The Wall Street Journal’s popular columnist Jason Homosexual delivers a hilarious and heartfelt guide to contemporary living.

“The book you possess in your hand is a rule book. There have been guideline books before-stacks upon stacks of them-but this publication is unlike every other rule book you possess ever read. It will not make you abundant with twenty-four hours, and even seventy-two hours. It will not make you drop eighty pounds in weekly. This book does not have any abdominal exercises. I have been doing abdominal exercises for about Small Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living most of my adult existence, and my stomach looks like it’s usually looked. It looks like flan. Syrupy flan. So we can just limit those anticipations. This book will not provide a fad diet or a plan for maximizing your best self. I don’t know something about your very best self. It may be embarrassing. Your best self may be sprinkling peanut M&M’s onto rest-stop pizza as we speak. I cannot promise that this publication is a road map to achievement. And we ought to probably reserve the purpose of total happiness. There’s no such factor.

I would, nevertheless, like for it to cause you to laugh. Maybe believe. I believe it is possible to find, at any age, a new appreciation for what you have-and everything you don’t have-as well for individuals closest for you. There’s a way to knowledge life that will not involve a phone, a tablet, a tv display screen. There’s also a way to experience life that will not involve consuming seafood on the airport, because you should certainly never eat sea food in the airport.

Like the title says, I’d like all of us to achieve small victories. I believe that joy is derived less from a significant single accomplishment than it is from some successful daily maneuvers. Maybe it’s the way you experience when you walk out the entranceway after taking in six mugs of coffee, or surviving a family group holiday, or playing the rowdy family Thanksgiving touch soccer game, or just learning to embrace that music at the fitness center. Accomplishments do not have to be large to be meaningful. I believe little victories are the most important types in life.”

– Through the Introduction