How Not to Be a Perfect Idiot (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798349639623)

Ever wonder how smart people manage to ruin their own lives? How to Be a Perfect Idiot is a brutally honest - and darkly funny - exploration of the subtle acts of self-deception that keep us miserable, confused, and endlessly repeating ourselves. Drawing from decades of psychoanalytic experience, Jaime Grunfeld exposes the hidden logic behind our most irrational habits - from the ways we sabotage love and success to the excuses we invent to stay exactly where we are.

With humor, clarity, and compassion, he reveals how folly, denial, and self-sabotage aren't flaws to be erased but windows into our shared humanity. This isn't a self-help manual. It's a mirror - one that reflects the small daily idiocies that shape our lives, and the strange comfort we find in repeating them. For anyone who's ever asked, "Why do I keep doing this?" - this book offers no quick fixes, only the kind of understanding from which change becomes possible.