Youtubers Quotes

“We are physical, embodied creatures who evolved to use our hands, facial expressions, and head movements as communication channels, responding in real time to the similar movements of our partners. Gen Z is learning to pick emojis instead.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

“The mass media of film, television, radio and internet have enabled a whole new degree of instant, global stardom for those of dubious talent. As a result, our society is drowning in a flood of celebrities, products of a fame industry of lavish scale.”
― Stephen Cave, Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization

“Dear God, Thank you for another day, my health, and the internet.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sam, listen to me. whatever happens, I want you to know you changed my life. hear me?" - Colby Brock, Paradise Island: A Sam and Colby story.”
― Sam Golbach, Paradise Island: A Sam and Colby Story

“Everyone roots for the underdog to win, but once you start winning, you’re no longer the underdog, and then everyone wants to see you lose.”
― Monique Turner, Island of Influencers

“Hemos perdido el universo mítico de la mente preexperimental, o al menos hemos dejado de propiciar su desarrollo. Esa pérdida ha dejado nuestro creciente poder tecnológico más peligrosamente a la merced de nuestros sistemas de valoración, que todavía son inconscientes.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

“Content creator: A creature that makes others content to make itself content.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Success is not just about what you achieve, but how you achieve it. A positive mindset allows you to enjoy the journey and appreciate the process.”
― Dan Pena, 3 Day QLA Seminar 1995

“Prestige-based social media platforms have hacked one of the most important learning mechanisms for adolescents, diverting their time, attention, and copying behavior away from a variety of role models with whom they could develop a mentoring relationship that would help them succeed in their real-world communities. Instead, beginning in the early 2010s, millions of Gen Z girls collectively aimed their most powerful learning systems at a small number of young women whose main excellence seems to be amassing followers to influence. At the same time, many Gen Z boys aimed their social learning systems at popular male influencers who offered them visions of masculinity that were also quite extreme and potentially inapplicable to their daily lives.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

“Of course, a smartphone opens up worlds of new possible experiences, including video games (which are forms of play) and virtual long-distance friendships. But this happens at the cost of reducing the kinds of experiences humans evolved for and that they must have in abundance to become socially functional adults. It's as if we gave our infants iPads loaded with movies about walking, but the movies were so engrossing that kids never put in the time or effort to practice walking.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

“Gen Z is the first generation to have gone through puberty hunched over smartphones and tablets, having fewer face-to-face conversations and shoulder-to-shoulder adventures with their friends.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

“Cuando digo que hay demasiados libros, quiero decir que ay demasiados para cada individuo. Con el fin de alcanzar la categoría de ciudadano del mundo contemporáneo bien informado y actualizado, un hombre debe leer tantos libros que es casi imposible que pueda haber leído alguno de ellos apropiadamente.”
― Aldous Huxley, Si mi biblioteca ardiera esta noche. Ensayos sobre arte, música, literatura y otras drogas

“Estamos en peligro de sacrificar la calidad de la lectura a la cantidad, en peligro de leer demasiado y demasiado rápido como para estar en posición de juzgar lo que leemos.”
― Aldous Huxley, Si mi biblioteca ardiera esta noche. Ensayos sobre arte, música, literatura y otras drogas

“La cultura no deriva de la lectura de libros, sino de la lectura exhaustiva e intensa de buenos libros.”
― Aldous Huxley, Si mi biblioteca ardiera esta noche. Ensayos sobre arte, música, literatura y otras drogas