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

BATB score: 1/10 💔 the book title has nothing to do with anything in the book Best as: Busy Philipps diary written for Busy Philipps; no tangible key takeaway just an FYI recollection of things that happened from teen pregnancy, to actress auditioning, to instagram stories, to Trump - this book does not change lives Best for: Busy Philipps and nobody else Best to: what did you want your readers to takeaway from this book, could have been a really good start before writing th

*disastrous books that have been wasting my time* BATB score: 1/10 😡 Best burn: well, if you are just going to discuss the frequently asked questions without actually answering them, please go away. Best to: keep the conversation in podcast format, unlike book readers, podcast listeners are more forgiving Best as: the book cover is cute 🦖 🦕 Best for: nobody, not intellectual stimulating, a waste of money and time

*disastrous books that have been wasting my time* BATB score: 1/10 😤 Best burn: if you assign a high school student to write a book on K-beauty (who, what, when, where, why, how, thoughts), you will get this book. Meet expectations. Best as: if you want to know what is botox Best to: know that Elise Hu, the author, is not the lady on the book cover Best for: nobody, not intellectual stimulating, a waste of money, a waste of time

BATB score: 8/10 🌸 *reader discretion advised* an advanced white paper making a breakthrough point on how the body says ’NO’ to a life spent living for someone else via chronic illnesses Best to: a sentence from the book that best describe the mood and tone and the premise of the book > “The dynamic interplay between social-conflict events and joint pain describe a homeostatic system in which negative social interaction is regulated through worsening of the disease.” Best fo