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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 8.8/10 ⭐️ A complete collection of all the popular social psychology fallacy out there. Trust me, this is the only social psychology book you'll ever need to own / to read. Best to: know that David McRaney refers to Daniel Kahneman "Thinking Fast and Slow" and to Dan Ariely "Predictably Irrational" while both Daniel and Dan referred back to David; seems like a small social psychologist community eh? Best for: if you have not explored any social psychology book or

BATB score: 7/10 👽 meh. not bad for a very simple concept on gut/instinct decision-making to be elaborated adequately with interesting storytelling. Best to: know that first impressions would mostly stick - that's why speed dating is not only effective but time-efficient Best for: book fanatics of Malcolm Gladwell; if you have not read any of Gladwell's pieces, please start with Outliers and/or The Tipping Point Best as: okay Malcolm, I like the cover of this book, while the

BATB score: 10/10 💕 Dan Ariely fan girl 🙋‍♀️ right here! Best to: a comical illustration of behavioural economics and human intrinsic and extrinsic psychology - highlighting Dan Ariely's greatest experimentations in a cartoon comic strip (it does not get any better than this!) Best for: a lot of Dan Ariely's old, known social experimentations and stated conclusions on market norms vs social norms; but still very happy to re-read about them with love Best as: money (market n

BATB score: 8.8/10 🤍 *Reader Discretion Advised* not for the faint heart 💔 - the description of child trauma cases were explicit, heart-breaking, depressing, and unfortunately true stories. Best to: this is not a leisure read but an exploratory, educational, specialised read; as a matter of fact, this is a required textbook for undergraduate and graduate classes in sociology, neuroscience, psychology, criminology, and many other disciplines #respect Best for: keen academic

BATB score: 6.7/10 🤧 a legit good book about dealing with life's struggles through psychologists-style talking-it-through: drinking problem, break-ups, unhappiness, sickness and death; yet the book's narration was long and slow Best to: reading this book equates to 10 in-depth sessions with a therapist - congratulations, do did done; it's about the therapist, her patients, her therapist, and his patients with legit therapist comments and recommendations throughout Best for:

BATB score: 9/10 🌈 psychologist Dr Julie Smith believes that everybody need to manage their mental well-being 💟 yet not everybody can afford a session with a psychologist; this book shares the techniques and supportive tool for you to self-DIY fix your mental health 💯 #thankyou Best to: when feeling overwhelmed, acknowledge that it is okay to feel overwhelmed, take a step back and ask "why is this so important to me?", maybe it is actually not that important and if it is i

BATB score: 4/10 💧🌼 Okay. I am unsure on whether you wanted this book to be a behavioral economics book or an autobiography; either way the switch of sort confuses things. Best to: if you are going to read one Susan Cain book, check out “Quiet” instead Best as: the four humors are melancholic (sad), sanguine (happy), choleric (aggressive), and phlegmatic (calm); feeling alive is to feel all these Best for: people who experience fluctuations of happiness and sorrow has a hig

BATB score: 8/10 💕 a few weeks after Osamu Dazai wrote No Longer Human, he and his wife committed suicide by drowning in a canal near their house; that was also a week before his 39th birthday *reader discretion advised* this book is not for everyone; this book covers suicide, addiction, abuse, depression, depersonalization disorder Best to: this book is a semi-autobiography, semi-novel, semi-suicide-death-note; it’s like he is trying to tell us something, a final word to wh

BATB score: 10/10 ❤️‍🩹 wow just wow. 👏👏👏 Best to: a very important read for our generation about complex-PTSD from our upbringings, to adulthood dark clouds, to cutting ties (the frown upon / non-asian way) to heal, to finding numerous alternative help, and just surviving day by day 🥹 Best for: anyone who resonates with this statement “the stress of not meeting their elders’ expectations in a culture where they have to please their elders is real” Best as: “the three P’s

BATB score: 7/10 🥹 epic deep deep stuff about forgiving your mom and dad ❤️‍🩹 Best as: it’s a research textbook proposing, justifying, and dissecting the sole premise that “maybe the trauma we’re experiencing may not be ours but rather our parent’s, our grandparent’s, and/or our great-grandparent’s trauma (that is left unsolved)”. Best to: an extremely debatable premise that needs further research and exploration but definitely a great initial effort by Mark Wolynn 👏 [2016

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: 8/10 🌸 *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