BATB score: 10/10 👏👏👏 *required reading for office employees* we need to redefine our relationship with work because it is overrated and unhealthy Best for: any one who has said they are ‘passionate’ about the industry, company, or role; do know that the feeling was never mutual 💔 Best as: if only we can compete on who has better work-life balance instead of who has better work success (over what sacrifice), life would be so much more enriching and interesting BATB linger

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 4.5/10 ⭕️ 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: 7/10 😬 okay but not wow about how feeling good boosts our creativity and productivity Best to: only part 1 out of 3 is a BATB 10/10, part 2 was a knock off copy of Atomic Habits by James Clear, and part 3 was Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett; every section in this book is an elevator pitch BATB lingering thought: book recommended to BATB by a renowned c-level.. could it be that he only read part 1? Best as: take a break by taking a walk esp. take park walks al

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: 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

BATB score: 3/10 ⌛️ Best to: this book on “time” is a waste of time Best as: Chris Guillebeau is a weakling Best for: too basic for valedictorians, IVY league graduates, wartime leaders, all-star employees, and asians BATB lingering thought: your best excuse to say no to anything is “No, thank you. I’m going to die one day.” Best quotes: “You feel regretful about the past, uncertain or hesitant about the present, and apprehensive of the future.” “If everything’s important, no