Dr. Mario Alonso Puig - La distracción está robando tu inteligencia

Episode Date: July 21, 2026

En esta conversación con Alberto Herrera, reflexiono sobre uno de los grandes desafíos de nuestro tiempo: la pérdida de atención en un mundo lleno de distracciones.Cada vez pasamos más tiempo mirando el móvil, consumiendo contenidos que apenas recordamos y sintiendo que nos cuesta más concentrarnos, leer, pensar con claridad o disfrutar de las personas que tenemos delante.Pero quizá el verdadero problema no sea solo el teléfono.Muchas veces buscamos la distracción para no mirar hacia dentro, para escapar del desasosiego, de la falta de rumbo o de aquello que no queremos escuchar en nuestro interior.A lo largo de esta conversación hablamos sobre la adicción al móvil, el impacto de las redes sociales en nuestro cerebro, cómo la distracción afecta a nuestras relaciones y qué podemos hacer para recuperar el control de nuestra atención.Porque recuperar tu atención es recuperar tu vida.💙 Si quieres aprender a conectar con un estado interior de mayor calma y presencia, te invito a realizar gratuitamente mi Meditación del Corazón¡Suscríbete!MÁS INFORMACIÓN Y RECURSOS ÚTILES: 📖 ⁠Libros⁠🎧 ⁠Accede a mi audionewsletter gratis⁠🎟️⁠ ⁠Entradas a la nueva conferencia 2026⁠PÁGINA WEB Y REDES SOCIALES OFICIALES:🌐⁠⁠⁠Página Web⁠⁠⁠📷⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠▶️⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠📲⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠💼⁠LinkedIn⁠𝕏 ⁠Twitter

When one actively buska the distraction of form more or less conscientious, whatever that's that's interesting. We need.

We're trying many times of the desasosygo internal that we're in, of the fault of rumbo that we're

of the per die of the power that we're that's of things that, and are agitandos

for the better way to disconnecting with it is distractive. So, me is equal. Dame something that I have a little bit of color, a little of image,

for that I'm distrable. Hello, Alberto, hello, I saw some 20 or 30 videos, and with suorpe, could tell you one. Me lo pass well in red, no I'm going to negate. Compartive videos with my friends, discover groups of music

that I'd rather, I'm rio, guard a recet, and I'm learning and I'm a lot of other thing. The problem is that in that I see many videos that no more minimum and when I did count

passed hours. No me important that me pass a few. Me molesta that it's a customary in a kind of refuge that needs to my brain. No, I want that type of disconections, that are super-connections. I'm goingchated, and I think

that almost all the time. It's just how many I'll the mobile, nor see, tarned more of 30 seconds in back to blocker it. But I see that has been a minute a book or that no idea a series

that's a video that see in house without that I mean the telephone various times, when in reality, me I don't even if me wrote a little to a publication. I'm going to be frank. I'm more stunted. Noto that my head functions more,

more lent and that all costs the double of time, of force and of concentration. It's like if in my brain now occupies more impact, more information, and more videos that don't during more of 10 seconds in my memory. But the other day, of a sudden, my telephone was

rompio, coinciding with my first day of vacations. No quix one of repupto. Me Puse a proof. I went to learn, I did various Sudoku for first in my life, I went to see series, and I watched, nor for an instant,

de-blocking the mobile. I had a lot of people that wanted, and if needed to talk to someone, he called by the phone to some way. Tarded to forget what I need the mobile

the same that durer on a video of those in my my head. Now I've got to have been more disciplined with him, because no I want

that I know that's my intelligence my concentration and my time. Curro,

thanks. Thank you. Mary, I think I'm doing that the first give a good

al-a- manned Al-ah yes because he has done a discovery

important. Important. What you think when you when you listen? Well,

well, I think so what is what is what are doing that this is

is it's like castizantly he's saying it's really that's really

the degree of the degree of the degree of our life is the grade of disconnection that exists is that

are taking some some effects very very very very very

very person there there various manifestations in first the

sensation that that you know control the situation that no

has a sense of that no time that's a thing that there's a other thing that's

that's doing it's that you go and that you're not you're going to well in the fund

me is compensating no, he's he's getting where he doesn't

that he's there's in the third thing that's the first thing the first the first

the first it's something and this you know is a sentiment. It's has demonstrated that

you've got more tonto. If we're applying the test of cociente intellectual, that's

very old, but still having a certain validity, it's not a certain kind of a question of

the cociente family. That's a way, in a lot not is not is not perci

the sense the importance of those relationships interpersonal. So, it's a card,

I think that's a lot of a person that must a two

Eta Pets in his life. One a time where not was a true of his life,

and he manifests clersimely and other where when you get a moment he's

the moment he's the when he they're they're a caracly is a

car the quantity of information that you need's and he's he has

passed for a situation difficult when he's he's

he's he's he he's he's me he's me

no a no grace. So, and the after that

after that a time, that's a little, because today

if you know, that's a little a bit of a

start, it's to get in the question, it of

things to be to be more, that starts more, the

second, that's the relations interpersonal, of the moments,

that And it's to be more dweaned this is a sensation super reconfortant and then now now

you know, because obviously having a mobile is important. The mobile can help us much. But,

look at his apprenticeship not have made his own what you has been to think it

to be to be to see to see to frequently to to not

to come to come to call it a way that that of some

that of that's that how do you, when I've heard of Alexander, I think in, you know, you're describing very

what I'm like I'm trying like you know, I think it's a addiction that's a addiction that's a time that's

many of the time that's you know, you've got to say, you know, you've got that's always that necessary

to have to know, the other because at final I think that's a issue, that you

get, for example, to Twitter or to Instagram, to be what that's doing the other

people of what the other retroalimenta, one that doesn't very well, that is that we're doing the things,

passing on the time of the reason of the things that are much more crucial in the life.

Well, I think the explanation that I would give to that is the buskedom

of the distraction. When one actively basically buss the distraction of

more more or more conscious, whatever that that is that

you get interesting. Ah, so of what we we're distraer we're

many times of the desasosiego internal that we're in the fault of rumbo we're

of the power of we're the things that's that's that's that are

and they're agitand the most way of disconnecting with it is

distract me so me is even give me something I'm a little

of a little of the the of the, a little of image for that I

do you me distractraig. And then automatically, first is one thing, then it's another,

and, and the thing is that when one not mirs into,

it's and then then then it's a person that could governar his

life, but that he's being a beletta depending of the the wind that

more sopla. We're a lot of anthropology because I think it fundamental to understand

because we're going to be things and how we've evolved to that's thinking that maybe it's

the first in the first time in the story, maybe we're in the structure that we're

that's information or entertainer about different things that are completely different

different in one of the other in very little time. Of this has

been the night to the night to the morning like who can say in a thing

six years, I think five or six years, this in the brain, this in the

brain of a species that has evolved during three hundred million years, the

the Cerebrough not is the Cerebrough well, you have in mind if

we explore the evolution what is the neuro- paleontology and the neuro-anthropology the evolution

of the world of the history of the human then no

there no great capacities, the capacity to analyze, the capacity to manipulate the environment,

to create technology, the capacity to fix us in form very precise and specific in something.

And this is a capacity that is associated to the hemisphere the brain.

But also we're a capacity to intuir, to understand with profundity, to connect

with the other to connect with the naturalness, to connect with ourselves.

What occurs? How we've abandoneded these capacities, the empathy, the intuition, the compassion, the capacity to

understand the context, the unir the points to find a where it is a way.

And we have been so in what it is a measure, in what the the technical,

in the scientific, there's a moment in the that all that all that we

have have been, in the last few in the last few years, it's every

more, major, so if me, I, I, I, habitouas

a type of food, it's more more that you can,

you quelles a common that's a common that's so it's so

urgent, that we start that capacities of the hemisferial cerebral,

dereech, capacities that are fundamental to resolve the problems that generate the hemisphere the left. If you're using,

the example of Alejandro. Look, Alejandro there's a moment in the way is a different and it's really an addiction,

is really an addiction to technology is more than more than studied or liberation of dopamine for the almesolimbic

etc. That's. That's very very studied. So, Alejandro, there's a moment in that

is being attracted by many things. He's the wrong the mobile. And it's to be a

state of a quietu yeah not has that's any of that's it's

not a and it and that the question the other hemisphere the

the hemisphere not can enter with the room has

to get to in the silence in the in the contemplation

and then the hemisphere of is the that he

does the and he the fact of the So, not the life, not the life of the Vecino, so what

occurs? That when has been that when he has been that point of discovery, that point

revelation, has gained that's that's thought, and you he's that's the

brain, the mind, the brain, the brain, the brain, the brain, it's the brainposa,

oh- is that, because, you know, the sense of that you can't

that's stubbed, you're You're doing videos, if you're tombado, not you're doing an activity physical. But the Cerebro is not traveling more than at the more than at the more than here, that we're working. So, the Cerebro is a time inadequate.

Sure. Because the Cerebrose is an organo of a beauty, a complexity, and a complexity, that no tendriamil to describe it. But the mind is other thing. So the mind can, sometimes manage it. It's like a software that manages

very torsied, very dysfunctional, very daninos. So, in the fond of that rule mental, all that's a idea,

all that's a level of distraction is a thing that's a form of a network that's a network that

is a red neural for defect has demonstrated that has done the different the

first, perjudica the health because it effectively to function of the

system immune. But that that health. Reduce your capacity to to make good decisions. Because you're with your

head doing about you. Not you know what you're doing. It's really to what you're doing to do

your relations when you're with an friend, when you're when you're with your when you're with a

question, but the rest of you've done you've done. What? You're that the

person doesn't know, it's a thing that is a a level of conscience, to give you a

response to a that's the the question of the second part of his card, I'm a know I'm

know this and that's this of this of having things that not me interest and that they

they're that they're that's the time. And, that's the thing you're you're not

you're not to do you do you're to do you to do a time, to do things that's

that's the time. Alexand us that that's that's that's

the mobile or that he's the first day of his vacations. How we're not

not going to not? I'm to talk about metaphorical. I'm I'm a example.

There are programs in those you simply you have you have a

compromise to not use the mobile for no less until the final

of the day for if there some if there's something if

if there if there's Enferme in the family, you can consult the WhatsApp.

But you have a problem firm to do this. There are other programs where you

you have you're you're you're guard. With what you have you

have an experience first, a experience I remember a a

time of in the silence in the mountains in Colorado. Silence. Yes.

In the the mountains rocosas in Colorado in Denver and I I had to

see a sometimes in a lot of some way of but I don't use the telephone for nothing

for internet and for nothing and it's fantastic what you you're to get to

you know in the silence because then you start to connect with that

you're that is an enclated to the door to the door to

the incociente and you the use of the mobile has converted in many cases in an addiction.

And as many the addictions, then we have to docently to do you to be the role of being the same

and not to maintain usclavos. Well, dearly, and in this case, that you're seeing,

a message simply as a proposal, as I'm not so I'm who to give to people,

to give to maintain aleager the mobile when you eating and you're it's getting

distraction decide in what moments you're going to consultantly not you consultantly because it's

demonstrated that when you consultas one and you're you're doing you're doing you're

in the in the United in Los Angeles you you're something in a little more

to have a attention adequate. Imagine you, the quantity of distractions we're doing,

we're sumando, we're sumando, we're sumando, we're sumando, we're doing we're doing to have to this.