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In this episode, we are chatting with journalist and political scientist Marcos Lema. He has contributed to many news publications over the years, including El País, and El Confidencial and today we will discuss how it all started and why being a journalist is his vocation. In addition to sharing his experiences as a journalist, Marcos will share with us some of his favourite books and why they made an impact on his life.

We talked about life in A Coruna to the current development in news and publishing. In addition, we talked about some of the books that made an impact. Marcos told about the importance of culture and critical thinking and how these aspects should play a bigger part in the education curriculum. It truly was a great pleasure to chat to Marcos and learn about his journey. 

The interesting thing of the episode
In the UK we have a new chancellor of the exchequer after a bit of turmoil in the British government. So why is it interesting or relevant to creators or professionals? There are two important lessons to learn from all this drama. 

The first lesson is to ease things in when you are making significant changes. Drastic changes, in a short space of time, almost always face resistance and usually negative reactions. As professionals, entrepreneurs working with colleagues or others always need to keep this in mind. A lot of companies try to do digital transformation or other types of programs fail because the change management is done properly

The second lesson is the importance of feedback. Feedback is gold and it gives an independent validation of the idea. A review as it were. Another reason that the UK government got into this situation was that they didn’t engage or utilise the Office of budget responsibility or OBR. If the OBR was engaged, they would have provided a review of the budget and forecasted its effects which would have given more confidence to the market. 

Interview 
Critical thinking, which is the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement should be a key part of Education from early childhood, according to Marcos Lema. The combination of critical thinking and curiosity is essential to be successful in any field Marcos explains. We agree. Listen for more insights. 

Books that made an impact

• Morning Star (Xosé Miranda)
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
• Decalogue Of The Good Citizen (Víctor Lapuente)
• A Cynic wouldn't Suit This Profession: Conversations about Good Journalism (Ryszard Kapuściński)

What’s something cool Marcos is working on?
Marcos and his colleagues are working on an interesting project - Brújula Global. It is a new take on subjects that matters to many of us presented in comprehensively and elegantly. We encourage you to check it out. 

If you would like to get in touch with  Marcos you can do so via:

Twitter - @marcos__lema

Linkedin - marcoslema

Brújula Global. - https://www.brujulaglobal.com/

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