BATB score: 3/10 🫥 *reader discretion advised* Yung Pueblo’s way of writing is like a bunch of standalone bullet points formatted in paragraphs - statements after statements thrown at you - urgh Best to: it’s like you wrote this book for yourself Best as: the premise of the whole book could have been an e-mail Best for: this book titled “lighter” actually made me feel “heavier” BATB trying to be nice: okay, I do like the short poems (but those could have been an e-card) Best

BATB score: 3/10 🏞️ Best as: 30 individual chapters making 30 unique lessons on life, betting on a 50-50 coin toss chance on whether it would make sense (be a hit) for you Best for: BATB only likes 3 chapters > Loving the One You’re With, A Model Relationship, and How to Love Yourself; the rest meh; 3/30 = 10% hit rate for BATB Best to: okie here’s the plan, go to the bookstore, find the book, shuffle to the good chapters above, read it then and there, takes less than 10 min

BATB score: 8/10 ❤️ *TED Talk is hands down the epitome of world class public speaking - this book is all you need to know* Best to: why speak when this could have been an email you ask? because, “It’s the human overlay that turns information into inspiration.” Best as: an exhaustive lists of all the nooks and crannies to public speaking including how to start, how to finish, to memorize or not to memorize, what to wear, and how to save your presentation file in zip format *y

BATB Score: 9.5/10 🎨🖌️ Best for: we all need this book - fresh grads, midlife crisis, early retirement, Forbes 40 under 40 - we all need to take a day and just complete the workbook (at least once and forever more over and over again) BATB lingering thought: -0.5 points because there were moments in the book that I was like, 🙄 I understand already please stop repeating yourself Best to: why wasn’t this taught in school?! this is critical! emergency! paging Dr. Beat emergen

BATB score: 4/10 🙄 a complete waste of time after page 42 onwards Best to: needle in a haystack must search far and wide for the good bits in a bunch of wikipedia word vomit Best as: there’s only two good bits (1) Pick the right industry under the best macro trends for booster shine: “Look for the beach with the biggest waves. Market dynamics trump individual performance, so give yourself the best chance by going where the opportunities are the greatest.” (2) Dump your poor

BATB score: 4.5/10 ⭕️ and that’s why monks have no friends (and lives in a forest) 🌳🙏 Best to: the way the book is written is conversational, he said, he said, then he said, so it’s like you’re eavesdropping to a 1-1 discussion without the audience in mind; it’s all over the place, where’s the meat, what’s the point, where am I? BATB lingering thought: I hate a panel discussion whether that’s 1-1 or worst yet 1-3, listening in to a conversation is not how humans best intake

BATB score: 5/10 ❤️‍🩹 second time reading this book and still 50-50 love/hate this book; Shad Helmstetter - truly reaping the goodie passive income of this book since 1986 (before I was born) and then upselling with his self-talk plus app with a monthly subscription of $19.99, payment via his own website to bypass Apple Store and Google Play store 30% transactions fee; you ahh, business man much Best to: there’s many ways to self-hype: silent self-talk (voices in your brain)

BATB score: 9.5/10 🤯 interesting indeed, “Die with Zero” is the idea that we make all that money, we spend all that money within our prime health, and we die with zero (not negative but zero excess) in the bank - yolo Best for: you’ve did it! you’ve already made way too much money! - now please spend more and “make ‘maximize total life enjoyment’ your mantra” Best to: build more net worth for who again? “wealth will decline to zero by the date of death” anyways BATB lingerin

BATB score: 9/10 🥹 second time reading this beautiful reminder to reclaiming life from work (that awful work that will never love you back) Best to: have other defining identities beyond work, ask “what do you like to do?” over “what do you do” > I am a avid reader, author of Beauty and The Book page, a travel the world enthusiast, a beloved friend to some / a mean friend to some, a good asian daughter and daughter-in-law, I have sailor-moon energy to share, some call me sun

BATB score: 3/10 😡 oh my god shut up please Best as: a white entitled american auntie repeating “Let Them” 850 times and “Let Me” 575 times BATB lingering thought: I am going to Let Her write and love this book; and I am going to Let Me complaining about it on BATB. The chapters on finding love were exponentially cringey. Best to: search Mel Robbins on Instagram and watch maximum 3 reels [one for the core Let Them theory, one for the Friendship theory (proximity, timing, ene

BATB score: 2/10 😡 an ancient book - published in 1992 aka 33 years ago! 🕵️‍♀️ Best to: thoughts shape your mood, low mood dismisses wisdom, wisdom comes from staying in the present; yeah, that’s about it BATB lingering thought: okie this a key life lesson, when asked what is a book you’ll recommend, knowing that the person asking and/or the audience listening would never read that book anyways, always recommend a book with a title that is a full sentence in itself; instant

BATB score: 8/10 💠 you know some people intentionally have affairs in dreams? Best to: if we live until 90 years old, of which we would have spent 30 years just sleeping and 25% of that sleep in REM, we would have spent 7.5 years (literally) dreaming 💭 Best for: now you can be conscious in your dreams, imagine if you can control your dreams and put them to better use ie. entertainment, exploration (of unethical dilemmas), experimentation, and/or enlightenment 🤯 Best as: di

BATB score: 8/10 👨‍🏫 hey hey not bad professor! short, concise, to the point, research-driven, fun, with key chapter takeaways, and super actionable 💯 Best as: listening to one of Professor Michael L. Platt, Director of Wharton Neuroscience Initiative, lectures Best for: as if you are an MBA student at Wharton Business School Best to: easy morning class and off you go, on to the rest of your day BATB linger thought: there is a clear gap between a researcher/professor and r

BATB score: 8/10 ❤️‍🩹 Best as: affordable therapy in book form, DIY-self-therapist, pick a theme/chapter that suits your needs and read away 💯 Best to: explanation, examples, exercises; not all chapters would be applicable, but there’s a chapter for everyone BATB lingering thought: mine is chapters Family Drama, What Holds Us Back, Self-Esteem, Body Image, and The Ups and Downs of Stress 🫠 Best for: we all need therapy ❤️‍🩹 Best quotes: “Cringing happens when it feels too

BATB score: 8/10 👏 Best to: great words of wisdom from an old retired uncle vibe about the meanings of life (note that meanings is plural) Best as: sometimes old retired uncle contradict himself and repeat himself but we listen politely anyways Best for: anyone who is sprinting to chase success and at times wonders “wait why though”? Best quotes: “Reaching the summit of money but getting there feeling empty, lonely and unhappy, isn’t winning. It’s losing.” “We are all dreami

BATB score: 2/10 😡 you’ve wasted my time *said with an intimidating resting bitch face* please go zen away from me Best as: this is not how you introduce Buddhism to busy people; this is how you pissed off busy people with your repetitive writing style, softie storytelling, and weakest Buddhism pitch Best to: hire a very good ghost writer, re-write this book to a third of the size, get to the point don’t waste time, raise only your killer best stories, gain better street cre