BATB score: 9/10 🖤 12 disciplines of leadership from U.S. Navy Seals - surprisingly very applicable to business leaderships - this is the type of management your team members would strongly appreciate 💯 Best to: when it's life or death, leadership is key; and even though in business, there's is no life or death per se, leadership is still key 🔑 BATB lingering thought: this book is extremely well-written, starting each chapter with anecdotal story tell from war in Iraq, con

BATB score: 9/10 💙❤️💙❤️ Thank you Alain de Botton for writing about the philosophy behind marriages. A very honest and important book about how there can only be a 'good enough' marriage that you have to seriously work for every day; reality is so not 'they lived happily ever after'. Best to: "that love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm" BATB lingering thought: the appropriate wedding vows is rather "that I will talk through my feelings when I feel hurt, that I will want t

BATB score: 2/10 💔 1 point for Love and 1 point for Work Best to: know that Marcus Buckingham is best with public speakings, podcasts, and youtube shorts - as for his book... it's wishy washy and a bit all over the place 🌊 BATB best effort in summarizing this book: (1) we are all uniquely weird #WYRD (2) find what you love to do #redthreads by asking yourself when was the last time you lost track of time or was singled out for praise (3) aim to get to work on what you love

BATB score: 9/10 🐲 Simu Liu, Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings, $19M net worth, has always been and still is a disgrace and an embarrassment to his Asian parents. 100% relatable as Asian parents' expectations, disciples, and upbringings are so unique Asian Best to: you sacrifice everything, work your ass off, be who they expect you to be, excel to the point of breakdown just to make your Asian parents proud of - which they would never be - I feel so emotional with th

BATB score: 7/10 🍷 Amy Schumer is an introvert. Best to: casual, entertaining, relatable read about life - broken parents, siblings, drinking, boyfriends, and blackouts; likeas how we all are trying to understand what happened to us, who are we really, and where are we going exactly? Best for: you have to know who Amy Schumer is, have watched her stand-up on Netflix, or have watched her movie “Trainwreck” to be able to find this autobiography of hers interesting Best as: lig

BATB score: 7.5/10 ⚜️ a very interesting and yet an extremely complicated mission impossible (but was possible). plan - okay so, I'm going in as a prisoner, I'm going to survive, I'm going to collect as much intel as possible, I'll constantly try to relay / seek out info, I'm going to raise a secret army at the camp, then we're going to escape, and we're going to tell world, then we're going to attack from the outside and the inside of concentration camp, and save everybody e

BATB score: 9/10 🌈 psychologist Dr Julie Smith believes that everybody need to manage their mental well-being 💟 yet not everybody can afford a session with a psychologist; this book shares the techniques and supportive tool for you to self-DIY fix your mental health 💯 #thankyou Best to: when feeling overwhelmed, acknowledge that it is okay to feel overwhelmed, take a step back and ask "why is this so important to me?", maybe it is actually not that important and if it is i

BATB score: 7/10 🫠 Greatest book title ever! Best to: from aimlessly wandering in search of those others who were similarly depressed, she decided to be the person other depressed people may be looking for - hoping that someone would see her waving, recognizing themselves in her and approach her, so we all can find comfort in each other’s existence Best for: those who aren’t deadly depressed but aren’t happy either Best as: if you have never been to a psychiatrist and wants

BATB score: 7/10 💵💰💸 Dear Bradley Birkenfeld, what the damn hell? All-star private wealth account manager with an 18% commission bonus, to convicted felon for fraud conspiracy sentenced to 40 months in jail, to the Guinness world record holder for the largest whistleblower payout of 104M USD, to an author of a best seller book “Lucifer’s Banker”, and a complete jerk. What the damn hell? Best to: know that this book is a lot about him Best for: account managers on a sales c

BATB score: 6/10 🤓 BATB reading level: advance max You need both IQ and EQ to read this serious research book. Best to: it’s a heavy research book about all the behavioral studies surrounding emotional intelligence (EI) from loser loners and bullies, marriage counseling, PTSD, to eating disorders #legit Best for: a nerd who didn’t have many friend back in school #thatsme Best as: “the hippocampus is crucial in recognizing a face as that of your cousin. But it is the amygdala

BATB score: 8/10 🩺 I’ve learnt a shit ton about the flaws in the healthcare sector! But this book is not a kind read for everyone. Best as: a doctor’s data driven analysis regarding how messed up the medical industry really is - from doctors not washing their hands, pregnancy labor with the old-school forceps is better than a c-section, keeping the soldiers alive within the first hour of attack, doctors’ self-defined salary - so how much do you want to get paid, to making du

BATB score: 7/10 😨💙🌀 BATB reading level: advanced Suzanne O'Sullivan is an Irish neurologist - her book title, “It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness”, is basically the one-liner summary of this book Best for: you have to be into mystery illnesses, extraordinary people, ripley’s believe it or not, doctor’s tell-all documentary, TLC tabloid shows to read this book; because it’s sick and it’s about a super niche topic but it’s so damn interesting Best to:

BATB score: 4/10 💧🌼 Okay. I am unsure on whether you wanted this book to be a behavioral economics book or an autobiography; either way the switch of sort confuses things. Best to: if you are going to read one Susan Cain book, check out “Quiet” instead Best as: the four humors are melancholic (sad), sanguine (happy), choleric (aggressive), and phlegmatic (calm); feeling alive is to feel all these Best for: people who experience fluctuations of happiness and sorrow has a hig

BATB score: 8/10 ☠️ Best for: loyal fan clubs of Atul Gawande who would like to complete all of Atul Gawande’s 4 written masterpieces 📚 Best as: did you know that sometimes doctors forget to wash their hands before conducting invasive surgery on you? Yep, that’s why the medical system and safety check and balance is loose as hell. Best to: how the solution is simply and literally a checklist to go through before every surgery, flight, investment, etc.; just a mere checklist

BATB score: 10/10 💛 An extremely heartfelt memoir about a mother’s influence on a daughter to live a dream that she never had (yet not at all the daughter’s dream) Best for: daughters with mother issues that metamorphose into forever self-doubt and low self-esteem of never being good enough Best to: quickly check “Jennette McCurdy Through the Years 2005-2014 | NickRewind”, “Sam Puckett’s Fried Chicken Addiction”, and “Sam Puckett’s Butter Sock” on Youtube to witness her chil

BATB score: 8/10 🧡 Best to: at the very least know Viola Davis as Annalise Keating aka her award-winning performances in 'How to Get Away With Murder’ OR as Aibileen Clark aka her award-winning performance in ‘The Help’ - you gotta know her to read this book Best as: reality check for aspiring actors/actresses that beyond talent, it takes good old luck to be the lucky few who made it - a lot about the works of show biz Best for: “show me a hero and I’ll show you a tragedy” B

BATB score: 6/10 😅 a fun easy chillax read Best for: people who knows who Laura Clery is, have watched her funny videos, have watched her pregnancy labor video and/or have read her first book “Idiot” Best as: “Comparative suffering has literally never helped anyone ever. Just because someone has success or money doesn’t mean they don’t struggle.” Best to: extremely funny 😆 read+listen with the audiobook narrated by Laura Clery aka the author herself Best quotes: “I liked th

BATB score: 6/10 😷 extremely heavy deep dive analysis on the pandemic that has happened and any future pandemic to happen 😴 definitely too heavy for the general public’s brains Best for: policy makers, WHO personnels, NGO leaders, ministry of health managers, and Bill Gates’ mega rich friends who are so influential that they can make a difference in this world Best to: Bill Gates to do an 18-minutes TedTalk on the content of this book instead to better appeal to the general

BATB score: 5/10 🍂 BATB Reading Level: Advanceeee Ocean Vuong is a poet and his story-tell rhythm is likeas a poem; you either love that about him or you don’t Best to: this book tries to be too many things - a memoir, history channel, animal planet, national geographic, coming of age; and touching on too many topics - immigration, war refugees, PTSD, illiteracy, racism, poverty, family, homosexuality #omg Best as: a very difficult book to write, to read, and to follow throu

BATB score: 7/10 🔥 Burnout is a company’s problem not an individual’s illness. Providing Headspace app membership and/or Modern Health zoom workshop does not constitute as “a company that has demonstrated care for employees well-being”. Best to: the causes of burnout, the measures against burnout, and the self-care needed for leadership with burnout fighting for other employees to not burnout Best for: HR and C-level leadership who wants their legacy to include “demonstrates