There are only 2 profiles that I coach:
- amateur players who want to go pro
- professional players who want to win trophies
If you don’t want to be the best, you can stop reading and we are not a good fit.
My services are expensive and I’m not going to take money from people who do not invest on themselves.
How to know in 2 minutes if you are not going to achieve your goals?
You wouldn’t believe how easy it is to tell whether a player is going to fail in esports.
Just ask them one simple question:
Can you name three things you’ve deliberately done in the past three months, knowing you’d suck at them at first?
Most players can’t even name one.
Why?
Because they spend almost all of their time doing things they’re already comfortable with.
They keep grinding games.
They repeat the same routines.
They avoid the activities that would expose their weaknesses because being bad at something is uncomfortable.
And that’s exactly why they stay stuck.
If you can’t answer this question either, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re lazy.
It means you’re not deliberately training the skills that matter most.
You’re spending too much time protecting your ego and not enough time building your future.
Elite performers don’t organize their days around what they’re good at.
They organize them around what they’re still bad at.
That’s why they improve at a pace that most players will never understand.
Why do most players stay in their comfort zone, even though they dream of reaching the top?
If you want to reach the highest level in esports, you have to improve at an insane pace.
Yet most players spend days, weeks, months, even years, doing the same things over and over again.
They play.
They queue again.
They repeat the same routines.
Yes, they improve.
But nowhere near fast enough to reach their goals.
So why do they keep following a strategy that is almost guaranteed to fail?
Because most players aren’t driven by the desire to become great.
They’re driven by fear.
They avoid anything that might make them look incompetent.
They avoid anything that might make them feel uncomfortable.
They avoid anything that might expose how much they still have to learn.
As a result, their training isn’t designed to maximize improvement.
It’s designed to protect their ego.
And a training plan built to protect your ego will never take you to the top.
You’ll spend thousands of hours training only to become average.
Your potential is almost gone when you’re driven by fear
By the time you’ve reached this point, you’re probably already making excuses.
You’re looking for a way to avoid facing what you already know is true.
“I still have time.”
“I’ll start next week.”
“I’m too busy right now.”
“I’m not even full-time yet.”
“This project isn’t worth giving 100%. I’ll do it when I find a better team.”
What you’re doing isn’t planning.
It’s escaping.
You say you want to become a champion, yet every decision is made to protect yourself from discomfort instead of getting closer to your goal.
Why?
Because when fear is driving your decisions, your potential is almost gone.
Every challenge feels overwhelming.
Every difficult step feels like something you can postpone.
So you convince yourself that you just need more time.
You don’t.
Every month you delay is another month spent reinforcing the wrong version of yourself.
You still think more volume will save you
If I had to summarize your entire strategy for becoming a champion, I could do it in just two words: do more.
The failure rate in esports is close to 99.99%.
And yet, your plan to become part of the 0.01% is based on the most obvious strategy imaginable.
It’s so obvious that even a five-year-old could have come up with it.
More games.
More scrims.
More hours.
More effort.
The problem?
Doing more is exactly what’s killing your chances of succeeding.
Why?
Because your current way of training is full of mistakes.
And every extra hour you invest without fixing them only reinforces those mistakes.
You’re right about one thing, though.
You will get better.
More precisely, you’ll become exceptionally good at staying bad.
You don’t need more volume.
You need a system that helps you identify, eliminate, and prevent your mistakes from coming back.
You believe you are doing your best right now
You probably are.
The problem is that your best has been shaped by years of fear, bad habits, and ineffective training.
You’ve spent years repeating the same mistakes, avoiding the same discomfort, and reinforcing the same limitations.
And after doing that for long enough, you stop realizing how much potential you’ve buried.
Right now, it takes you weeks, or even months, to make noticeable progress.
If your goal is to reach the highest level in esports, that’s nowhere near fast enough.
You need to be making hundreds of improvements every single day if you want to reach the top.
And I can already guess what you’re thinking: “that’s impossible!”
That reaction tells me everything I need to know.
Every player I’ve worked with believed the exact same thing before we started.
Yet all of them reached that pace of improvement, and most of them weren’t even full-time players before going pro.
The difference wasn’t talent, motivation, nor intelligence.
They simply had no idea how much potential had been buried under years of fear, bad habits, and ineffective ways of training.
Neither do you.
You’re measuring yourself against the worst possible benchmark
How do you know whether you’re improving fast enough?
Most players answer that question in the worst possible way : they compare themselves to the people around them.
If you’re stuck in Tier 3, you compare yourself to other Tier 3 players.
As long as they aren’t improving faster than you, you convince yourself you’re on the right track.
If you’re aiming for Tier 1, you compare yourself to other Tier 2 players.
As long as they’re not pulling ahead, you assume you’re doing fine.
And if you’re already a pro?
You compare yourself to the pros around you instead of the best players in the world.
Once again, as long as they’re not outperforming you by much, you tell yourself everything is okay.
This is one of the worst ways to evaluate your chances of succeeding.
Let me make it obvious to you, think about Formula 1:
If your goal is to win the championship, who should you study?
The drivers in 17th place, because you are 18th most of the time?
Or the ones always leading the races?
The answer is obvious: you learn from the persons who have already achieved what you want.
Yet in esports, you do the exact opposite.
You’re running in 18th place, looking at the driver in 17th, and telling yourself you’re doing fine because they’re only a few seconds ahead.
Meanwhile, the leader keeps pulling away.
Esports is a race, and if you want to reach the top, someone already occupying that spot has to be replaced.
And if you want to take that spot, you better stop comparing yourself to people who are just as lost as you are
Your standards are holding you back, and you don’t even realize it
The last obstacle is the most dangerous one.
Because it’s almost invisible.
When you spend years comparing yourself to the wrong people, you slowly adopt their standards.
You start accepting limits that have no place in the mind of a future champion.
You start treating limitations as if they were normal.
And before you know it, you’re making the exact same excuses as the people who never make it.
You probably think it’s normal to tilt when things don’t go your way.
You probably think it’s normal to get frustrated after a loss.
You probably think there’s no point in giving your best when your teammates have already given up.
But every time you accept one of those behaviors as “normal,” you’re lowering the standard you’re holding yourself to.
Champions don’t have different goals.
They have different standards.
A champion masters their emotions.
A champion treats every loss as information, not as a personal attack.
A champion keeps fighting, even when everyone else has already given up.
Your results will never rise above the standards you accept.
And if your standards are the same as everyone else’s, your results will be too.
If you want to become a champion, start working like one
So what is my coaching, really?
It’s simple.
Every session has one objective: destroy as many barriers to your performance as possible, as quickly as possible.
Right now, you believe you’re doing everything you can to become a pro.
You’re not.
You’re not even close.
Need proof?
If becoming a professional player or a champion was truly your priority, what should you be working on today?
Not just playing the game.
You should be:
- Mastering the game itself. That’s where you already spend almost all of your time, and ironically, it’s the one area that almost everyone overinvests in.
- Reviewing every mistake you make so you can eliminate it as quickly as possible. Let’s be honest: you barely do this, even though it’s one of the highest-return activities in esports.
- Training your mental game so pressure, frustration, and setbacks stop controlling your performances. You know it’s important. Yet you’ve probably never trained it systematically.
- Theorycrafting and experimenting to create new solutions instead of waiting for someone else to discover them first. Champions don’t just follow the META. They shape it.
- Becoming the best teammate possible. Communication, leadership, accountability, emotional control… these aren’t personality traits. They’re skills. And like every other skill, they can be trained.
- Building your visibility. If a recruiter visits your profile today, what would convince them to contact you? Your current strategy is basically: “If I become good enough, someone will magically notice me.” This will never happen.
Look at that list again.
To maximize your chances of reaching the top, you should be developing every one of those areas.
Instead, you’ve built your entire career around just one: playing the game.
And then you wonder why your progress is so slow.
This isn’t a lack of effort.
It’s a lack of direction.
When you’ve spent years reinforcing the wrong habits, your belief in your own potential slowly disappears.
You stop playing to become the best.
You start playing not to fail. And by doing so, you will fail miserably.
And that’s how most esports careers end.
Not with a lack of talent.
Not with a lack of passion.
But with someone who convinced themselves they were doing everything they could… while avoiding almost everything that actually mattered.
How does the coaching work?
I don’t sell one-off sessions.
They are a waste of your time and mine.
Real improvement doesn’t happen in a single conversation.
It happens when you identify a problem, apply a solution, measure the results, and adjust until the problem disappears.
That’s why I only work through a 4-session program.
We meet once a week for about an hour.
Each session follows the same objective:
- We identify the biggest barrier currently slowing down your progress.
- We understand exactly why it’s happening.
- We build a concrete plan to eliminate it.
- You apply that plan during the following week.
Every session builds on the previous one.
This isn’t therapy.
This isn’t motivation.
This is performance engineering.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost?
The program costs 241.20€, paid upfront after an initial discussion where I’ll show you exactly how I work and we will determine whether my approach is the right fit for you.
Can we continue after the four sessions?
Yes.
If we both believe there’s still valuable work to do, we simply continue with another 4-session program.
What if I’m not satisfied?
If, after the second session, you don’t believe the coaching is providing enough value, I’ll give you a full refund.
No arguments.
No hidden conditions.
Can you refuse to work with me?
Yes.
If I don’t believe you’re a good fit for my approach, I’ll tell you honestly.
For example, if your goal changes and it is now simply to get a little better at the game rather than becoming a professional player, there are already countless free resources online that are more appropriate.
What if I stop putting in the effort?
We will identify why it is happening, try to solve it if you are still willing to fight for your own project.
And if we discover that you just want to do something else with your life, we will stop working together.
I’m fully committed to helping people who are fully committed to improving.
If that commitment disappears, our collaboration ends, and any unused sessions will be refunded.
Will your coaching guarantee that I become a professional player?
No.
Your success depends on what you do between our sessions.
I’ll give you the best system I can.
You still have to execute it.
Can I become a pro in one month?
No.
If you’re starting from scratch, it may take a year, or longer.
The speed of your progress depends on how quickly you’re willing to change.
Do I need to be full-time to make it?
Not necessarily.
You need an effective way of working.
Most players waste an incredible amount of time when they are finally in full-time.
It’s like they won the lottery, and they are not doing anything with this opportunity.
When your training becomes intentional, you can make extraordinary progress, even while working a full-time job.
How do I contact you for some coaching?
If you’d like to work with me, you can contact me through either of the following:
- You can send a DM on X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/Joseph_NguyenJV
- Or you can send me an email: giau-nguyen@nguyen-mindset.com
When you reach out, be clear about your goal and include any relevant information that will help me understand your situation and why you’re looking for coaching.
From there, I’ll ask you a few questions to determine whether you’re a good fit for my approach.
If we both believe we’re the right fit, we’ll schedule an initial discussion.
During that call, I’ll learn more about your situation, show you how a coaching session works, answer any questions you may have, and explain the next steps if you decide to move forward.