BATB score: 8/10 Best as: A book on how to work smarter through solving big problems via thinking small Best to: know how to win in a hot dog eating competition. Hysterical. Love the stories. Love the experiments. Best for: seekers of data-driven analysis of random life situations

BATB score: 3/10 Spoiler Alert: Thursdays in the morning Best to: Difficult to read. 131 ADHD thoughts of a freakonomics; questioning the world and trying to answer them with supportive but inconclusive economics Best for: those who has read Think Like a Freak and/or any sapiosexual of the freakonomics authors

BATB score: 4/10 apples and oranges, Best to: stories started to repeat; yes, sequels. I comprehend and forgave. Best for: read ‘Think Like a Freak’ first, then we talk

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: 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: 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 🙏💫 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: 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: 9/10 ⭐️ Reader disclaimer: BATB loves Dan Ariely #fangirl love his writing style, his quirky experiments, and his natural curiosity to the oddest things; so would a picture of flowers 🌸 or of eyeballs 👀 make you more honest? Like what? Best to: so how do we cheat without feeling too bad about cheating when not cheating at all is just stupid Best as: so the extent of cheating increases when you believe you are Robin Hood “we cheat because we are good people who c

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