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Trainer, writer and

with thousands of followers on social networks,

(Madrid, July 4, 1988)

in Spain.

With over a decade of experience training celebrities and the royal family in the Middle East, he fights the bad habits that keep us from moving forward based on a millennial philosophy.

The one that has led some of the greatest leaders in history.

However, when he started his blog, Stoic Diary, Stoicism wasn't talked about as much.

"It is more fashionable than ever because

. Unlike religion, the guide of our grandparents, Stoicism provides young people with tools for life," says the author of titles such as

or

.

Above all, among people who are focused on their personal growth, he points out, "and have realized that the most current gurus recover the discourse of Zeno of Citium" about the

.

However, if it were truly fashionable, he adds jokingly: "We would have

and Pedro Sánchez basing himself on the teachings of Marco Aurelio. Or we would turn on the news and see someone wearing a

T-shirt [referring to the mortality] and that doesn't happen.

Instead, he criticizes, salseo programs entertain people like his grandmother "talking about who sleeps with whom."

"It's their job and it's feten. They fulfill their function of entertaining, but

themselves and go to bed more satisfied. I prefer to talk about discipline, perseverance, dedication and virtuosity."

The promoter of healthy lifestyle has created his own training methodology. Eduardo Segredo

VALUES TO BE BETTER

Today we want to be happier, wiser, stronger, better athletes and in many cases more successful professionals.

The return of the Stoics in a hectic 21st century is confined to the present.

"It must be said once again that

. It was Ellis and Beck who, already in the 1950s, broke with the psychoanalytic theories of Freud and the somewhat more evolved theories of Skinner. They realized that the stimulus -response and positive reinforcement work but there is something bigger in the human being, which not only moves for pleasure and pain", he defends.

Without commandments there is nothing to cling to, he thinks, and that is why we live between stress and anxiety or even taking medication to feel better.

"Psychologists and psychiatrists do not give enough and that is because people do not have the tools to live better. Stoicism is that

or operating system that allows people to

It has a point of indifference to both failure and success and that gives a lot of inner peace".

MORE WILL THAN INTELLIGENCE

Does he consider himself a current guru?

"I am not an example of anything or for anyone. I take my work as a responsibility to myself. I accompany the philosophy with actions because there are already enough people talking a lot without doing anything. Responding in a somewhat Mr. Wonderful way, the world full of the things that you fill it. I like to be consistent and base myself on the

. What I like to see is what I try to contribute. "

It argues that much more can be done with much less by simply getting started rather than sitting back and eating the cake.

"In life,

You can take your body to a higher level without stepping into a gym or without it having to be super-equipped with professional machines."

That is why he works with his own body and has developed the

program (NMP) based on energy efficiency and adaptation to the environment.

To achieve goals, it is enough to start moving steadily, he points out.

"If you add effort and dedication, patience and feeling more than thinking, you already have the job won. How many times do we not start by wanting to make everything perfect? ​​My actions show how a worldly person with a plan and a direction in the day to day achieves goals.

."

Whoever approaches their social profiles superficially, he admits, can take an image of arrogance.

"

How I am interpreted when I do push-ups is out of my control. What I can control is showing that I do push-ups today and six months from now I teach the books I read and the healthy people I associate with to a lot of young people."

The world stopped having referent philosophers and went from wondering things to saying amen, he adds: "In schools they don't teach people to create or question, but to follow patterns. And if they are not the right ones, that's when a problem is generated" .

AN ACCIDENT THAT CHANGED HIS LIFE

Everything that Vivar shares today is due, in large part, to the adversity he faced after suffering a serious accident and being bedridden.

"To give you an idea, I could barely move. I was peeing through a tube below my navel. At that time when

through books and the computer."

He could complain or do what he had to, he exposes.

. So I tried, within my tools, to do my best to take advantage of time if one day I stopped feeling bad."

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He cites Marcus Aurelius to ensure that his adversity was not a misfortune, but a happiness to be endured with courage.

And with this he does not mean that you have to look for her, he clarifies.

"Let's not be masochistic, but let's see it as

."

And can we not learn from the adversity of others?

"This is like being told that fire burns and you know it, but until you burn yourself..."

Derek Sivers, an author he really likes, says that if more information were the solution, everyone would be a millionaire with abs of steel.

"We have never had more information than now, and yet

Everything else is marketing."

We ask for the best advice you have been given and can give away.

"Well, this depends on the day they ask me.

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