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Alex Roche Del Fraile – Freedom (Excerpt)

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Alex Roche Del Fraile – Associate Director – Center for the Governance of Change. IE University . Reading: Freedom (La libertad) (Excerpt) by Andrés Calamaro from álbum El Cantante (2004). I think we’re all searching for the same thing We don’t really know what it is, or where it is We hear about the […]

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Isobel White Bidder – No title

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Isobel White Bidder – Associate Director, Master Programs, SPEGA. IE University . Reading: No title by Rupi Kaur from book Home Body (2020). Our souls will not be soothed by what we achieve how we look or all the hard work we do even if we managed to make all the money in the […]

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Gisela Martín Bravo – Necessary People

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Gisela Martín Bravo – Senior Associate Director • Talent & Careers Management. IE University . Reading: Necessary people (Gente necesaria) by Hamlet Lima Quintana (1923-2002). There are people who, just by saying a word, ignite hope and make the rose bushes bloom, who, just by smiling with their eyes, invite us to travel to […]

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Miriam Martín Martín-Blas – Island Beneath the Sea (Excerpt)

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Miriam Martín Martín-Blas – Programs & Operations Assistant – Talent & Careers. IE University . Reading: Island Beneath the Sea (La Isla Bajo el Mar) (Excerpt) by Isabel Allende (2009). Honoré seemed very old to me because his bones had frozen stiff, even though at the time he was no older than I am […]

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Julio López – In defence of joy

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Julio López -Deputy Director – Associate Director, IE Language Center. IE University . Reading: In defence of joy (Defensa de la alegría) by Mario Benedetti (1920-2009). Defend joy as a trench defend it from scandal and routine from misery and miserable from temporary absences and from definitive ones. Defend joy as a principle defend […]

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Beatriz García-Bernalt De la Cruz – Ballad of the Sleepwalker (Excerpt)

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Beatriz García-Bernalt De la Cruz -Deputy Director – Talent & Careers Management. IE University . Reading: Ballad of the Sleepwalker (El romance sonámbulo) (Excerpt) by Federico García Lorca (1898-1936). Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the horse on the mountain. With the shade […]

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Marcelino Lominchar – Francisco de Orellana and the Amazon (Excerpt)

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Marcelino Lominchar -Executive Education – Executive Director of Bootcamps. IE Business School . Reading: Francisco de Orellana and the Amazon (Francisco de Orellana y el Amazonas) (Excerpt) by Marcelino Lominchar. The thing was that you were appointed governor, but you had to take care of everything else yourself—financing, ships, men, weapons, etc. Just as […]

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Ángel Ripa – Homeland (Excerpt)

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Ángel Ripa – Cloud service manager. IE University. Reading: Homeland (Patria) (Excerpt) by Fernando Aramburu (1941). He was gone, and he would never be there again. Yet, his presence lingered: his scent on the clothes, his handwriting in the notes he had left around the house, his favorite cup in the kitchen. Death had […]

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José Vela Castillo – The Library of Babel (Excerpt)

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José Vela Castillo – Associate Professor – IE School of Architecture & Design. IE University. Reading: The Library of Babel (La biblioteca de Babel) (Excerpt) by Jorge Luis Borges (1941). The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. In the center of each gallery […]

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Luisa Eusebio Cartagena – Bread

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Luisa Eusebio Cartagena – Program Assistant – IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs. GPA Management and Development. IE University. Reading: Bread (Pan) by Gabriela Mistral (1889 – 1957). Vice of habituation. Wonder of childhood, magical feeling of raw materials and elements: flour, salt, oil, water, fire. Moments of pure vision, pure hearing, pure […]

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