La stupidità strategica

One isn’t born stupid, one becomes it!

How to build resounding failure or avoid doing it.

We can all make stupid mistakes and adopt behaviours, which, with the benefit of hindsight, seem anything but wise. Sometimes, what makes us stupid is actually excess reason, like, for instance, when we persist in defending our ideas even in the face of their failure, confusing determination with stubbornness and tenacity with obtuseness. And so, blinded by ephemeral successes, instead of correcting these attitudes, we repeat them ad infinitum, and this results in turning episodic expressions of stupidity into a permanent personality trait. Stupidity doesn’t exist in nature, it’s not a biological defect; it’s an entirely human product, an insidious virus to which no one is immune. Where does this attitude originate? And what are its consequences in everyday life? With his over-twenty-year experience as an expert psychologist and psychotherapist, Giorgio Nardone leads us into the discovery of the mechanisms of stupidity and suggests effective antidotes to protect us from its traps and live alongside it. Because nothing is totally wrong and everything can turn out to be useful: even stupidity.