BATB score: 4.5/10 🧠👨‍⚕️ Best as: scientifically accurate neurological required reading for the aspiring practitioners: occipital lobe, hemispherectomy, epilepsy, CT scans, to say the least Best to: acknowledge that the brain is the smartest organ hands down; did you know that the brain feels no pain? thus all brain surgery is preferred to be done with the patient fully conscious; except the cracking the skull part Best for: practicing doctors, neurosurgeons, and/or doctor-

BATB score: 7.7/10 Why humans understand the importance of saving, of having emergency money, and of planning for retirement, but yet, humans fail to just that. Best for: anyone who has money-saving issues making irrational money decisions with sunk cost fallacy, annual bonus shopping spree, and/or me-first presence day gratification Best to: if you never ever read any other Dan Ariely book, consider to start Dan Ariely's wonderful series with this relatable book about money

BATB score: 7/10 All profits from the sale of this book go to NHS Charities Together and The Lullaby Trust. 100 ways to say thank you especially through this covid pandemic. Best to: know that NHS in the UK is 100% free even if you need cancer treatment, need brain surgery, or need to be on hospice care for months Best as: a reminder of how free and easily accessible healthcare is a basic human right; and yet I wonder where has all our tax money gone? oh right, a shitload por

BATB score: 8/10 👑 Back in 1532, Machiavelli wrote a 'How to be a Powerful Prince for Dummy Princes 101'. Best for: a very delicate playbook on how to manage/lobby your power game for existing and newly conquered colonies, loyal servants, and abolished toxic minds; topics are extremely relevant to today's office politics (except the 'killing those who hate you' part) Best as: a how-to political manual; from corrupting with soldiers, keeping noblemen in line, soliciting an ad

BATB score: 6/10 😒 Best as: okay but not wow. Scott Galloway being Scott Galloway. Analysing the world pre-during-post coronavirus on business and stock investment. Nothing that you didn't already know. Best for: you to invest in GAFA stocks if you haven't - Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple for long-long-term growth Best to: also check out AirBnB, Zoom, Uber, and Carnival Corp stocks; oh, the book says, basically, anything that booms because of covid shall continues to be

BATB score: 9/10 Best for: Laura Clery's diehard fans; you must have binge watched Laura Clery's Facebook Watch videos prior to considering this book Best as: there has always been an addict lingering in us; a first hand account of an addict, to sobriety, to success - a personal anecdote (that many would not admit) from looking at ceilings to feeling this is it (the end of life) to success the way we define it Best for: all of us to start watching Laura Clery's Facebook video

BATB score: 4.5/10 *blah blah blah talk* Best to: study it than read it - more like a course work textbook than a casual read OR an orientation manual on how to be 'good' Chief Product Manager 101 Best for: if you are an aspiring Product Manager or conquering such career path, this book is both a 101 and a reminder of your core job (in case you've forgotten them); okay to skip this book if you are pursuing any other career ambitions Best as: seriously though, how many of us r

BATB score: 8.8/10 ⭐ From concentration camp to a life sentence in hard-labour camp, how can an innocent 16-year-old girl survive? Shaved (both head and privates), starved, beaten, and raped, how can one still have hope? Best to: read Heather Morris' "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" book first to understand what horrible things already happened and to continue with what other horrible things continued Best for: there's nothing more cruel than the Nazi Concentration Camp 1933-1945

BATB score: 8.8/10 🙏 Salute to all the field studies, data-driven research, and real-life experiments that must have taken 5+ years to conclude into this thick insightful research book! Best to: know that it's a research study on why the poor remains poor from one test hypothesis to another and another across developing countries via numerous rural schemes 👏 #nerdalert Best for: capital shifters composing societal schemes to comprehend the roles of the three Is' - ignorance

BATB score: 6.5/10 ⏰💣 Packed with psychological explanation and plenty of experimental and historical references to how flawed humans are. #400pages Best to: know that humans are weird; we use conditional reasoning to form an opinion, engage in conformity completing a belief and then engross in red herring fallacy to avoid clashing topics #duh Best for: and that's how Trump won the election, how MBTI / fortune tellers seem accurate, how juries make wrongful convictions, and

BATB score: 8.5/10 🙏💫 Legit rationale analysis on why things become a fad, a trend, or a flop. #surfskate #IGReels #bananabread The success of a social epidemic is dependent on three types of people: the connectors (people who know a lot of other people), the mavens (people who can't shut up and wants to share all new known facts), and the salesmen (charismatic KOLs) Best to: know that the above is basically the summary of the book; yet, 💯 legit Best for: Malcolm Gladwell'

BATB score: 10/10! ⭐️🌟⭐️ Amazing. Bravo. Worth every chapter. Clear actionable. Reflective. Concise. #MarshallGoldsmith you genius! Best as: a wake-up call for all senior managers and/or C-level-to-be that “It’s not about you. It’s about what other people think of you” - you are now a public figure and showing such self-improvement desires is positively accepted Best for: 'bad boss attitude' may have gotten you here; but 'good boss leadership' will get you there Best as: dar

BATB score: 6.6/10 🤑 Best to: admit it, financial literary is critical 🔥 Best as: unfortunately our educational institutes are still in denial and societal discussions have a taboo against money talk #bragging #notbragging Best for: reader who has completed Rich Dad Poor Dad first and foremost Book key takeaway: get into good debt as business owners and investors (rather than employees and self-employment) -> engage in primary savings (commodities: oil, gold, and silver), s

BATB score: 6/10 for the darling graphics 🍭 Proof that investing in an MBA to learn the principles is over-rated. Investing in an MBA to find a wife/husband is more acceptable. #valueformoney Best as: it feels like talking to a consultant. You got all the frameworks and the paper concepts down, you look smart, sharp and credible; but we all know that you are full of air #shallow #airhead Best for: go get an MBA when you are single and make sure that you get that certificate

BATB score: 9.5/10 🙌 James Clear, this book of yours is 💯 very clear! Best to: understand why just saying that you want to lose weight or you want to be healthy does not usually stick; this clear and concise book gives you the 1-2-3 step on how to build habits and be a better person 101 for dummies Best for: anyone who gets this: 1% worse every day for one year: 0.99^365 = 00.03 1% better every day for one year: 1.01^365 = 37.78 Best as: “Professionals stick to the schedule

BATB score: 9/10 👨‍⚕️🔪💉🧬🚑 a journey of one's lifetime as a forensic pathologist - from passion, ambitions, on-the-job challenges, being challenged, solving cases, and making a difference 💯 Best to: so what's the time of death? so how did she/he died? is this murder or manslaughter? is it SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) or infanticide? Was it the cops? the mother? the boyfriend? that killed the victim? Best for: anyone who may be bored of one's own career path and wa

BATB score: 10/10 👏 Investment book for dummies 💯 legit! Best to: know there are just 5 basic principles that differentiates the real investors from the novice speculators 1. Do your homework. Bookmark this website www. sec.gov and check out the public 'DEF 14A' to analyse management competencies and compensation schemes and '10-K' annual reports for ROA(sset), ROE(quity), cash flow, and debt. 2. Find economic moats Basically, competitive advantages that is lucrative and ul

BATB score: 5/10 🤦‍♀️ The Confidence Code of all human existence both male and female comes from both nature and nurture. Find yourself a confident role model. Best to: very wordy and wishy washy; the main gist is definitely there but can be summarized into a page Best for: "Women tend to talk 75% less when they were outnumbered by men in the same room; while a man in a room with mostly women talks just as much as he always does." Hey yo! We need to speak up and claim our se

BATB score: 7.8/10 ⭕️ A very simple concept to grasp on constant re-thinking / re-learning on one's strapped ideas. Easy read with comical illustrations. Yet, merely okay but not wow due to long wordy anecdotal explanations blah blah blah. Best to: to have joy in being wrong as such we are one step closer to being right Best for: anyone who can see him/herself saying "I go into so many meetings where there are things I don't know." likeas Melinda Gates appreciating learning n

BATB score: 4.8/10 👹 Too crazy lengthy and too comprehensive for any lighthearted historian 😖 Best to: know that it's an extremely detailed biography of the three Soong sisters - one loved money, one loved power, and one loved her country - from childhood to deathbed; and the many characters and extended family members in between 💃💃💃 Best for: how the hell did Jung Chang write up such a downright account of the Soong sisters? Inclusive of feelings and inner thoughts of s