Ego bleed (or, keep Summoner's Rift off my chessboard!)
I've gotten into chess over the past two months. Like, really into chess. I'm learning a lot about the game and about myself as a player, even though really all there is to me as a player right now is tactical weakness and a tendency to hang pieces. But another weakness that I think demands urgent attention more than my poor tactical vision is my poor ego (in the colloquial sense of the word).
I used to play League of Legends, but I ultimately had to stop after almost a decade because my ego got too big and bruised for it. I was completely unable to accept the real work needed to get better, and this was primarily due to my ego. I think that if I had been able to catch this part of my shadow earlier in my League journey, I might have had what it took to go much further than I ended up going.
Now a new competitive chapter in my life is opened, and I've started to see "League Me" peek out from under the floorboards. Severe discouragement after losing games, thinking I'm just not smart enough for chess, or sometimes a 180 degree thought: that if I wasn't facing such bad players at my current rating, then I could actually use my opening theory to stomp them instead of having to deal with "random" moves. (This last one is a prime example of the levels of cope ego will drag you to.)
I think my biggest goal right now in chess is to disconnect myself from ego and get that potential issue nipped in the bud before it gets to where I can't manage it any longer. This unfortunately will likely require me to be much less proud of wins than I am currently, but I'll survive (and become a better player for it!)