Tag: Idiots

How to Deal with Idiots (and stop being one yourself)


Free Download How to Deal with Idiots: (and stop being one yourself) by Maxime Rovere, David Bellos
English | June 6, 2023 | ISBN: 1788167147 | 105 pages | PDF | 1.47 Mb
Idiocy is all around us, whether it’s the uncle spouting conspiracy theories, the colleagues who repeat your point but louder, or the commuters who still don’t know how to use an escalator. But what is the answer to this perpetual scourge? Here, philosopher Maxime Rovere turns his attention to the murkiest of intellectual corners. With warmth, wit and wisdom, he illuminates a new understanding of idiots, one which examines our relations to others and our own ego, offers tools and strategies to dismantle the most desperate of idiotic situations, and even reveals how to stop being the idiots ourselves (because we’re always someone else’s idiot). Expertly translated by David Bellos, this is an erudite, enjoyable and much-needed solution to a most familiar vexation.

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A Sail of Two Idiots


Free Download Renee Petrillo, "A Sail of Two Idiots: 100+ Lessons and Laughs from a Non-Sailor Who Quit the Rat Race, Took the Helm, and Sailed to a New Life in the Caribbean"
English | 2012 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0071779841 | EPUB | 2,5 mb
"It was the best of dreams, it was the worst of dreams, it was an age of consulting the nautical experts, it was the age of landlubber foolishness, it was the epoch of determination, it was the epoch of despair, it was the season of hurricanes, it was a spring of beachcombing…"

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