User blog comment:YourPrivateNightmare/The Support, an essay/@comment-8802138-20131024232144/@comment-5556439-20131026143831

Ok Busecatu I can tell straight up that aplying to win is the worst possible thing you can do for yourself in any kind of game.

Ill admit it, that I cant get past myself and that I have too much personal pride to just accept a loss, because I always feel the games I lose could have been games I won. With that said, I have a high tendency go on tilt after every consecutive loss, this impacts my playing 3x more than my team feeding, or the occasional lag spike. Why? Because I play to win. If I instead played to have fun, and winning was a bi-product of me having fun then I can assure you that I would be in a much much better spot.

But I cant get over myself for even a quarter of the games I play. Dont be like me and get butthurt because you lost to a fed Kassadin, just accept it and move on. Playing to win ruins your experience because you will take every last little detail as a game breaking event. Dont play to win kids.