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“An institution can call itself by whatever name it wants, but if it lacks a strong self-correcting mechanism, it is not a scientific institution.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“-¿Y de que le sirve a un hombre ser honrado, tener justicia?
-De nada, si los encargados de administrarla son jueces venales. En estos tiempos el más pícaro es el más dichoso y mejor considerado.”
― Lucila Gamero de Medina, Blanca Olmedo

“Procrastination is often portrayed as a time management problem. But in actual fact, it’s an anxiety management problem.”
― Thomas Curran, The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough

“In 1989, the average young person was high-to-very-high in self-oriented and other-oriented perfectionism (most people slightly agree or agree with statements), and moderate-to-low in socially prescribed perfectionism (most people neither agree nor disagree with statements). Not the healthiest profile in terms of personal expectations, admittedly, but good news regarding socially prescribed perfectionism – young people seemed to report that expectations and pressures on them weren’t excessively demanding.
By 2016, however, that profile had drastically changed. Self-oriented and other-oriented perfectionism had edged even higher, which was bad enough. But it was the trend for socially prescribed perfectionism that really worried us. It surged from low-to-moderate in 1989 to moderate-to-high in 2016. Projecting those increases into the future shows us where we might be headed. By 2050, based on the models we tested, self-oriented perfectionism will move above the very high threshold (most people agree with statements) and socially prescribed perfectionism above the high threshold (most people slightly agree or agree with statements).”
― Thomas Curran, The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough