{"id":481709,"date":"2025-09-06T14:27:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/walddy-lina-gives-a-talk-the-best-stories-are-written-in-silence-at-datathon-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T14:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T18:34:06","slug":"walddy-lina-gives-a-talk-the-best-stories-are-written-in-silence-at-datathon-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/walddy-lina-gives-a-talk-the-best-stories-are-written-in-silence-at-datathon-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Walddy Lina gives a talk \u201cThe best stories are written in silence\u201d at Datathon 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo<\/strong>. \u2013 Journalist and director of CR <\/a>News, Walddy Lina Polanco, gave the conference titled \u201cThe best stories are written in silence\u201d during Datathon 2025, an event held at the Ministry of Economy that brought together hundreds of students and professionals interested in innovation, communication and the power of data.\n\nDuring his presentation, Polanco highlighted how personal stories and perseverance can become engines of collective inspiration. He cited as an example the story of Malala Yousafzai, the young woman who, despite being attacked for defending the right to education, continued her fight until she became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.\n\n\n
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“Malala’s teaching is clear: it’s not about what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us,” she expressed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nHe also highlighted the perseverance of Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, who failed more than a thousand times before achieving his creation.\n\n\n

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\u201cPerhaps we don’t invent light bulbs, but we’ve all felt that after several attempts the doors don’t open. The important thing is to remember that sometimes it only takes one more try for everything to change,\u201d he reflected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Walddy Lina Polanco also shared data that encourages action and reflection, including:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n


\u2022 According to Harvard Business Review, people remember an idea 22 times more when it is told as a story than when it is presented as a cold fact.
\u2022 According to a study by Bronnie Ware, 70% of people regret more what they didn’t try than what they tried and failed.
\u2022 Innovative companies like Apple, Tesla, and SpaceX were born from ideas that were once considered “crazy”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also read: Progreso calls on journalists to participate in Regional Award<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nThe journalist emphasized that fame is not needed to inspire: “The most powerful stories are written in silence. Your story matters. Never underestimate the power of your example, because someone, somewhere, needs to hear exactly what you have already lived,” she concluded.\n\nThe Datathon 2025 solidifies itself as a space for learning and motivation where innovation and life stories intertwine to inspire new generations.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo. \u2013 Journalist and director of CR News, Walddy Lina Polanco, gave the conference titled \u201cThe best stories are written in silence\u201d during Datathon 2025, an event held at the Ministry of Economy that brought together hundreds of students and professionals interested in innovation, communication and the power of data. During his presentation, Polanco […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21jv","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}