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: 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: 7/10 😨💙🌀 BATB reading level: advanced Suzanne O'Sullivan is an Irish neurologist - her book title, “It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness”, is basically the one-liner summary of this book Best for: you have to be into mystery illnesses, extraordinary people, ripley’s believe it or not, doctor’s tell-all documentary, TLC tabloid shows to read this book; because it’s sick and it’s about a super niche topic but it’s so damn interesting Best to:

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 ☠️ Best for: loyal fan clubs of Atul Gawande who would like to complete all of Atul Gawande’s 4 written masterpieces 📚 Best as: did you know that sometimes doctors forget to wash their hands before conducting invasive surgery on you? Yep, that’s why the medical system and safety check and balance is loose as hell. Best to: how the solution is simply and literally a checklist to go through before every surgery, flight, investment, etc.; just a mere checklist

BATB score: 6/10 😷 extremely heavy deep dive analysis on the pandemic that has happened and any future pandemic to happen 😴 definitely too heavy for the general public’s brains Best for: policy makers, WHO personnels, NGO leaders, ministry of health managers, and Bill Gates’ mega rich friends who are so influential that they can make a difference in this world Best to: Bill Gates to do an 18-minutes TedTalk on the content of this book instead to better appeal to the general

BATB score: 7/10 🔥 Burnout is a company’s problem not an individual’s illness. Providing Headspace app membership and/or Modern Health zoom workshop does not constitute as “a company that has demonstrated care for employees well-being”. Best to: the causes of burnout, the measures against burnout, and the self-care needed for leadership with burnout fighting for other employees to not burnout Best for: HR and C-level leadership who wants their legacy to include “demonstrates

BATB score: 8/10 🇰🇵🇰🇷 The other stuff about North Korea beyond the typical authors on defectors, starvation, reunification, and Kims. Best as: a thorough interview style qualitative research on North Korea; discussion of a capitalist movement in a communist country Best for: curious minds on/of North Korea - have you ever wondered where North Korean bought make-up? What kind of sanitary pads they are using? Do they watch porn? Best to: know that the grass is always greene

BATB score: 8.5/10 🩺🩻👩‍⚕️ *Disclaimer* In another life, I do wish to be a surgeon. I do have an unfair favoritism towards doctor/surgeon related books. Best to: Atul Gawande is exceptionally talented in being a surgeon, an author, and a researcher; living proof that you can be and you can nail so many things in one lifetime Best as: so many interesting topics from mysterious illnesses, to when doctors go wild, to real life cases - literally a day in a life of Atul Gawande

BATB score: 2/10 😒 Mariana Mazzucato, my friend, please take a chill pill; all the beautiful concepts no real world practical next steps Best for: my friend, you are saying so many things that you are not saying anything at all Best to: my friend, there were some pages that include the good stuff, how about we re-write this my friend to something more friendly? Best as: my friend, you are saying a lot of thing about the same thing just over and over again; my friend, you are

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: 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: 3/10 🙈 This book covers only one premise: pay attention to details / look objectively and carefully (that's about it) 👀 Best to: a thick-ass book with numerous examples repeating the same premise above; this whole book can be summarized into a one-pager or a 18-mins TedTalk BATB lingering thought: I hate the way this book is written. Reminds me of school where the teacher asks the class the extremely obvious annoying question "can anyone tell me what is in this

BATB score: 4/10 🍎 when life is truly not on your side - the minute you are born, you have drawn the short straw and life is forever against you at the end of the day, it’s a really good story; you understand why innocent baby grew up gangsta, killing people, and ended up in jail and you feel the love the mother truly has for her children even when she have nothing to offer Best for: daredevils - the book is so longgggg (525 pages with font size 10 est. minimum reading 20+ h

BATB score: 8.5/10 👀 Best for: raise your hand if you agree with any part this statement: I, personally, feel that my attention span is fleeting, that I have difficulty concentrating, that my relationship with social media is toxic, and that my wrists ache from holding a mobile phone up too long. 🙆🏻‍♀️ Best to: the book acknowledges that we all have shorter attention spans and more difficulty with concentration; the book then explores twelve potential causes to why this is