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Author
The Opportunity
Author
The Opportunity
I am a problem solver. I am the kind of person that people go to for help or to solve a problem. I was classically trained as an engineer. As a young person, I was always either reverse engineering something to better understand it or creating and building something. I do not like talking about myself and I am a very private person by nature. Therefore, I do not lead a public life, and I am not a public figure and I do not have personal social media accounts. However, I love to share thoughts and ideas personally especially if that helps other humans with a more positive life experience and existence.
I never intended to write in my life. I do think a lot and in the process of coding, engineering, designing, etc. I do write a lot. In order to do those types of writing you have to put down in words things in such a way where you can read them to yourself after some time and be able to clearly understand the nuances of what was written.
Looking back, I was not a big writer as a child. Instead, I drew a lot. I was very much an artist painting oils on canvas as early as 5 years old. My first recollection of actually writing something was at the beginning of college in a creative writing class. The reason I remember this so well was that I was told that I could not have possibly written the very paper that I actually had written. It was the big paper that we had to write in the class. I wrote about a friend that I had just met. To my surprise, the professor stood up in front of the class and read my paper as an example of exemplarity creative writing. At the end of it though, the professor went on to say in front of the class, that he knew there was no possible way that I could have written that paper. Luckily, he was still giving me the A, even though he insisted that he knew that I must have had help. I remember this being the first time that I thought to myself that maybe I should do some writing. At the same time, I was so taken aback by being scolded for something I did not do that it was also a reason to completely recoil from writing.
The next strong recollection of writing was volunteering to produce a weekly radio show that lasted 10 years. This got me thinking in terms of the audience and it was an experience that left a positive impression.
Later, I did a lot of contract writing for my own companies as well as helping others. I eventually learned to use this type of writing to skip over or reduce the time-consuming verbal back and forth which was not binding anyway and focus on the words to educate, clarify and even close deals that were otherwise out of reach.
Then the events of 2019-2020 happened and for the majority of humans it became a time to reflect and re-think what was and was not important in life. For me, it also became a time to understand better how we got there and why humans were behaving the way they were. While I was already thinking about this before the events, they just seemed to emphasize that it was not just me that was thinking this way. Many people were expressing that what we had been living before the events was not satisfactory and that the events only seemed to be a consequence of the elements creating that void of satisfaction.
I knew because I am built this way, that I know how to diagnose and solve problems. But, I also know that having something that seems clear to me and stuck in my head that isn’t something that you can just rattle out in a few sentences without getting a full clear picture, required for me to write. Write it down. That is where writing started for me. Ironically, while I may write more, my first book may be the single most important book, not for me, because this is not about me, even though I am writing about me for this bio; it is truly a book for you and for all of us. I sincerely hope you enjoy and gain from my writings. :)