BATB score: 1/10 🤬 omg shut up Best to: mister invincible, mister go fight win, just go away Best for: this work hard play harder mentality is so yesterday BATB linger thought: this book would be exponentially better if Arnold Schwarzenegger talk truthfully about his affair, his failures as Governor of California, his whatever! just with more sincerity and humility; Arnold and David Goggins can be friends Best as: the book’s narration sounds like that annoying uncle at famil

BATB score: 4/10 🌸 Best for: wah Drew Barrymore really wrote this memoir for herself and nobody else as the stories only matters to her and nobody else Best to: what it means to be famous for being famous is you can write up a book; promote it with your name and disregard the content Best as: Drew Barrymore’s milking that passive income Best quote: “I wanted to be a good girl, and I wanted goodness to be the theme of my life and my work.”

BATB score: 8/10 👏 Best as: you don’t just get an offer to be CEO, you set “CEO” as your life’s goal and work backwards 24 years of career planning and progression to get there Best for: CEO career climbers only - “Many CEOs secretly agree that the best job in the world is actually the one right below the CEO.” Best to: a true playbook on how to get to be CEO, how to be CEO, and how to leave as CEO - lead with the question of “why?” to drive focus, and “why not?” to encourag

BATB score: 4/10 🥂 Best to: whenever you are in doubt on whether you are an alcoholic Best for: ahh, I am an alcoholic Best as: or am I just an alcohol enthusiast? Best quotes: “to be a better version of myself and at worst to get some quiet in my brain” “I need friends who understand my limitations and have lowered their expectations.”

BATB score: 7/10 🤓 Best as: a full-blown white paper research on the differences of the different generations under the premise that “the era when you were born has a larger effect on your personality and attitudes than the family who raised you does” Best for: the nerdiest of nerd; beautiful line graphs on almost every other page; quantitative surveys and qualitative deep dives 📈 BATB lingering thought: the only down part is that it is US-based; I wonder whether the result

BATB score: 7/10 🩵 Best as: this book is borderline a scam as it is merely a collection of selected chapters from Dale Carnegie’s two other best sellers “How to Win Friends and Influence People” and “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living” Best to: however, it is a good refresher if you have read the other two best sellers a while back OR a good introduction to Dale Carnegie if you haven’t read anything Dale Carnegie Best for: an extremely instagramable and quotable book BATB

BATB score: 6.5/10 🙄 *reader discretion advised* BATB is starting to get really bored, annoyed, and tired with productivity books. In the spirit of mental health, can you please shut up? BATB lingering thought: well, if you read all of Adam Grant’s books then you got to read his new book right? ahe. Best to: this book has forty key takeaways; FORTY! I know he knows that FORTY is a little bit too much Best as: reference book for a lot of instagram-mable graphs and smarty Adam

BATB score: 4/10 🤬 content wise the author gave zero f*cks Best for: the book aesthetics - the title, the cover design, the hardcover feels, the illustrations, the color print, the page texture, the publishing house smell; basically everything except the content itself Best as: not a bad gift for someone who obviously will not read the book beyond it’s title and maybe pretend to flip through the pages twice BATB lingering thought: this book is borderline annoying; the jokes

BATB score: 8/10 🖤 Best to: it was very close to being very good book yet the 23 concepts were just all over the place; unlike Morgan Housel’s previous BATB 10/10 “Psychology of Money” book that was just about money #duh Best as: back in 1950s, we all were poorer but happier than today and that’s because there was no wealth gap, no one is better off, nothing to envy Best for: I believe many other book review pages would give this book a 10/10 so to avoid FOMO, read it BATB l

BATB score: 9/10 👌🏻 10/10 book but it’s like 6 books in 1 book (1 chapter = 1 book in itself), intense shit - a typical Joe can not digest this Best to: kudos to Eric Barker for concluding shitloads of research paper synopsis, numerous behavioral experiments and results, and quotes from so many influential authors, while adding one’s valuable deciphers; literally knitting it all-in into one book 💯 Best for: there so much material in this book for you to chew, digest, and p

BATB score: 5/10 💡 *reader discretion advised* not a book for the average joe; requires IVY league educational background a complete post-mortem extremely detailed report of what happened at General Electric from Jack Welch’s most successful company stardom to Jeff Immelt’s company downfall bye bye die Best as: no one really needs to know that much detailed post-mortem unless you are doing a General Electric business case review Best to: unpopular opinion, I do feel sorry fo

BATB score: 6/10 🧡 *reader discretion advised* max advanced level reading skill required; this book about trauma can actual cause trauma in readers Best to: an in-depth analysis on how our toxic society makes us claim “this feels good. I want more” instead of the more valuable meaning of life “this feels good. I am contented. I am complete.” Best as: “The perceived need to be what the world demands becomes entangled with our sense of who we are and how we seek love.” - 500 p

BATB score: 8.5/10 💙 *reader discretion advised* this book on anxiety and panic attacks can trigger anxiety and panic attacks 🫨 Best to: as a national correspondent queued to be on LIVE television in five, four, [mouth reads] three, two, one; are your hands sweaty? is your heart rate rising? is your mouth quivering? why is the perfection stigma so psychologically decapitating? Best for: anyone who can relate to this quote > “Why was it that I seemed to be more afraid of the

BATB score: 6/10 🫠 *reader discretion advised* clickbait book title 💯 Seth Godin has ADHD, this book is an ADHD book - three paragraphs, tip of the iceberg touch of a story, and then off to the next story, repeat that roughly 150 times Best as: just because you wrote a book telling numerous stories does not make you yourself a good storyteller Best to: allow me to summary the whole book, “Marketing is storytelling, make the story remarkable, consistent, and authentic. Tell

BATB score: 6/10 🌸 Best as: romantic comedy pastime read; everything that is of some meaningful essence, BATB has typed them out under ‘Best Quotes’ below 🫠 Best to: could it be that we are making ‘life’ overly complicated than what ‘life’ intends to be? BATB lingering thought: not a forty-something f##k up but a thirty-something f##k up; it just gets younger and younger Best for: anyone who needs to write daily ‘three things you are grateful for’ just to keep them content

BATB score: 5/10 ❤️‍🩹 this book on self-talk can be summarized in a 5-minutes elevator pitch Best to: your number one cheerleader is yourself #selftalk BATB lingering thought: a very similar concept to “The Secret” Rhonda Byrne about manifestation and self-hypnosis Best for: say this every morning “I really am very special. I like who I am and I feel good about myself. I smile a lot. I am happy on the inside and I’m happy on the outside. I am positive. I am confident. I radi

BATB score: 7/10 🫠 Best to: if you are going to read one book in this lifetime, this is the book for you; if you have read 100+ books in your lifetime, this book just summarizes all the good bits of every good book you’ve read - which you remember them all anyways, so more like re-worded reminder Best for: who the f is Steven Bartlett, even after googling him, I am still not sure who he is; but okay, he is skillful in summarizing other people’s books into his own book - I gu

BATB score: 9/10 🙏 *reader discretion advised* advanced reading skills required; quite scientific and nerdy Best to: macronutrients of happiness > enjoyment, satisfaction, and purpose; optimize what is important > family, friendship, work, and faith; when in doubt, you are just one of 8 billion human beings so be grateful, be in the present, and know that you will die soon Best for: whenever you’re unhappy, go walk bare foot in nature and find the experience of ‘awe’ - “the

BATB score: 6/10 🫥 love the fun fact scientific research references; hate the personal vlogs Best to: one year happiness project with monthly OKRs to appreciate the mundane and be a kinder person Best for: happy people are scientifically proven to be more physically attractive 😎 Best as: a very slow book for endless mellow rainy days Best quotes: “To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.” “We hugged for at

BATB score: 2/10 💥 *reader discretion advised* mean girls mode activated - this book is a waste of time 🙄 Best to: okie I acknowledge the good intentions, kudos to Chris Anderson for starting TEDTalk / TEDx and his generosity for knowledge worth sharing; the book is trying to share efforts, tips, techniques and inspire how one can be more generous yet this 200+ pages book would have better been a 18-minutes TEDTalk Best as: that’s why all philanthropic non-profit organizati