Why I Didn't Make the NHL (My Biggest Regret)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ม.ค. 2020
- Growing up in Canada my biggest dream was to be a professional hockey player in the NHL. Unfortunately, I failed, and it's one of my biggest regrets.
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Have you failed to achieve a dream of yours? What lesson did you take away from it?
Worse- I still don't have one in my thirties... :3
hey!! always love seeing your comments here. appreciate you sticking around all these years. Any smaller goals right now?
@@GameQuitters thanks for remembering me =]
I'm learning python for the n-th time, but once again reached the part where it's very frustrating and boring... I dunno, maybe some opportunity will show up unexpectedly or something will seem "worthwhile" eventually.
I actually visited your forums yesterday, after like ~1 year. A lot of interesting people and their life situations. Just couldn't find any angle how to contribute to the discussion(s).
I hope you personally are doing great! =]
@@movement2contact passion and purpose can be tough to find but they are there, and usually right in front of our faces we just aren't seeing the connection yet. At least that's how it worked in my experience. Hang in there :)
got expelled from uni, but actually regret not leaving sooner. Still play games and read the lore of fav universes, content to do so till the day I die. Anything wrong with me?
No dreams no aspirations beside getting a better PC and a job that pays more.
Just watched two of your videos with my 7 and 9 year olds. It’s great to be able to discuss with them how choices we make now can affect our life outcome and opportunities we have in future. Thanks for your thoughtful, reflective videos.
Thank you so much for this video. I quit my senior year of high school (my biggest regret like you) and I just got back from my first year of college. Now I am working 40 hours a week and training hockey again. Been hanging with people less and focusing on myself (on june 8 it will be one year no vaping, have really lessened my drinking and basically quit smoking weed all together to get my lungs back for the ice) My goal is to make it to the show, even if I end up being a little older than your average rookie. I plan on taking a gap year (and probably dropping out) to pursue my goal (I'm only 19, so it's now or never). Great video, you just earned a sub. Cheers
I really hope you go through with this, I turned 22 this year and hockey was taken away from me a few years ago due to financial hardship. There’s not a minute that goes by that I don’t think about it, I just started training again, trying to lose 40 lbs before January and pay for on and off ice training, I don’t care how hard it’s going to be because I can’t picture myself doing anything else. The most important thing for you and I is that we work at maximum capacity to make this possible, so once it’s all said and done there are no “what ifs” only “what is”. I’ll see you at the top
Thank you for this story! I love how you presented this part of your life. I wish I could give it more than just a like. It feels like you really put your heart into it. Thank you!!
One footnote and one question, I hope you don't mind.
Sorry if I'm over-analyzing, but I find it so interesting that you don't really regret not succeeding. (At least that's what I got from what you said, I may be wrong of course.) It's more about knowing that you didn't try enough, did your best. I imagine if you did your best, you wouldn't regret it. You can't really control if you succeed or not. It may depend on the situation, your genes, other players, coincidences, luck, coaches ... Plus like you said, chances are small. But you can control whether you work hard or you don't. And your internal critic/audience knows it and is tormenting you because of it.
On a personal note: what do you do to not become consumed by regret looking back to your past? That's one thing that keeps pushing me back to gaming, even though I did the 90 day break many many times. I'm 35 and missed opportunities just seem to pile up.
Thanks - glad you enjoyed it. Yes you are correct, it's more regret for not giving myself a better chance to succeed, not whether or not I did succeed. What I do to not be consumed is just about acceptance. It is what it is, no need to resist it but embracing how it's played a part in helping you become who you are today - honoring the lesson by doing better in the future so it doesn't go to waste.
Hi Cam I just wanted to come and thank you for your eye-opening content I can't describe how my life changed since I read the book respawn.
I was someone programmed by everyone around to be shy : I used to get bullied by students, got mistakenly punished by a teacher once, and was falsely accused of talking mad s**t about a girl... All of that made me develop unhealthy beliefs about the world and myself, things like everyone is and how stupid I look to others and how no one wants to talk to me as I'm a very boring guy etc... and I guess my family didn't see anything wrong with me too (1- neither of my parents hang out with old friends much and aren't extroverted. 2- since my parents weren't that extroverted they saw nothing wrong with me "for now" since I was getting good grades, well yes they're the get good grades for good job type, and I still get into arguments with them about it) but later on when my social anxiety peaked the marks fell down with it as I couldn't concentrate on studying and on that time everyone on my family started teasing and blaming me for being bad at talking to others which crippled me even more that it left me the only possible thing I could do at that time -video games. After a while I couldn't help but look up the internet looking for solutions of social anxiety and shyness and by fate I found out your blog and realized how I was relying on games as a safety behaviour to avoid the changes as they were looking scary I began the detox months ago but relapsed last week now I'm starting all over again for real this time and continue studying hard on my last year and then hopefully going to college even though I have no idea which college to enroll in and not to mention how everyone wants me to go study medical college (money).
To keep it short thank you for helping me and lots of others wasting their precious time on games -well yes they can be fun in the short term but they will never be helpful in the long term :)
Sincerely,
Halkawt
PS ... It took me a full hour to write all of this I wish I didn't bore you to death XD
Thanks! So awesome to hear the book helped you.
Great video. It just goes to show how addiction can consume us, not only in the short term but in the long term too. I guess the answer is to start winning at the game of life.
thanks buddy!
I feel this way about bodybuilding as weird as that sounds. I remember being aged 13 and picking up a Flex magazine and seeing Ronnie Coleman and his rivalry with Jay Cutler. I decided at that moment that I wanted to be like them. So, I started lifting weights all the time, becoming more athletic at school, etc. Then.... I got a PS2. It didn't stop me from lifting weights but then when I made some friends who were hardcore gamers, that was it. It went out the window. Went from playing maybe 1-2 hours a day age thirteen to 16 hours per day at age twenty. Then I fluctuated since to be between 4-10 hours a day. Sometimes I still do 16.
You seem very calm in your video but me... I'm livid over the whole thing. Thanks to those friends I grew up with, being hardcore gamers... they're still the same. And.. it's no surprise that... I'm the same. Just so mad that my life has been a complete waste thanks to gaming.
One year later. You can still do it. Go to exercise and take some steroids. You can get a shape!
I think there are a many factors why one doesn't make the NHL or major junior which is more or less out of one's control in one's youth. Just to name a few: quality of competition, financial and time dedication of one's parents, the interest and competitiveness of the individual at a young age. This actually means there are many that could have made it to a high level in hockey, but grew up to be other things simply because the above points did not line up. Of those individuals that do have the above three lined up, then there are other factors which come in to play, such as growth - both talent wise and physically, not getting injured and also being in a position to get scouted.
I wish i tried to to really make it in hockey when i had the chance
I would like to know how to have a career in the nhl as someone from new Zealand, we have never had an nhl player from this country but there's someone who might soon and I would love to make it there
I was just looking at season points records in each of the WHL, OHL and QMJHL. There are names over the past decades that you’d think, he scored 150+ points in junior but never made it to the NHL(or barely played a few games). How’s that possible you think to yourself? I’m sure A LOT have a similar story to yours. Maybe some suffered serious injuries. Maybe some thought that they were cruising through juniors and how could they NOT make it to the next levels. I’m convinced it’s 1)work ethic2)being drafted in the right spot3)staying healthy4)accepting whatever role you’re asked of, regardless of how offensively gifted you WERE in jrs5) never think you deserve to be there, think you have to continue to earn it6) stay away from abusing any substances and have an elite diet/sleep regime.
And that ego. Never think you’re better than anyone, and never think you can’t become what you want to become. Guys who were drafted in late rounds or not at all, becoming career NHL players or superstars. In the age of social media, seek them out and ask them. When it’s said it’s a privilege to play professional sports for a living, believe it.
ive got a gym membership, playing 16aa and gonna go 18aaa next year, gonna be a primary varsity goalie for the next 3 years, and i can go juniors through black bears or youngstown phantoms and gonna try for ohio state, but im 5'6 and im 15, running out of time
Do everything you can to make the most of it. Work hard on both your strength fitness and flexibility to avoid injury. Most of all enjoy the journey and the fun of the game, it’s something I look back on now and wish I enjoyed the opportunity to play and be competitive in a sport. I’m 34 now, very different life. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Im gonna make it to the NHL, what makes me different from other kids is my focus and will power I have a focus that’s on another level. what makes me stand out is how serious I take the game !
What are you doing everyday to make it happen?
What makes you different from another kids is that you have the money to pay for all the travel teams, and camps and other kids don’t
@@markuscook5570 Waking up when you don’t, hustling and working out daily.
@@danielquiros8849 I came from a poor family, don’t assume things buddy.
Don’t forget about talent and natural physical ability. I wish you luck but you gotta have talent. NHL players are an elite few.
Same exact thing happened to me, if I’m 14 and train hard enough now could I make it?
No if you work hard enough i can make it.
what level do you play
Love the videos :D
thanks!
My dream is to have a dream...
I'm still working on it... Ain't quittin' just yet...
Is that Crowchild Twin Arena in Calgary?
yep! grew up playing there a lot for crowfoot :)
Thank soooooooo much
im playing u16 aa as a 14 year old am i on the right track
how u doing now?
@@nevisss played top line on my highschool team as a freshman, playing u16 aa and u18 aa next year
@@liammonaghan4785 why not go AAA if your playing that high
@@liammonaghan4785 Damn good shit. I'm getting back and trying to find a league to play in rather than play for my acha d2 school this year. Good luck bro
eh, dont sweat it. video games & sports are nearly the same thing, one just gives you exercise. theyre fun but both a waste of time
even the extremely devoted who sacrifice everything dont make it, our ability to do things is decided by forces beyond our powers
becoming pro in esports or regular sports is super rare, and sometimes you get to the top and ask yourself why you even did it, then realize its too hard and wasnt worth it and quit
@Random Guy you can do gaming and exercise though
I can play beat saber and it's on pair with tennis in exercise. What's the difference?
fair enough
I disagree. Even if he went to a Division 3 school and got a great career in the sports/recreation industry he would have WAAAY less regret.
I disagree exercise is never a waste of time. Exercise is essential for health. The satisfaction from physical activities is different from gaming satisfaction. You see the results in real time. When u exercise you strengthen your body, lungs, looks and immune system. Endorphins are released. You sleep easier after a good day of exercise. Don’t EVER say exercise and gaming are the same thing. One wrecks your body and clutters your mind, addictive thoughts and the other upgrades + enhances your mind and body.