00:00I wanted to show you, today I bought a book, which is this one by James Clear, called Atomic Habits.
00:11It is a book that is meant to enhance good habits, to boost intelligence, to increase one's power.
00:25And I finished reading this, which I will now summarize to incorporate it into my talk with you.
00:33by Enrique Rojas, the Spanish psychiatrist, who wrote this book together with his daughters, who are also psychiatrists and
00:42psychologists, I think.
00:43What are five tips to boost intelligence?
00:50I think these topics have been my topics.
00:57I came across them, but they are the themes of all humanity.
01:05Where does the word book come from?
01:08Where does the word book come from?
01:10What does "book" mean?
01:15Book comes from liver, they tell us.
01:18Etymology is a very strange science.
01:21There have been people who have questioned the etymology as being a little manipulated.
01:27And I say that everything is manipulated.
01:30But book comes from liver, with a B, labial.
01:38And it has to do with the inner bark of trees.
01:41It has to do with the support where the magical signs that reveal ideas, thoughts, and experiences of others were written.
01:52Finally, knowledge leads to wisdom.
01:56And in ancient mythology there was a liver, or liverpater, which means free.
02:05Free.
02:06And it had to do with, there was even a festival called Liberalia that was celebrated in March.
02:13Yes, in March before the equinox.
02:17And that it had to do with freedom of expression.
02:21If one cannot express oneself freely, one is unlikely to make much progress in life.
02:29Let's imagine that I want, I don't know, need to eat, or drink water, or I need help, or I need directions.
02:38to one address.
02:40If I can't express myself well, I'm not going to get anywhere.
02:45So anything that enhances intelligence isn't something that's useful to me.
02:52It is useful to everyone.
02:55That is why it was said in ancient times that the only way to face life with some autonomy was to...
03:03It is practicing arts that liberate us, the liberal arts.
03:10And one has to do with the expression of the word, and it has to do with learning,
03:16It has to do with reading, it has to do with habits.
03:20Habits of this man, Enrique Rojas, in his book about the will,
03:30which is called The Conquest of the Will, I learned about a phenomenon that I had observed,
03:35It even made me laugh, sometimes I'd see friends of mine buying an exercise machine, the one that
03:42be.
03:44And they would exercise one day, two days, or with luck three days, but no more than three or four days.
03:53And then there was always some excuse not to use the machine.
03:58What is the reason for that? Why does that happen? Does anyone know why?
04:06It's like whatever. I mean, not today, I want to play the piano.
04:12And now it's easier to buy a keyboard than a piano.
04:16People go and buy their little digital piano, I don't know.
04:21And excited, there I see one, now, I don't know, on YouTube, look there for some clinics, some online classes,
04:28some tutorials, some tips.
04:33And most people are left lying there.
04:37And actually, English.
04:39I remember someone asking me, "Hey, where can I learn good English?"
04:43I told him, go to duolingo.com.
04:46I met people in Europe who, when they had to travel to Greece, for example,
04:50and I learned Greek, or German, or whatever language, on duolingo.com.
04:55It's free. It was a format for bringing people together, I know.
05:00But seriously, yes, seriously.
05:03And the people, oh, how entertaining and all, once, twice.
05:08People always abandoned everything they loved.
05:14They rarely had the opportunity to have what they wanted,
05:17whether it's training, shaping their bodies, learning an art, a trade, or a language.
05:26Generally, ordinary people, who are the majority, gave up.
05:34Because?
05:36Why abandon something?
05:39And will that apply to people?
05:41Let's imagine this case.
05:43No, when I have a partner, like, like, I already know.
05:45When someone like that comes along, I'll be so happy.
05:47And suddenly that person would appear and you wouldn't have the willpower to maintain that relationship.
05:58Or even further, the person could get married and, no, when they have children, then...
06:04And she has children, and the children end up abandoned in the system.
06:10And people justifying themselves for abandoning them, for not applying any will to them and handing them over to the system.
06:19The entire drama of human existence rests on this premise.
06:26And that's because people who don't practice their liberal arts, who don't apply their intelligence,
06:35that they do not use and renew the software on their main computer, which is here,
06:44They will generally swell the ranks of people who pass through life without leaving a mark,
06:48with the same complaints as all generations, perhaps disguised in different settings,
06:53but basically people who never reached their goals.
07:01They lived half-lives, as if they never realized the power that was within them.
07:12What can be done?
07:14Well, understanding how our intelligence works, how our mind works, how our will works.
07:26When people, for example, buy an exercise machine,
07:30or they buy a keyboard because they want to learn piano,
07:34or they spend money on an internet plan to take online classes,
07:40They generally make all those decisions from their own head,
07:46a real decision, but without understanding how human beings function.
07:53Human beings have muscles that help us move,
07:58Going from here to there, from there to here, what do I know.
08:02But that's not just for the physical body.
08:05There are muscles that activate internal processes related to willpower.
08:11Willpower is a muscle.
08:14Willpower is not something that is given like breathing, which is done automatically.
08:23You breathe in and automatically exhale, and breathe in and exhale.
08:30Whether we breathed or just threw up, we would drown.
08:33There is an automatic back-and-forth process that helps us stay alive.
08:37These automatic processes happen on their own.
08:40And does willpower just happen on its own?
08:42If I want to play piano, all I have to do is buy a piano.
08:45If I want to exercise, all I have to do is buy an exercise machine.
08:48Can I join a gym?
08:50No.
08:52There is a muscle called willpower that is activated in the following way.
08:58And that's what's in this book.
09:04Atomic habits.
09:07If I improve by 1% daily, to put it in mathematical terms, in a year I will be 37
09:19times better than I am now.
09:23I'm speaking in mathematical terms.
09:25That is compound interest, which is also used to control countries through usury and debt.
09:31And what do I know?
09:32But that actually applies to everything.
09:34If I advance just a little bit, but just a tiny bit, 1%.
09:41But on a daily basis, after a year, I didn't advance by 1%.
09:48Compound interest makes what I am now multiply 37 times.
09:56Not even double, not even times 2, not even times 10.
10:0237 times.
10:04That applies to positive things that I add to myself.
10:08Or also for negative things that I start to eliminate.
10:13Or acquired habits.
10:15Bad habits.
10:17This is what all the wise men of Ancient Greece spoke of.
10:22This is the key.
10:24For the will.
10:27For the will.
10:27If I apply a little bit of willpower every day.
10:30It's like a person who is going out for a run.
10:32Have those people noticed?
10:33I'm going for a run now.
10:34No, I run 20 kilometers every day.
10:38And maybe a person goes for a 2-kilometer run one day.
10:41But most likely his body ached the other day and the lactic acid stiffened it.
10:47Because he doesn't have the habit.
10:48He doesn't have the muscle.
10:50And his will won't give him that later.
10:52As if to say, with the pain one is going to feel.
10:55Therefore, it works like this.
10:57Little by little.
10:58As this guy says.
11:00If I improve by one percent.
11:03Every day.
11:05In one year.
11:06I'm going to be 37 times better.
11:10This book is called Atomic Habits.
11:14Basically, everyone has talked about this topic.
11:18Since the time of Socrates and his friends who always got together to eat lunch and dinner.
11:24All the books by Plato and Aristotle are included there.
11:27They were always in quotation marks, dinners, in conversations.
11:30And the conversations are written down.
11:31The books of the ancient sages are entertaining.
11:35Basically, practicing arts that free us a little bit every day.
11:39Notice that this book talks again about having everything in order.
11:44To create a little paradise.
11:47The same thing I've been talking about for years.
11:49They all end up in the same place.
11:51It's like that first supposed task that human beings had here was to take care of a paradise.
11:57That remains the task at hand.
12:00And we are paradise.
12:02Each.
12:03Or we can be a hellish place.
12:06Or a garbage dump.
12:08Remember.
12:09This is pure mathematics.
12:12If I improve by 1% every day, after a year I will be 37 times better.
12:20better.
12:24I remember when I used to give guitar lessons.
12:27I told the students not to play for more than 15 minutes, but 15 minutes.
12:31And if they want to play more, then more.
12:33But at least 15.
12:34But 15 is very little.
12:36Do it.
12:37But do it every day.
12:39And when you start doing it, that's when willpower begins to activate.
12:44A path begins to emerge in a neural network that we possess.
12:48And those paths are like a slide made between the rock or through the jungle.
12:54A clear path that one flows on.
12:57Not at first.
12:58It's like walking through the jungle.
12:59We need to start cutting branches.
13:01We don't have usual ways of doing things.
13:04Willpower is educated in the following way.
13:09The demand becomes pleasant.
13:12For example, this is mine.
13:14This is super personal.
13:16I was watching a recital, a show, a concert by some Australian musicians called the Bee Gees.
13:28In '89, I think.
13:31And I saw it.
13:32Whole.
13:33And I enjoyed it.
13:34Sitting there in the front row.
13:35Those two days.
13:36And I said that.
13:52And a bunch more songs.
13:57And I wrote them.
14:00I played my guitar and spent the whole day, a whole afternoon, writing the songs I liked the most.
14:10Those.
14:10So, I play music with what I like the most.
14:16I'm not interested in what the other person likes, what's fashionable, or anything like that.
14:20People are going to like it.
14:23No.
14:25It has to please me.
14:28There are people, for example, who do the same thing.
14:30No, it's just that I want to be famous.
14:32I want to play guitar like so-and-so.
14:35I want to stand on a stage and have people admire me.
14:39I want to enjoy myself.
14:43Willpower works in the same way.
14:45We must make the demand pleasant.
14:51I advance my gifts and talents with a program that is right for me.
14:57According to my tastes, according to my instinct.
15:02And I apply that to everything.
15:05I'm not interested in dressing fashionably, I'm not interested in anything.
15:11I am guided by what I like.
15:14And if I think it's good for me and beneficial, I move forward.
15:17And if I don't stop, I'm not here to please anyone or anyone.
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26:20If people were listening.
26:21If people were listening.
26:22If people saw debates, conversations, people talking.
26:25And of course, if they can read, if they have the habit of reading, great.
26:28But if not, don't worry too much.
26:32Wisdom comes by hearing.
26:36Reading is a way of hearing directly with the mind.
26:40But only to hear.
26:41Many people have become very wise.
26:44Good.
26:45It will be until tomorrow then.
26:48See you.
26:48Bye.
26:49Bye.
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