Como apoyo a este taller, hemos organizado una pequeña exposición con libros y revistas que nos ayuden a comprender mejor todo este proceso, particularmente los últimos números de las revistas TIME, Newsweek, The Economist, Courier International, Der Spiegel y otras, además de algunos libros sobre el sistema político estadounidense, guías de viaje, una pequeñísima antología de su literatura, y dos libros escritos por los dos grandes candidatos en liza, de los que ofrecemos hoy dos fragmentos, tomados casi al azar:
If the language, the humor, the stories of ordinary people were the stuff of wich families, communities, economies would have to be built, then I couldn’t separate that strength from the hurt and distortions that lingered inside us. And it was the implications of that fact, I realized, that had most disturbed me when I looked into her eyes.
The most important distinction to understand about confidence is that it is not a conceit. When vanity is substituted for genuine confidence, it often has disastrous consequences. Some decision makers are blindly confident in their genius or so cherish their reputation for boldness that their pride always demand the act boldly in circumstances they might not fully comprehend, or despite available information that suggests caution.
Uno de los textos corresponde a John McCain (“Hard Call: the art of making great decisions”) y el otro a Barack Obama (“Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance”). ¿Cuál es cuál?