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    Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living
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    Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living

    Written by Jason Gay

    Narrated by Jason Gay

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    About this audiobook

    The Wall Street Journal's popular columnist Jason Gay delivers a hilarious and heartfelt guide to modern living.

    The book you hold in your hand is a rule book. There have been rule books before-stacks upon stacks of them-but this book is unlike any other rule book you have ever read. It will not make you rich in twenty-four hours, or even seventy-two hours. It will not cause you to lose eighty pounds in a week. This book has no abdominal exercises. I have been doing abdominal exercises for most of my adult life, and my abdomen looks like it's always looked. It looks like flan. Syrupy flan. So we can just limit those expectations. This book does not offer a crash diet or a plan for maximizing your best self. I don't know a thing about your best self. It may be embarrassing. Your best self might be sprinkling peanut M&M's onto rest-stop pizza as we speak. I cannot promise that this book is a road map to success. And we should probably set aside the goal of total happiness. There's no such thing.

    I would, however, like for it to make you laugh. Maybe think. I believe it is possible to find, at any age, a new appreciation for what you have-and what you don't have-as well as for the people closest to you. There's a way to experience life that does not involve a phone, a tablet, a television screen. There's also a way to experience life that does not involve eating seafood at the airport, because you should really never eat seafood at the airport.

    Like the title says, I want us all to achieve little victories. I believe that happiness is derived less from a significant single accomplishment than it is from a series of successful daily maneuvers. Maybe it's the way you feel when you walk out the door after drinking six cups of coffee, or surviving a family vacation, or playing the rowdy family Thanksgiving touch football game, or just learning to embrace that music at the gym. Accomplishments do not have to be large to be meaningful. I think little victories are the most important ones in life.
    - From the Introduction

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 3, 2015
    ISBN9780553550825
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      Read from July 09 to 26, 2015Rules?! I don't need no stinkin' rules...ok...maybe I do need more funny, insightful, sometimes ridiculous (but strangely still very smart) rules from Jason Gay. I tend to not pay attention to by-lines on articles and I rarely read anything sports related, so I wasn't sure about reading something from a sports columnist I'd never heard of. But this book is fantastic. Several times while reading, I would text/call/talk to Jesse about how HE needed to read this book. There were several passages I highlighted -- like about being "cool" (do you KNOW how many "cool" parents I follow on Instagram. It's ridiculous because they're parents. They REALLY AREN'T COOL!). I have SO much embarrassing music on my phone and I'm no longer going to be ashamed of how many times I listen to "Bye Bye Bye" thanks to this book. He also discusses comments on the Internet and how he handles them. <3 Brilliant. So many good nuggets of knowledge and amazing advice from a wonderful writer. Definitely a book to buy the fathers in your life -- the father of your children, the father of your father, the father that is your own, the potential father, any type of father. (I mean, sure, mothers, too, but especially all the dads.)