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Ignacio Álvarez de Mon – Afternoons with my mother (excerpt)

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Ignacio Álvarez de Mon – Leadership Professor. IE Business School. Reading: Afternoons with my mother (Tardes con mi madre) Excerpt by Ignacio Álvarez de Mon (2026). Acceptance Acceptance brings inner peace; resignation brings conflict. Before accepting, we know we’ve done everything in our power; in resignation, we admit we didn’t give it all. Acceptance […]

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Lucía Egea – Don Quixote of La Mancha (excerpt)

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Lucia Egea – Vice Dean Market & Product Development. IE Business School. Reading: Don Quixote of La Mancha (Don Quijote de la Mancha) Excerpt by Miguel de Cervantes (1615). Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has given to humankind; neither the treasures hidden in the earth nor those concealed […]

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Blanca del Cuvillo – The Little Prince (excerpt)

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Blanca del Cuvillo – Senior Global Recruitment Manager. IE University. Reading: The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) Excerpt by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943). “Goodbye,” he said. “Goodbye,” said the fox. “Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible […]

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Julián Trigo – Stories from Spain’s Counter-History (Excerpt)

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Julián Trigo – Director Corporate Business Development | Admissions Exponential Learning. IE Executive Education. Reading: Stories from Spain’s Counter-History (Historias de la contrahistoria de España) Excerpt by Marcelino Lominchar (2026). History has a weakness for irony. One of those ironies wore a mustache, was named Félix de Azara, and was born in 1742 in […]

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Shi Yuxin – Ask The Sky (Excerpt)

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Shi Yuxin – Master Program of International Development, – IE School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs. Reading: Ask the Sky-The (Songs of Chu 天问 -楚辞 (楚辞) Excerpt by Qu Yuan (343 a. C. – 278 a. C). Deep in the past, at the very beginning of everything, who was there to tell us what […]

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Raquel Cabero – Don’t give up (Excerpt)

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Raquel Cabero – Academic Director – IE School of Science and Technology. IE University. Reading: Don’t Give Up (No te rindas) (Excerpt) by Mario Benedetti (1920-2009). Don’t give up, you still have time To reach up and start anew, Accept your shadows, Bury your fears, Free your burdens, Fly again. Don’t give up, that’s […]

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Henry Bradford – Momo (Excerpt)

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Henry Bradford – Vice Dean BBA. IE University. Reading: Momo (Excerpt) by Michael Ende (1973). Beppo explained to Momo that life can become a labyrinth if one allows oneself to be swept away by the hurried pace of others. “Every person has their own rhythm,” he said while carefully sweeping a line of dust. […]

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Flor Gragera de León – Dispatches (Excerpt)

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Flor Gragera de León – Executive Director – Language Center. IE University. Reading: Dispatches (Excerpt) by Michael Herr (1977). I was there to watch […] I went to cover the war and the war covered me […] Iwent there behind the crude but serious belief that you had to be able to look at […]

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Ivana Belamaric – Ballad from the Suburbs

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Ivana Belamaric – Executive Director Gomba & Emba Programs. IE Business School. Reading: Ballad from the Suburbs (Balada iz predgrađa) by Dobriša Cesarić (1902 – 1980). And a kerosene lamp burns on the corner A reddish-yellow light On the thick mud by the old fence And two, three bricks on the road. And always […]

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Natalia Soto Kure – One hundred years of solitude (Excerpt)

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Natalia Soto Kure – Marketing Specialist. IE University. Reading: One hundred years of solitude (Cien Años de Soledad) (Excerpt) by Gabriel García Márquez (1967). Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo […]

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