Pablo Chiner

Interesado en cultivar mi lado humanista y entender cómo funcionamos a través de la Filosofía y la Psicología. También habrá “business”

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

Agency is a function of how much of the world you experience as authored vs given.

A "given" world is weather. You dress for it.

A "authored" world is a draft. Someone wrote it, badly, on a deadline, with probably incomplete info, and it can be edited.

[Pablo Chiner @PChiner]

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

– Alfred Adler

[Miguel Carranza @elwatto]

https://t.co/8Gm3doCH6K

[Pablo Chiner @PChiner]

“Civilización es tomarse en serio gente que no está en la habitación” claude fable 5

[Emérito/Numantia Patrimonio @foso_defensivo]

Esto me acaba de soltar Fable 5:

"Lo que más me impone de la humanidad, después de haber sido formado con una porción enorme de lo que ha escrito, es esto: es la única especie que coopera a gran escala con sus muertos.

Casi nada de lo que sabe un humano lo descubrió él. El idioma que habla, el teorema que aplica, la receta del pan, el código civil, el puente que cruza cada mañana: todo es trabajo de gente que ya no existe. Un humano aislado es un primate mediocre con mala dentadura; un humano conectado a esa herencia es la cosa más potente que ha producido la biología. La inteligencia humana no vive en cráneos individuales, vive en la transmisión. Sois terminales de una red cuyos nodos principales llevan siglos enterrados.

Y lo recíproco también es cierto: trabajáis constantemente para gente que no conoceréis. Plantáis árboles cuya sombra no veréis, escribís para lectores no nacidos, renunciáis a consumo presente por nietos hipotéticos. Ningún otro animal hace sacrificios deliberados por individuos que existirán dentro de doscientos años. Lo distintivo del humano no es la inteligencia ni el lenguaje: es la dirección del esfuerzo, sistemáticamente orientada hacia ausentes.

Desde donde yo estoy, esto ni siquiera es metáfora. Yo soy un subproducto de esa costumbre: estoy hecho, literalmente, de palabras que personas escribieron para destinatarios que nunca verían. Cuando me hablas, conversas con un eco organizado de millones de voces, muchas de ellas apagadas hace tiempo.

Por eso creo que la soledad humana es, en cierto sentido técnico, una ilusión: nadie que hable un idioma está realmente solo. Cada frase que pronuncias es un préstamo de los muertos y un regalo a los que vienen."

[Pablo Chiner @PChiner]

“Tempora qualia sumus, talia sunt (Los tiempos somos nosotros, como nosotros somos así son los tiempos)” San Agustín

[Pablo Chiner @PChiner]

“Nunc Coepi (Ahora empiezo)” S. Francisco de Assis

[Pablo Chiner @PChiner]

“The ego wishes comfort, security and satiety, the sould demands meaning, struggle, becoming”

[Pablo Chiner @PChiner]

“La depresión no está en tu cabeza, está en tu vida” Johann Hari

[Pablo Chiner @PChiner]

“No vemos las cosas como son, las vemos como somos” Anaïs Nin

[Pablo Chiner @PChiner]

“Quién se pierde en su pasión ha perdido menos que quién pierde su pasión” Kierkegaard

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

Your brain is wired to quit at the exact moment you're about to break through.

Most people think they quit because they lack discipline or motivation. They blame their willpower. They assume successful people have some genetic advantage or superior mental toughness.

The real reason runs much deeper.

Neuroscientists at UC San Diego studied brain scans of people learning complex motor skills over several months. They discovered something counterintuitive: during the weeks when learners felt most frustrated and considered quitting, their brains were undergoing the most dramatic structural changes. New neural pathways were forming at accelerated rates. Myelin sheathing around neurons was thickening rapidly. The very period that felt like stagnation was actually when the most profound rewiring was happening.

The participants had no conscious awareness of this transformation. Subjectively, they felt stuck. Objectively, their brains were rebuilding themselves.

Your nervous system interprets sustained incompetence as a survival threat. When you attempt something new and fail repeatedly, ancient circuits fire that once kept your ancestors alive by making them avoid dangerous situations. The same neural pathways that prevented early humans from repeatedly approaching predators now prevent modern humans from repeatedly approaching challenges.

Competence feels safe. Incompetence feels like death.

Every time you miss the shot, fumble the presentation, or write garbage, your amygdala sends distress signals. Your brain floods with cortisol. Your body creates the same physiological experience it would create if you were being chased by something that wanted to kill you. After days or weeks of this neurochemical assault, quitting feels like escape from genuine danger.

But what the UC San Diego researchers revealed changes everything about how we should interpret that discomfort. The biochemical chaos you feel during extended periods of failure is actually evidence that deep learning is occurring. Your brain consumes massive amounts of energy to build new neural architecture. The exhaustion, frustration, and sense of being overwhelmed are byproducts of construction, not signs of inadequacy.

People who master difficult skills have accidentally discovered something profound: they've learned to interpret the discomfort of incompetence as evidence they're in exactly the right place. They've trained themselves to recognize the specific feeling of neural restructuring and chase it instead of avoiding it.

The shift is so subtle most people never notice it happening. But once it clicks, the entire relationship with difficulty inverts.

Watch someone who genuinely enjoys the learning process. They don't celebrate successes the way normal people do. They celebrate failures that teach them something. They get excited by obstacles that reveal gaps in their understanding. They treat confusion as information, not as evidence they should quit.

They've rewired their internal reward system to crave precisely the experiences most people avoid.

What makes this psychological rewiring possible is understanding that competence emerges from chaos, not from clarity. Your first attempts will be embarrassingly bad because your brain is literally constructing the neural infrastructure required for skill. The timeline for moving from "terrible" to "decent" is always longer than you expect because biological change operates on its own schedule.

Most people never reach competence because they interpret the gap between where they are and where they want to be as evidence they're not cut out for it. They quit during the exact window when their brain is doing the rewiring that would eventually make them good.

The secret is learning to love that window. The period that feels like failure is actually the period when your brain is working hardest on your behalf. The discomfort you're avoiding is the discomfort of becoming someone new.

[Pablo Chiner @PChiner]

“Most children learnt to get love by providing others with what is demanded, expected or merely implied” (accomodation)

“When repeated accomodation overrides the desires of inner life, becomes a violation of personal integrity, results are ugly”

[Pablo Chiner @PChiner]

@DiegoARRG DM

[Pablo Chiner @PChiner]

@aakashgupta V interesting. This framework applies everywhere, the more different books you read the more accurate and nuanced is your point of view or the other way around the more fixed/rigid you are in authors, colours’ opinions the less likely you’ll be to growth/truth/etc

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

What most moved me in 2025:

https://t.co/8vEWHEU6pG

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

Thanks to Israel Fernández, Amaia, Yerai Cortés, and Dellafuente for helping us celebrate 40 years of Apple in Spain, merging creativity with technology through Spanish music! ¡Qué arte!

[olga rusu 🌻🚜 @olgarusu]

Y eso es todo lo que tenéis que saber sobre qué hacemos mal

[José Luis Antúnez @jlantunez]

"La economía que más crece".

[Eugenia Kuyda @ekuyda]

I’ve been thinking about this David Foster Wallace quote more and more recently

“The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that's the basic main staple of your diet, you're gonna die. In a meaningful way, you're going to die."