Inspector Pelayo Gayol reveals what is the only thing he does every day at home: “We do it for a reason…”

For Pancho, host of the program, the resilience It is a key concept. It is not only the ability to overcome the most difficult tests, but also to relativize day-to-day problems. “Things have the importance that you want to give them,” he comments while reflecting on how many, both inside and outside the world of competitive examinations, tend to magnify problems which, over time, we realize were insignificant. “How many things have we seen, and especially thanks to our profession, that then over time we say ‘man, I mean, I was worried about this before and it was really a small thing,'” he confesses.

But what is your way of staying grounded in a more realistic perspective? As Inspector Gayol reveals, thanks to a practice that you carry out in your home daily. «Look, I’m not a particularly believing person. But in my house, with my children, every day we bless the tablewe sit down and it is obligatory. For Gayol, this routine It is not a religious actbut a constant reminder of how lucky you are for having food on the table. “We do it because of a concept that I have clearly experienced, of how important it is and how difficult it is in many places to get two hot meals at the end of the day,” he points out, to which he adds: “So we appreciate it, but not in a mystical or religious plane, but by truly giving thanks, that we appreciate what we have under the plate, which many times we don’t even think about, it is a mechanical thing, you eat and that’s it.

“The world keeps turning no matter what”

In their international deploymentsGayol has seen up close the misery and those experiences have deeply marked his vision of life. In places like Afghanistan, the inspector comments, “In the end we are very small in this world and life, the world, keeps turning no matter what and we have to keep in mind that those experiences we live are not that important, or yes they are, depending on what specific point of weight in my life I give it. The loss, for example, of children in conflicts, is a devastating reality, but, as he himself points out, families continue with their lives. «There the families suffer the same eh, it’s not that you say they are some kind of psychopaths and they don’t care. No, they suffer totally for those children who have killed them, murdered them, etc. But life goes on, it carries its speed, not the speed I want,” he says.

This understanding of life, shaped by the hardships observed in their missions, is what allows us to relativize everyday problems in Spain. “When you get home and see that the problem is that the internet is not giving you 2 gigabytes as the company had told you, you are a little like ‘really?’ And you can have a difficult day with the company on duty because they are not giving you the two gigabytes that you have paid for and it pisses you off. For Gayol, this is just one example of the “microproblems” that make our daily existence bitter.

In his message to those who struggle to overcome difficulties, such as oppositions, Gayol confesses that failuresalthough hard,They are part of life and can be an opportunity to grow. «That you suspend the opposition is important, okay. But nothing happens,” he reflects. For him, it is essential don’t get stuck in failure: «Don’t stare at the cliffhanger for more than 10 seconds. Ok, it’s not time this year, let’s continue, let’s continue, what do I do? I start studying again, I already have a background, I’ve already studied, I don’t have to study as much next time or I study twice as much, however I want to face history, that’s in each incidence of life, but everything continues, life continues to spin.

In this sense, Inspector Gayol, with his extensive experience in extreme situations, emphasizes that life will always bring us unexpected blows. «Life is going to hit you, it is a matter of time. If now we are here talking, you and I, sitting, comfortable, with my glass of water, it is a matter of time before a blow from life arrives, it will come,” he warns. But, in the face of these challenges, the key is maintain resiliencein knowing how to adapt and overcome difficulties. “One of those seven inputs that establishes the path to success is precisely resilience, which people, well, I believe, have to be resilient but for everything in life, because you never know how it is going to hit you,” concludes Pancho.