Gus Guerrero

In social science, hope is not simply the belief that one’s circumstances will get better; for that, we use the term optimism. Hope is the belief that an individual can make things better.

An implicit ending makes it difficult to fully give one’s heart to another, and yet, even in its finiteness, time cannot limit or end love.

“All those things that I've always tried to push away — having a vivid imagination or asking weird questions or whatever, I gave them a voice by writing and that's now what I do. So, all those things that I was so ashamed of or that made me feel really weird, are now what I actually like about myself. My writing has taken me places that I really

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The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play . It seems to describe a life where it’s just fun to be reading, learning, writing, and collaborating on... See more

“Books are for reading. As straightforward as that may sound, books are still usually promoted with images of pristine books waiting to be read. Being a writer myself, the sight of my own unread books is somewhat unbearable. I prefer those copies that have been read and read to the point that they are almost falling apart. That have earmarks,

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Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen (2016) put it even more concisely:

“A theory is a statement of causality. It’s a statement of what causes what and why.”

Theories then, are ideas about how things work - about causality and how to create change. And those who dismiss theory dismiss the practical application and power of ideas.

"The stronger [the] identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction."