The Granada-based psychiatrist Luis Gutiérrez Rojas gave a lecture in Seville entitled ‘Educating with humor in school’ to incorporate humor into the education of young children, which can positively influence how children face the challenges that life presents them.

The importance of humor in life in general, and in school education in particular, has been the key to the presentation with which Rojas has participated in the educational innovation think tank organized by the Association of Entrepreneurs of Southern Spain (Cesur) through its brand for Social Responsibility actions, Circle of Economy and Society (CEYS), in a meeting that has been presented by the executive vice president of Cesur, Fernando Seco.

For an hour and a half, in a lighthearted way, Gutiérrez Rojas explained how incorporating humor into the education of young children can positively influence how they face life’s challenges.

Gutiérrez Rojas presented his ten simple solutions to complex problems at this meeting: among them, he highlighted the importance of self-knowledge and humility, since according to the Granada psychiatrist, “only those who know their own flaws and problems are able to be understanding of others, otherwise they become unbearably intolerant.”

He also raised the need to get used to relativizing and preventing “unimportant things from affecting us deeply because we dramatize them, we overthink them.”

Luis Gutiérrez Rojas has reflected on what a child needs: “frustration, to learn to face society. We are creating a very weak generation because we have not given them the opportunity to be strong; it is necessary to take the drama out of it.”

In his analysis of the current state of society, also called “liquid society,” Gutiérrez Rojas has criticized how social networks encourage the conditioning of our happiness to the perception that others have of us, the overabundance and lack of decision-making that citizens suffer, as well as the promotion of “mega-empathy” or “ultra-communication,” above the value of sacrifice, effort, and forgiveness.

He also criticized the haste and stress that characterize modern man and emphasized “the need to sit down and think.” In his analysis of the modern family, he commented on how “the focus of marriage on children generates dependent and weak children.”