BATB score: 10/10 You know how we look for logical people and yet everyone of us is illogical and irrational. And you start to wonder whether the world could really be explained? Well, here’s a great and exciting attempt to explain the unexplainable. Best for: if you were to read one book, read this book.

BATB score: 2.69/10 Like serious.. WTF. Urgh. Don't judge a book by its cover. #GoneWrong. This book's cover sure looks attractive but its content sure is demotivating. The first part of the book discusses the different types of seducers. Naming convention was not intuitive and definitions were not MECE. It was BAD. Skip it completely. The second part of the book talks about the 24 SNAKE techniques to seduce your target. Tedious and fishy baloney! Let me list some out for you

BATB score: 1.25/10 Japanese authors are so wordy. Anecdotes are so minute. Sentence structure are so dull. This book consist of 85% water down the drain, 10% potential something but really nothing, 5% real gist. The concept of 'ikigai' or the reason to get up in the morning is definitely there but the process how to get to your 'ikigai'... honestly, we would never know. Best for: the cover and the summarised content on the back P.S. How big should my sample size be (Marie Ko

BATB score: 3.33/10 It may be more relatable if you are in your 2/3 life crisis. Interview accounts of people who look fine on the outside who may not necessarily be doing fine on the inside. The book has high hopes that readers of other people's struggles and worse problems, somehow will make you feel better about your situation. A career-driven C-level person who got this far to get fired. An independent person who was happy being alone but realize that he/she would die alo

BATB score: 5.15/10 Whether high context (I am fine, thank you) or low content speakers; whether confrontational or informal when it comes to negative feedback; whether egalitarian (friend-friend) or hierarchical (godlike boss) leaders; to whether logic based or relationship based trust. There are cultural and communication clashes because we are all born and raised differently. 🔑 key here: be wary but be yourself. Explain that we approach things differently (I am this and y

BATB score: 4.44/10 shocking how one can write so much about a sole two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system aka the 4-quadrant graph; 250+ pages on red, blue, green, and yellow. Unfortunately, no one is a single color but rather a two-tone or tri-colored. #complicated Best to: summarize the book into four A4 pages (one for each color) then read that summary Best as: an instagram picture with that edgy cover and attention grabbing title BATB score: 4.44/10 (exactly 1.11 po

BATB score: 7.07/10 "We are not noble in reason, not infinite in faculty, and rather weak in apprehension." - Dan Ariely #iloveyou A book of random experiments on Ivy league students behaving opposite to what logic blueprint has dictated. Control group, variables, hypothesis, and contradicting conclusions on how we believe we have understood humans but we don't understand hoo-mans at all. #uncrackable Best for: anyone with a modest interest in psychology and behavioral econom

BATB score: 8.5/10 Outliers like Bill Gates are merely ordinary people who got lucky, who got an opportunity to get a head start, and who completed 10,000 hours diligently. Best for: 'Your success today owes up to whether your great grandpapa was a farmer.' If this statement, made you go "huh?" or "wad?", then go read this book. Best as: a reminder that maybe all those cool people (Taylor Swift, Mark Zuckerburg, Isaac Newton) just got lucky. Best to: tell people that you have

BATB Score: 1/10 The book cover is misleading #fakenews You kind of expect Malcolm's behavioral economics and techniques to talk to strangers when it's more of documentary anecdotes on how we don't know the people around us. #strangersassemble Best for: those who spark joy from the CIA fooled, the pedophile getting lucky, the innocent arrested, and just on and on case studies. Best as: a Netflix 45 minutes documentary #TBC #bookstagram Best to: watch the Netflix documentary i

BATB score: 2.34/10 Extremely difficult to finish cover-to-cover. 2 years+ of owning this book, trying to give it a 2nd, 3rd, 4th ready-set-read; enough is enough. Best for: "Walk Away" - Dia Frampton to sing the chorus for this book Best as: you better run away, run away, run away~ Best to: no matter what you say, what you say, what you say~ Note: Go read other behavioural economic books instead -check out the freakonomics series or Dan Ariely combos

BATB score: 3.33 / 10 The book's first 3 chapters were GOLD 🏆 and it all just went downhill from there ⚓️ . The key is "fixed vs growth mindset" yet redundantly explained with this-and-that anecdotes. Best to: Yes, I get it: pick growth > fixed mindset. I got it since your first chapter. Aha. Aha. Best for: Asians, who were spanked by their Asian parents to be perfect: A+, King Classroom, 4.00GPA, Ivy League, scholarship, lawyers/doctors/pilot - everything else is a disgrace

BATB score: 7.89/10 How to Self-Zen for Idiots #Legit #Practical Best for: nervous Nelly who panics for no obvious reason because you will do well anyways but you are still anxious that you'll fail #yesyou #thatme #sweatypalms Best as: 1-2-3 Self-Zen guidebook for worrywart with an acceptable amount of cheesy self-help repetition Best to: "Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." - Dale Carnegie

BATB score: 8.9/10 #legit 🤘 Best as: a book that summarizes other books' highlights from (1) Grit by Angela Duckworth, (2) Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, to (3) Mindset by Carol Dweck Best to: "One BOOK to rule them all, One BOOK to find them, One BOOK to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them" - said BATB Gandalf 🧙‍♂️ Best for: you who said you will read more but haven't read any and claim that you are so behind but you haven't really started on any one book;

BATB score: 9.5/10 Behavioural economics and the science behind 'when' to volunteer to go first, to get married, to quit a job, to get a divorce, etc. Best for: 19, 29, 39, 49 year olds trying to finish a book (and hoping to claim that one has a healthy reading lifestyle) before one turns to yet another decade old Best to: know that “Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” - Miles Davis Best as: a book 'nappucino' - a very simple read between other heavy books Note:

BATB score: 8.5/10 ⭐️ 92 little tricks for you to fake it until you make it! Best as: a how to be a 'Somebody' manual for dummies - great posture, a heads-up look, a confident smile, and a direct gaze. Best to: it's ludicrous to remember and act on all 92 tricks: smile, eye contact, pause, prep topics, notes, killer compliment #madness. Aiming to execute 9.2/92 is already a huge win for me #chachacha 💃🕺 Best for: climbers of the corporate ladder, victims of networking circl

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: 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: 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: 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