Interview to a wise person

 Gabriel Cervates Bello

Chess player and mathematician with a doctorate and two masters. He was born in Puebla, his father is a private accountant and his mother a housewife.

He started playing chess at the age of 15, he went to many chess tournaments and because of win some tournaments he has international ranking.

He studied at BUAP, and did a master in statistics and other in mathematical reasoning at the University of Texas with a grant.

At Tecnologico de Monterrey he studied the doctorate in statistics, he has done and is doing projects at Chile, Canada and USA with the support of the Tecnologico de Monterrey.

He has done many acts of charity towards animal life.
Now a days is 46 years old.

Interview:

Which are your priorities in life?

My priorities are my daughters , my health and learn something new every day, try to give an example and find a way of interpreting life

Do you have a personal mission?

I think my mission is to live life so that when you die can be remembered as a person who lived as I thought it was worth living

Have you ever done an unselfish act of kindness?

I have rescued stray dogs , and sometimes this is dangerous and sometimes very sad

How do you feel when you do that?

I feel I contributed a little to the construction of a better place to leave our children , and I feel that although no one sees me , somehow it makes me be consistent between what I think and what I do

What experiences you have lived, that change your opinion about life?

Perhaps the death of my brother makes me think that you should never live in a hurry

Do you think that if you have not lost your brother you never would have learned that?

I think so

What is wisdom for you?

It is recognizing your own limitations and your ability to change or to encourage others to change. It is not knowledge , it is a way of living

How can you know that a person is wise?

I think that being a simple person is a good way to express wisdom

Name 2 people you consider wise

Mandela and Gandhi

What have  you learned from them?

I have learned that we must learn when to act and when we find situations that cannot be changed, but push hard to change whenever it is possible

Do you think that a president must be wise?

A president must be wise enough to surround himself with honest people