goals can be a pathway to success. The discussion underscores that many top athletes come from humble beginnings, often driven by environments that impose a necessity to succeed. This necessity is replicated in artificial settings like that of the 'Blue Lock' environment, where athletes are isolated and allowed to derive satisfaction solely from winning in soccer.
• 05:30 - 06:30: Flow State and Conclusion The chapter explores the psychological tactics employed by 'ego' to manipulate players into believing they are underperforming. By exaggerating the competitivity of the environment, players are driven by an intense need to prove themselves and ascend from being perceived as the 'worst'. The narrative argues that this manipulation is a deliberate strategy to fuel the players' fervor and desperation, ultimately instilling in them an intense desire to become the best. The example of a player named Noel is introduced to illustrate these concepts.

How To Become a MONSTER in Blue Lock - Self Improvement (Killer Instinct) Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 jinpachi ego was tasked with creating a World Cup worthy Japanese Striker he believes that the striker must be a hyper-competitive egoist due to the culture of Japan a strike will be unlikely to arise therefore he curates the conditions to make them enter blue lock blue lock is a prison-like facility where ostensibly 300 talented Strikers from high schoolers all over Japan are isolated and pitted against each other the sole survivor of this will earn the right to become Japan's national Striker those who are defeated will be gone and banned from joining the team ever again it is
• 00:30 - 01:00 with the conditions inherent to the structure of the show and the ideas espoused by the characters where we learn a lot about what it means to compete and win one of the elements of the show is the idea of a monster some people have this monster in them the monster is an animalistic Instinct that gives athletes deep connection and Rhythm to their game it's a ravenous Beast that manifests itself when there's an intense desire and hunger to win all of your senses are heightened and your performance increases when the animal manifests it
• 01:00 - 01:30 accentuates and bolsters the person's inherent strengths but one of the things that athletes talk about a lot is what they call the voice I will get directions right left do this do that and it's very quick you either do what the voice is telling you to do or you tend to crash so how can we create this monster for ourselves how can we develop this insatiable appetite for winning the tips I'm gonna give you might be tailored towards sports but by no means are they only applicable for sports anyone who wants to become the best at
• 01:30 - 02:00 their craft could gain something from this video so the first thing I can think of is to remove yourself from a lot of Pleasures this forces you to derive Pleasures from the task at hand this makes it such that succeeding is tantamount to living itself it is so easy to derive pleasure in our society so getting rid of some of your dopamine triggers will force you to truly work on something and derive pleasure that way so yes try and stop mindlessly looking at your phone stop looking at pornography period and
• 02:00 - 02:30 channel that Newfound energy you have that Newfound desire to replace that dopamine source with something that's physically and mentally strenuous that you really want to get good at there's a reason that a lot of top level athletes come from humble beginnings in short they were in an environment where they had no choice but to succeed we emulate that by artificially giving ourselves no choice but to succeed ego does this by isolating the athletes in blue lock the characters aren't allowed to leave and thus they aren't allowed to gain pleasure from anything else besides winning in soccer and to accentuate this
• 02:30 - 03:00 ego gaslights them into believing that they're actually worse than they are he makes them believe that there are 300 players there and that they're among the worst of the 300 players but in reality the scope is a lot smaller this drives them to think that they have an insurmountable mountain to climb but because you were convinced you were at the very bottom of the pile you fought through the first selection filled with fervor and Desperation a necessity to instill each of you with the hunger to become the best in the world there was no other way for example let's take Noel
• 03:00 - 03:30 Noah he's currently considered the best striker in the world he grew up in a slum in France surrounded by crime and poverty the only way to change his fate was with a ball soccer was literally the only chance he had to escape his predicament this reminds me of why religious people fast and fittingly around the time I'm recording this today it's actually the beginning of Lent so if you're a Christian this is also especially pertinent to you depriving yourself of certain things like food for example
• 03:30 - 04:00 will bring into Focus your need to depend on God similarly depriving yourself from some external force of dopamine will force you develop a voracious appetite for victory in whichever domain you're training for the need to experience pleasure is definitely the most immediate and selfish intrinsic motivator and since we are a selfish species who is used to receiving pleasure immediately this will inspire a hungry animal within you that has to be continually fed extrinsic motivators like naruhaya's desire to feed her as family are good but they are insufficient to awaken the Beast the
• 04:00 - 04:30 Beast itself is an internal creature when you watch the show so it only makes sense that there needs to be internal motivators that awaken it depriving yourself of pleasure will augment the inner need for satisfaction and dopamine and that is exactly what we will need to awaken the killer inside of you every time you complete your goal bigger small that inner killer and you levels up you are training yourself to embrace discomfort in order to be the best that you can be you gotta push yourself and even be cruel to yourself sometimes most people aren't willing to do this and part of this again is because of the way
• 04:30 - 05:00 we live we haven't conditioned ourselves to work for pleasure or satisfaction it's not uncommon to see tick tocks or Reddit posts about why we shouldn't even work for anything and of course many people say this in their air-conditioned home with high-speed internet we are the beneficiaries of the hard work our ancestors went through yet are complaining when we have to do some effort to actually maintain it complaining about the work that we have to do is a uniquely first world problem for everyone else it's pretty much the equivalent of complaining about the fact that you have to breathe for much of
• 05:00 - 05:30 human history you are forced to directly contribute to your survival and I mean every day From Dawn till Dusk and when the sun drops you fall asleep dead tired only to get back up and do it again now to be clear the fact that we don't have to do this anymore is a good thing but it has made people lose or perhaps not able to cultivate that fire in them that leads them to perform as if their life depends on it the second tip I have is to put yourself under a lot of pressure if you get nervous in front of the goal you're not cut out to be a striker as the famous
• 05:30 - 06:00 proverb goes as iron sharpens iron so one person sharpens another people with Killer Instincts love challenges they see it not as a hindrance but a way to prove themselves like bachita getting excited and scoring after being down three nothing against team v wait a sec don't tell me you're scared in a desperate situation don't be frightened cause that's when things get exciting blue lock is a closed environment where you're only with people who also want to succeed we all know of that famous quote you're the aggregate of The Five People
• 06:00 - 06:30 You spend the most time with so surround yourself with people who also want to succeed that's only one part of it the main part I want to get at is how you to be continually Under Pressure everyone in blue lock is under constant 24 7 pressure to succeed it's not just that they're around other soccer players but they're around other soccer players who are directly competing against them so for your yourself put yourself under pressure feel what it's like to be under a lot of pressure that way you can handle it when more truly pressured situations occur that way feeling
• 06:30 - 07:00 pressure isn't a new occurrence to you this can be like betting money on a pickup basketball game and part of what makes monsters part of what makes Killers is the ability to perform Under Pressure that way you act instinctually when the time comes Kobe Bryant is often criticized for copy Michael Jordan all the time this is because he does he has routine Michael Jordan's moves to such an extent that he instinctually copies them all the way down to the smallest of details even just look at the celebrations Kobe has after making game
• 07:00 - 07:30 winners they're identical to that of Michael Jordan it isn't so much that Kobe has a genetic trait that makes him better under pressure it's that he's practiced what he would do Under Pressure so often Kobe has practiced his game-winning shots so often that he's able to do them instinctually blue lock is the survival of the fittest anime it's akin to a group of pit bulls fighting for the last piece of food they bite snare and choke each other to get it and they will rarely ever feel bad for winning and trampling on their opponent when doing so in episode 5 after isagi scored he looks down on his
• 07:30 - 08:00 opponents and feels nothing after making them lose and crushing their dreams he only cares about winning the game monsters have this vindictive Edge where they absolutely do not care about how their opponent feels the field is by no exaggeration a battlefield of War for them to them it is succeed or essentially die let me guess you still think this is a sport don't you know this is a Battlefield
• 08:00 - 08:30 I'm losing at soccer he's losing the reason for my existence in other words defeat's the same as dying this doesn't represent a sport to this is the sort of raspy language coaches use to inspire their athletes in the book why men hate going to church David Morrow States deep down men long for a harsh affection the love of a coach who yells at his players to give every ounce of effort the love of a drill sergeant who pushes his recruits
• 08:30 - 09:00 to the limits of Human Excellence the love of a teacher who demands The Impossible from his students bluelock understands this you have to temporarily forego kindness and see your opponents as enemies this doesn't mean that you shouldn't exercise sportsmanship far from it after games before games even during the games don't cheat or get needlessly violent in cases need to be reiterated we're still trying to win at sports this isn't actual War but during the games thinking about it like it's some sort of fight for survival can actually be a morally good thing to do
• 09:00 - 09:30 to be in competition brings both parties to a higher level of competence than they otherwise would have been without the competition I think it is actually more Sports than like to push your opponents beyond their limits assuming of course that they are deathly serious is about achieving their goals it's like mihawk ultimately using yoru to cut Zoro at the end of their fight when a pocket knife would have done fine it's saying that you respect them as a player and thus you take them seriously it is more Sportsmen like to take your opponent seriously even if you completely overwhelm them than it would be to style
• 09:30 - 10:00 and joke around with them when I used to play Smash Bros and play against someone who was Far clearing aways better than me I would get somewhat upset if they'd switch to use their secondaries their characters that they would never use in tournament against me even if it was less kind I wanted to be taken seriously because at the time I wanted to be the best and I know a lot of you felt the same way I talk about this more in my upcoming book muscular Christianity if you're interested the book is about physical mental and spiritual discipline and Excellence it's a project I've been
• 10:00 - 10:30 working on for almost two years the book should hopefully Lord willing be releasing this summer the third point I want to make here is that killers are Divergent thinkers they are unafraid of change if it means ultimate development they are geniuses in adaptability in the book range by David Epstein he explains how most successful people have a corpus of knowledge that they've gained through working in disparate fields and then coalesce them into the career of choice when you are single-mindedly focused on your craft everything you do becomes
• 10:30 - 11:00 tied to that fact the job you have the books you read they all become relevant to your ultimate goal in blue lock isiki goes through an identity crisis after losing to rin's team he realizes that his skill of spatial awareness only really works in a team setting but due to the constraints of the competition he's often put in one-on-one situations with his back against the wall he begins to connect a bunch of dots he learns to understand the limitations of eyesight and blind spots thanks to Rin he learns about how the off ball plays are just as important as the on ball ones he uses
• 11:00 - 11:30 these ideas to ultimately realize he can copy naruhaya's technique make it better and win yusuke is able to destroy his previously held conceptions of himself and completely remake himself he's able to infinitely adapt to any situation this sort of reconstruction can be done by you by developing an aptitude for many different areas then consolidating all the knowledge and experience that you've gained from them into your ultimate expertise we have so far talked about three ways to develop your monster
• 11:30 - 12:00 first to deprive yourself of Pleasures second to put yourself in stressful situations and third to view everything as a library for improvement the fourth one I'll talk about is the Flow State or more precisely I'll be talking about how flow can coalesce these three techniques into a more palatable format so first of all what is flow the flow state is an optimized State of Consciousness where we feel our best and we perform our best it is effortless effort according to Stephen kotler the golden rule of flow is that we pay more
• 12:00 - 12:30 attention to the challenge at hand when it slightly exceeds our skill set it isn't too easy as to bore you but isn't too hard as to overwhelm you it also isn't below you because if it was below you it wouldn't push you to become better so it's just slightly above you it's the equivalent of pushing yourself to lift five more pounds on the bench press if I don't challenge myself I can't evolve the most basic human motivator is curiosity when we're curious about something you don't have to put extra energy in in order to pay attention to it another thing to help you stay motivated is Passion so we can mix the
• 12:30 - 13:00 two we can look at what we're curious about and relate them to what we're passionate about I talk about that in my video about how to stay motivated like an anime character Stephen Cotler in his book art of the impossible states that we should allot 90 minutes a day to give our full attention on something 90 minutes to single-mindedly focus on a task remove your phone turn off email notifications Etc both flow and the Killer Instinct or Monster are similar and play into each other the prime difference in my estimation Is That Flow takes time
• 13:00 - 13:30 effort and motivators to turn on whereas the Killer Instinct is born of a disciplined mind Flo is a process of altering your conscious to get into the Zone The Killer Instinct is a tenacious mentality that exists regardless of the situation it is in your best interest to optimize both and that'll be it for the video thank you all for watching don't forget to like comment and subscribe and I'll see you all next time peace