Out on 16 July 2026

How Not To Be Stupid

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Publication date16 July 2026
176 pages
ISBN9781035094981
Imprint: Pan

Reviews

A clear, provocative guide to thinking more freely, How Not to Be Stupid explores the myriad ways we can get stuck without realizing it – through fear, habits, language and conformity – and offers instead a path to curiosity, clarity and liberation
Read this deeply unconventional book and you will start to get unstuck
Sibaldi shows that stupidity is not the opposite of intelligence – it's the opposite of freedom. His twelve 'functions' map the hidden ways we get stuck: in borrowed words, borrowed authority, borrowed desires. This book is a quiet provocation disguised as a self-help guide, and it deserves a wide readership