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“Gracias, señor; pero no pienso que la torcida justicia de los hombres esté nunca de mi parte.”
― Lucila Gamero de Medina

“Contrary to Nietzsche’s famous maxim, perfectionists aren’t strengthened in the trying times. They’re weakened. Left untreated, repeated knockdowns so injure perfectionists’ self-esteem that they begin to feel helpless, and in extreme cases like mine, hopeless. No wonder perfectionism is so enormously damaging. ‘There’s this assumption that perfectionism means we’re more resilient,’ Paul told me. ‘But actually, perfectionism is the opposite of resilience – anti-resilience – if you will. It makes people extremely insecure, self-conscious and vulnerable to even the smallest hassles. If you don’t seek help, it’s easy to see how that vulnerability creates substantial, deep-rooted and enduring distress.”
― Thomas Curran, The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough

“In other words, perfectionists use procrastination as a way of surviving struggle, challenge and failure without the inevitable emotional damage. But eventually, they’re just damaged by the passage of time.”
― Thomas Curran, The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough

“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