“The two are the same.” when we approach the psychologist Lara Ferreiro, there is no doubt left: Pelayo Díaz and Damián Quintero have made the same decision because they are both tremendously similar.
And what decision is that? Look. In one of the latest reward tests, they did not hesitate to take the largest food portions, even at the risk of just anything left to get to their mouths. In short, embrace the most extreme concept of survivalwhich points out that one must be saved first and then save the group. A controversial decision, yes, but that in this edition of reality has two faithful defenders.
“The two are selfish people, they look alone for them,” says the expert, who invites us to understand both To understand their behavior within the contest. “Pelayo is the king of fashion and loves himself, and Damián is an athlete who is very competitive. He is Karateka, is used to individuality, he looks for him. He has been world champion and European champion.” For the psychologist, achieving this success within the reach of very few requires clear sacrifices and focusing only on oneself.
“They are used to drawing strategies”
Before similar behavior, that their contest classmates have criticized severely, showing their outrage and calling them little support, and for which the public has even claimed their expulsion, a doubt arises, Are they heartless villains or is there anything else? And about this we have asked the psychologist who seems to be clear, “the two are great strategists.”
“The two are people who are accustomed to drawing strategies. They prioritize themselves, look only for them,” says Lara. And, individually, crumble. “Pelayo is the cold brain of the edition. He has everything measured since the island begins. He has shown that he is a great strategist, who does not shut up, who knows who to get close, with the theme of food has been put in total survivor mode when you wear like this you only think of you. He has decided that he goes first and then the others. ”
According to the psychologist, in addition to this almost primitive impulse, there is also “a feeling of superiority,” he tells us. “He feels that he owes nothing to anyone, very typical of the people ‘made to herself’. There we also discovered his self -defense instinct. ”
Damián, similar … but different
For its part, Damián Quintero has a similar profile but not the same. For Lara, the athlete is a “competitive perfectionist”, in addition to being tremendously “demanding with himself.” The psychologist does not believe that karateka is as strategist as her partner in ‘survivors’ but that she acts like this because she thinks “If I have earned it, why am I distributing it? Just as Pelayo is I deserve everything, this is I won it. ”
For this link with the world of sport, Quintero does not support accepting “weakness”; He always feels that he must be one hundred percent. “For him, the others are the enemy and run out of eating or sharing would be how to fail himself. In addition, hunger also greatly affects humor, character, mind … then, Damián needs to be physically and mentally strong so as not to come down. For him, eating is very important to keep standing and pay to the fullest. ”
In such extreme conditions, outdoors, at the mercy of all insects of the beach and without food, Survival becomes selfishness by pure instinct. In fact, being witnesses of behaviors thus humanizes characters that, many times, seem ‘endiosados’ by the professions they hold. Pelayo, a fashion ‘pope’, surrounded by luxury brands and exclusive experiences, and Damián, a champion who has reached glory.
Contemplating two winning profiles fighting and racging for an empanada, lowering them to the earth and returns them to the purest essence of man. And that is the great thing about this reality, observe, with the maximum rawness, the human behavior that is sometimes good, and, other times, more questionable. As our own nature. And that, Damián and Pelayo are knowing how to embody perfectly, just looking at themselves and without behaving according to social norms learned.
Primitive behaviors that, as the author of ‘Neither one more cocoon describes: the definitive method to find a partner’ have their explanation in our primal brain, the reptilian brain; with which we are born and only in charge of one thing: stay alive. “This area is activated and the emotions are given the same. Empathy, mirror neurons are disabled … and you only let yourself be carried away by hunger, which is what is happening to Pelayo and Damián.”
However, the psychologist warns: This can take its toll. “Although it seems that criticisms do not care, over time, without eating, emotional wear will come. It has been seen that the group’s survival is essential for these types of situations, they are behaving ignoring as if it did not matter. ”
An instinct that, in the end, cannot be forgotten on another fundamental human part: we are gregarious beings and, in the end, the group’s pressure can be decisive.
