Don't Join or Exclude Yourself from the System; Use It to Your Advantage

I mentioned how my brain works, and that truly applies to everything in my life. It reaches a point, where I can never identify with left or right ideas.

(I think everything just went to hell right now)

The fact that a simple statement like this often labels someone as, for instance, a fascist, is one of the reasons we've reached this state of social toxicity today. The ideological war is so decadent, that the first thing we need to do to see and initiate changes in our lives, is to stop falling into the trap of polarization that affects our times.

The Grand Theater of Modern Politics

When side A and B argue, both are right on many points, although, like everything in the clickbait era, both choose half-truths to protect their biased view of reality. Do they generate solutions? There are no solutions. Are there consensuses? There are no consensuses.

It doesn't serve us then.

The phenomenon is deeper than it seems. Neuroscientists have discovered that when we defend a political position, the same brain areas are literally activated as when we're physically attacked. It's as if our brain interprets ideological disagreement as an existential threat.

Peter Wason demonstrated with his famous logic puzzle that even the smartest people systematically fail when their beliefs are at stake. It's not that we're dumb; it's that we're programmed to protect our identity before seeking the truth.

I clarify this because many of us have a baby hope that a specific government, in a miraculous way, with its reforms and taxes or non-taxes, will make things change so that we're a bit better, and the real truth is that this will never happen, no matter which side you are on. The aggravating factor is that our life is too short to keep waiting for someone to do something.

The Crisis Is Global

Let's pause to look at the world slowly, and the current state of each country, observe it. Analyze, request some data, and understand it, to effortlessly state and admit that: the disaster is on a global scale. Another time, we can summarize country by country, but everywhere people complain that the square meter is outrageously expensive, the food is as well, mental health is plummeting, young people are increasingly superficial, and the list goes on.

The fascinating thing is that this crisis has deep biological roots. Studies at the Neumayer III polar station revealed that prolonged social isolation literally shrinks parts of the brain. The prefrontal cortex loses volume, levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor plummet. It's not just that we feel bad; our brains are being physically reconfigured.

And here's something key: loneliness increases the risk of mortality by 83%. It's deadlier than smoking. While we argue about taxes, our brains are melting from a lack of real connection.

So how did we get here? We arrived here because neither Europe nor the United States (the two axes that most influence Latin America) have the answers to the issues we already have today. Even worse, as time goes on, challenges appear that "nobody" could foresee, like the collapse in job offerings that's looming, to armed conflicts they have no idea how to control, causing tension to only rise and rise.

Your Life Is Your Responsibility (and That's Beautiful)

While you could choose a passive role in your life, hoping to win the lottery, meet someone who pulls you out of the emotional void, or that "something simply happens," everything that happens from now on with us, is solely our responsibility.

This is where science gets interesting. Positive psychologists discovered something counterintuitive: happiness doesn’t follow success; it’s the other way around. Happier people receive better evaluations, more social support, and paradoxically, more opportunities. It's a virtuous loop that starts with your mental state, not your bank account.

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson found that mindfulness literally rewires your brain. It’s not cheap philosophy; they're measurable structural changes in specific neural circuits. Your brain is more plastic than you think.

In a world in full crisis, the way to save yourself is not by destroying the system, nor is it infiltrating to break it from within. The world is already messed up enough and on the path to collapse, for you or me, with very short lives, to waste them fighting against what: the whole world?

Understanding the Hack

The world stops disappointing us, when we have no hopes placed in it. It sounds depressing, but it’s liberating. It’s like when you finally accept that Santiago’s metro will never be on time: you stop suffering and simply plan with a margin.

Neuroscientists studying optimism discovered something fascinating: when people find positive meaning in suffering, their brains show more diverse wave patterns. It's as if optimism is a way to hack your own neurobiology.

You don’t need to go against the system, nor do you need to join it. All you require is to know how it works in its various dimensions, so much so that you will even empathize with it, because you won’t just see, but feel its problems (wounds). Seeing through façades allows you to turn the tables, hack your relationship with the system, because by respecting all its rules, you are capable of using them to your advantage.

The thing is, our brains are designed for cooperation, not conflict. Studies with bats show that when they communicate, their neurons literally synchronize. They tune in to the same frequency, like a cosmic radio of flying mammals.

The Tools of the New Player

My mission then is to provide you with all the tools and knowledge to not only see the problems but also imagine, create, and execute radical solutions, so you have the freedom to decide what occupies your time and mind, and not be another NPC, wandering through life as just another product of third-party decisions.

To achieve this, we need to:

Recapture your physical energy (Bio Hacking) - Andrew Huberman and his team have mapped specific protocols based on neuroscience that can transform your performance.

Discover what you truly are and love (Self Growth Hacking) - It turns out even bearded dragons can learn through social imitation. If a reptile can evolve socially, imagine what you can do with a full prefrontal cortex.

Transform the world from that passion (Growth Hacking) - The most successful social economy projects demonstrate that when you put people before money, paradoxically, money flows. It's like the universe rewards authenticity.

Make everything that steals your time do itself (Life Hacking), because your time is literally the only thing you have. Everything else is on loan.

Complementarily, I will share with you a glossary of all the technical concepts you must know today, helping you broaden your perspective of the present (contexts), sharing some digital tools that dramatically accelerate creative work and collaboration.

The Matrix Has Bugs, and That's Great

To be responsible, it's important to mention everything that strays completely from this hacking guide, since the concept of the Matrix is overly exploited by people who seemingly understood nothing about that movie.

It’s not about being an incomprehensible rebel, but rather understanding the game well enough to play it by your own rules, within the rules.

In the hacking dictionary, hacking is understanding exactly how something works to generate a trigger, a change, or press the right button at the exact moment necessary to get what you need. Hacking is about making the right decisions. Unlike clickbait hacking that promises ChatGPT prompts to make you a million dollars (LOL), this is about understanding what's in front of you and generating the appropriate interventions so you don’t have to "steal a prompt from me," but rather create your own, capable of consistently giving you 50 bucks a day.

(Something achievable, realistic, consistent, and replicable)

"In conclusion" –as ChatGPT always says– this atlas is about EVERYTHING, because we will talk about everything, about how everything connects from the macro to the micro, so you can see through the world and people. I do it because it's imperative that you have the most fun possible in your short and promising life, which is the only reason we are here.

At the end of the day, the system is just a set of rules created by humans, just as lost as we are. And if they could create these rules, we can find creative ways to navigate them.