ConscienceAction

I'm going to start this post with a weighty fact: 111.

This is the exact current weight of my hairdresser. And while he exercises his trade to groom me just before the end of his day and nimbly head to his fridge, debate and justify about it.

What is almost 100 and it is not so much. Who has had a strong complexion since he was a child. That his wife tells him that he has left over, his mother to watch and his doctor no longer says. That the passengers in adjoining seats fear him and the chairs suffer him in silence. Multiple perspectives and opinions for a single, compelling piece of information: 111.

And it is that in addition to fat, what my hairdresser has left over are data and opinions and what he lacks is informed reflection and decisions.

In the last years of galloping digitization, we doubled the amount of data each 24 months. They surround us and bombard us from screens of all sizes to overwhelm and desensitize us., comfortably shielded from criticism by our ego and fine intuition. The risk of so much data is saturation and noise. Often the trees don't let us see the forest anymore

Our challenge is to paddle with judgment, navigating from the lake of data to the river of information, from there to the edge of knowledge and finally drink the refreshing glass of applied knowledge, 21st century ambrosia.

Watch overweight statistics, is not the same as interpret well what they mean, understand its meaning in our context and finally assimilate for Activate what you need to take action. Our skillful brain always seeks to save energy attracted by automatisms and easy answers , accommodated in those that best suit the familiar context and tempted too many times by the often unfounded categorical majority opinion.

Our critical spirit, so human and more and more necessary, it atrophies to move away from our own opinion and the approach and solving of problems with criteria. We need to train skepticism, ask to listen and eagerly seek foundations and new perspectives that challenge what we think we know

If I could I would give it to my appreciated hairdresser, a screen built into your fridge door, at eye level, that prevented the opening without viewing a direct video to his conscience.

Right before attacking your lasagna, already thinking about the heavenly bacon that hides behind a skimmed yogurt, the screen would serve you reliable correlation data between overweight and coronary heart disease of the last 20 generations in your family, skipped with precise numbers on hypertension, osteoarthritis or apnea in people of the same age and weight around the world. I would top off the menu with sweet predictions about increased vitality and longevity proportional to fat loss between 1 Y 30 kilos.

Only after that video and a few moments of self-control and healthy reflection, broccoli would have a better chance of debuting that night.

Screens, data and refrigerators of the future, science advances to help us, but without conscience…no action.