The universe inside your mind. Your limits arent mine
[Applause]
good evening everyone
such a pleasure to be here and to see
all your faces under those masks
i know we wish could be different but
let’s make the best of it
um as we have seen um today i’m gonna be
talking about the universes of your mind
and how do i think that your limits are
not the same as mine
we start i have to make uh two
clarifications
first of all i’m a theater fan and
because i’m a theater fan
i will be developing in different acts
so i will try to make an act one act two
i will try to reach a climax and then i
will try to reach a following action
therefore what i’m going to be making is
i’m gonna be making a bit more
interactive and hopefully along the way
you will be able to make connections
about what i have been doing
and how and what which type of meaning
or significance i want to express
a second clarification is that i’m not
like a rule or any type of wise person
with the knowledge of showing you
different type of things
or learnings or lessons about all type
of psychological things
so that’s why i’m not aiming for you to
like literally change
your life when you walk out of here
today but i just want you to
at some point take my personal
experience just build it up
and hopefully you will be able to learn
something
as my act one i will just say this
a good place to look for wisdom is where
you least expect it to find
in the mind of your opponents you can
see your higher capacities
do you understand what i mean with this
yes
no let’s do something let’s keep just
doubting the earth
and let’s continue and move on
now i just want to say something to open
up
your brain is extremely extraordinary
and now you wonder why well
do you know what these two like pretty
pictures here i haven’t seen one
or have in common well
actually one is a photo of the galaxy
and the other one is a photo of your
princess it’s really cool well
well what i think about this and
something i found out
is that there’s something known as the
neural forest
the new forest consists on all the
connections that your neuron makes
and because of all these connections
you’re able
to remember all different things maybe
for 20 years
you haven’t been able to i don’t know
sing a song
remember a specific event or just being
able
to i don’t know smile because of a
simple aspect or i don’t know something
about your life
but that’s why the mind is so incredible
that at some point somebody will shut up
and say hey do you remember when we did
this
you’ll be like oh my god that’s true i
remember that
so that’s why today um
i just want to tell you something that
the mind
a lot of scientists are trying to
explain how much
storage like if we are type of like
laptop or something
we have inside of our brains even though
it’s unknown
they say we have around uh one million
gigabytes
and now you’re thinking well chris can
you like start talking a bit more of
like
come back to english because this is a
bit complex
well let’s assume you have a video
recorder and let’s assume because i
don’t know who has a video recorder
today
um because of netflix and disney posts
and whatsoever but let’s assume you have
one
okay so you turn it on and you wanna
record it
24 hours for seven days a week
for literally 12 months and then
you’re going to do that same action for
300 years
that’s how much it will take you to fill
a million gigabytes of storage
and now it’s still like what does still
mean or what
i’m referring to this specific thing
well
um in 1 million gigabytes
you can have around 2
592 hours of content like
that’s the amount of like hours of video
you will have
well um let’s say you like um game of
thrones
well game of thrones from season 1 to
season 8 has
72 hours of content well
i mean it might be cool and it might be
enjoyable to watch game of thrones from
start to the end in marathons and
whatsoever
but now let’s put it like this what if i
tell you that with the capacity of
storage
or the capacity of your mind i just
talked about you can watch
game of thrones from season 1 to season
8
36 000 times and you will still have
storage
in the back of your mind to be able to
keep watching more
and more and more
well now you’re thinking am i in a brain
101 with christian
and like i’m here to talk about the
brain and
neuroscience and whatsoever and the
answer is no i’m not here for that
um but in conclusion about what i just
thought about the brain and scientifical
stuff
your brain is amazing and that’s what
makes us human
that’s an amazing gadget and tool that
it will be a bit of a shame if we don’t
take advantage of it
now there’s something i don’t
specifically
agree with with either how we’re
learning
or either how we are expected to act
in different type of either academics or
social interactions
um just open up with something
the fact that uh we can only use the ten
percent
of our mind it’s a myth it’s not true
and you actually use ten percent of your
mind only
and even when you’re dreaming like when
you’re asleep you’re already using that
ten percent just imagine what you’re
right away
so now i just want to make this small
question
um to all to all people who are here
please can you raise your hand if you
have
ever felt that you have been close or
you have met someone who is at least
a little bit smarter than you um me
myself
i’ve met a lot of people and
i mean that’s really cool like being
able you know to meet someone who has a
higher capacity or
intellect in some sort of irs but that
doesn’t necessarily mean
that the person is smarting you in all
sense
there are ways in which you can actually
prove yourself improve others
even though it’s not necessarily that
high value you house a person
now um let’s reach
what i call the climax and it’s time for
a story time
um and let’s go a bit deeper and
personal in this part of the story
so at some point of my life
i start thinking that my brain has the
only capacity
of having perhaps 200 gigawatts of
storage
i closed my mind in saying well i cannot
learn more than here
i already been studying five hours i’ve
been already gone through half of the
book
and that’s it that’s my limit i will not
be able to go beyond
and i start thinking a lot of things and
this
highly affected my self-esteem in such a
point
i one morning woke up and said myself
why did my national committee send me
here
um like it could have been
any other guatemalan uh from my
generation
who could have been he sent here and
said hey um
maybe that person will be doing
something better than what you’re doing
today
and then uh during the last summer break
i started thinking that all these type
of things and and just have a big moment
of realization
and thought wow the fact that i’m not
able
to do this doesn’t mean that i cannot
shine and be as good as i can be in
other areas of my life
perhaps for me one of the things i’m
able to do is
in here standing up and talking to you
but perhaps for somebody else
is doing an amazing drawing for somebody
else is writing an amazing poem
or for somebody else it’s just
expressing yourself and being
who you are
this moment of realization hit me so
hard
that i just start thinking wow
i can actually make a change even though
i don’t score
the highest um scores perhaps in math or
chemistry
maybe that’s not the point that i’m here
or i was made for
i’m not saying i’m giving up but i’m
saying
that even though here i’m not in my
highest point
that doesn’t mean that tomorrow i cannot
make a change it doesn’t have to be a
big change but perhaps as long as i
change those people who are around me
and i can do it in a positive way i
think it makes a really good sense for
us to try
do other solutions what i can tell you
about this
perhaps just stop a moment
and say well why if i stop judging
myself so hard
why is if like i don’t know the person i
see my i see through the to the mirror
and i said well
boy girl or i don’t know um
non-binary person um i do believe
that you have something special in you
okay
um we most have to learn to appreciate
our brains
because as i told you it’s an amazing
gadget
now how this all what i’m talking about
is actually related to the opening quote
hopefully
you heard about it and you actually
thought about it just a little bit
and what i want to say right now is that
even though sometimes
we are in front of those who are
actually and
even demonstrate that they can be smart
in solaria
rather than feeling oh my god um they
are my opponents there are my enemies i
should beat them
uh and actually quoting what puna said
i do think that like together
we’re stronger and you and so that’s why
i think that even though there are so
many factors so that has to come into
consideration
we are still a beautiful person who has
so much capacity to do so many things
as the last thing from my side this is
something we have enjoyed today
but if you can tell your story then you
will heal yourself
but at the same time you will help other
people to do the same
this has a coba and drab cannon that i
read and
it’s one of the things that inspired me
to stand up here in front
and just share a personal story about
how i overcome
something and hopefully we’ll keep
growing because this is still not the
end for me
so thanks for coming to my channel