METAVERSE: AND THE MENTAL HEALTH?

During the talk about METAVERSE by IDEA GTO, relevant information about the near future was given, a virtual world where a person will have the opportunity to design a paralel life with all that person wishes the most, all brands, colors, tastes, scents and different emotions to live an unique experience. A world that a person´s mind will enjoy so much.

The pandemic years push technology with unexpected speed. Megatrends in this field considered for the next 10 years arrived earlier. The future is here already!

In the metaverse there will be all you can imagine, since your own avatar designed as you wish without restrictions and you might be tempted to design yourself in an avatar sligtly different, with an aathletic body, with a longer or shorter hair, with wither or darker skin, with different heigh and so on, with a lot of possibilities. Also, you will have access to buy new brands that you might not have in real life, that shoes, clothes, food  that you always wanted, that facilities you always wanted to work in; you will have the chance to have virtual meeting sessions within your partners or classmates under metaverse conditions, such as Tecnologico de Monterrey just had a few days ago.

However, we will have our own real life with feet on the ground all day long. A different life indeed (more or less) from that in metaverse and it is in here where you will have to use all your emotional intelligence skills  to go on with your feet on the ground, because of reality in what you have on hands.

Emotional Inteligence have a particular relevant skill such as CRITICAL THINKING, a toolkit that social media has made to be asleep. Therefore, Why is so important? Critical Thinking is the capacity to analyze, conceptualize, evaluate, apply and synthesizy  any event or issue, our ability to go beyond what we see and discern reality from what we see, hear and read to find out the valid arguments to support it.

Critical Thinking will be the most powerful toolkit to discern under metaverse vs our feet on the ground, so that our mental health might not be affected from the diffetent kind of lifestyle under metaverse and this wonderful real world.