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Maite Urraca Caviedes – Sonnet 1

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Maite Urraca Caviedes – Executive Director Finance & Operations Department. IE University. Reading: Sonnet 1. (Soneto 1.) by Garcilaso De la Vega (1491/1503 – 1536). When I stop to consider my state, and see the steps along which I have been brought, I find considering the road where I got lost, I could well […]

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Pedro Gómez Rueda – Sonnet 16. For the Tomb of Don Hernando de Guzmán

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Pedro Gómez Rueda – Administration & Accounting Department. IE University. Reading: Sonnet 16. For the Tomb of Don Hernando de Guzmán (Soneto 16. Para la sepultura de Don Hernando de Guzmán) by Garcilaso De la Vega (1491/1503 – 1536). Neither the hateful French arms arrayed against my wrathful breast, nor from well-guarded walls, with […]

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Estelle Eberlein – Joyful and Sorrowful

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Estelle Eberlein – International Relations Student . IE Business School. Reading: Joyful and Sorrowful (Freudvoll und leidvoll) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832). Joyful And sorrowful, Head full of memories, Regretting And fretting, Pain seems to freeze; To heaven rejoicing, Cast down to foul death, Only lovers are voicing Happiness with each […]

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Cristina Pérez Muñoz – The Black Heralds

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Cristina Pérez Muñoz – Senior Associate Director – Career Discovery Advisor (IMBA). IE University. Reading: The Black Heralds (Los heraldos negros) by César Vallejo (1892-1938). Some blows in life, they’re so heavy . . . I don’t know. Blows as if dealt by God’s own wrath, as if, ahead, the rip of every single […]

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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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