BATB score: 10/10! ⭐️🌟⭐️ Amazing. Bravo. Worth every chapter. Clear actionable. Reflective. Concise. #MarshallGoldsmith you genius! Best as: a wake-up call for all senior managers and/or C-level-to-be that “It’s not about you. It’s about what other people think of you” - you are now a public figure and showing such self-improvement desires is positively accepted Best for: 'bad boss attitude' may have gotten you here; but 'good boss leadership' will get you there Best as: dar

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: 10/10 🤍 for heaven and everyone up there Best to: beautifully written, very easy to grasp on the concepts of death, love, life, sacrifices, memories, and meaning Best for: maybe the best self-help book out there! powerfully narrated via a short novel; more moving than any 1-2-3 step self-growth book Now, I am reminiscing about all the faces and friendships; and now this extrovert-turned-introvert me who is living in midlife solitude just want to cry an ugly cry B

BATB score: 8/10 🥰 I feel unlocked, uncaged, and untamed! I am a CHEETAH! 🐯🐲🐾 Best as: all the societal judgement and ladylike expectations limits us to be true to ourselves; in no other life (because we only have one life), let you be you. Best for: who run the world? cheetahs! 🙋‍♀️ Best to: a powerful self improvement book via Glennon's stories; there must be something that you can relate to: christianity, LGBTQI+, divorced, bulimia, alcoholism, adam&eve, children, eve

BATB score: 8.8/10 🤍 Psychiatrist on childhood trauma "Dr. Bruce D. Perry" meets billionaire most influential person "Oprah Winfrey" in a critical book discussing the messed up things adults do to children, the childhood trauma faced, how it affects a child, and how to heal a broken one. Best to: stop being so judgmental and asking "what's wrong with you?" but rather compassionately ask "what happened to you?" as something must have had happened that wasn't right Best for: s

BATB score: 5/10 🎯 This book is about taking a step back and understanding your true meaning of life, whether you have committed to such ambitions or have delayed such gratification. Claiming that friends and family are important to you yet will cancel on them for ad hoc work 💯%. Best to: the first half of the book was legit strong 💪 while the second half was a tad bit watery and wonky; yet definitely good stuff in its entirety, easily digestible and an easy read Best for:

BATB score: 7/10 ⚡️ Did I do my best to be happy? Did I do my best to find meaning? A book about owning your life as a protagonist for being a better version of yourself everyday. Best to: read Marshall Goldsmith's "What Got You Here Won't Get You There" 🌟 first and foremost; then if you are still keen, have a take on this book Best for: guilt-ridden victim of "satisficing" - our tendency to commodify everyday choices because chasing that last bit of improvement is not worth

BATB score: 9/10 💙 Best to: a twist to you only live once #yolo, live today like it's your last, the art of not giving a f*ck, and other time is finite mantras Best for: over-achievers, move fast rushers, high productivity zombies to take a chill pill 💊 Best as: we only have four thousand weeks; i am on my 1616/4000 week; with that said, am I living my current week the way I utmost want to? Best quote: “even the winners in our achievement-obsessed culture - the ones who mak

BATB score: 6/10 💩 okay but not wow Best to: if you haven't read Matt Haig's "Reasons to Stay Alive" and "The Midnight Library", please do that first and foremost; it's kind of obvious that this book wasn't made with as much thought process and care Best for: wouldn't you think my Matt Haig's collection complete? this book could also be a modern day bible on the teachings of how to be happier with what you got Best as: a poop 💩 book, a comfort book you take to the loo, read

BATB score: 6/10 🙏 an intensive spiritual book on the art of being in the now - preach Eckhart Tolle preach! amen good night 🌝 Best to: realize deeply that the present moment is all you have; but how? okay. close your eyes and say to yourself "I wonder what my next thought is going to be" .... and in that wait you are free of thought and in the now ta da! Best for: your ego is stuck in the past of who you were and in the future of you might be - key is, you will be happier

BATB score: 8.5/10 💙 a brilliant biography about the making of someone and the meaning of life Best to: the fact that James R. Doty, MD is a bad academic student with an unaccommodating family upbringing, an exceptionally neurosurgeon, a 75M USD business investor, a CCARE philanthropist, and an author of his own enlightenment makes him relatable 360 Best for: anyone who is asking 'what's the meaning of life'? 🙋‍♀️🙋 Best as: this book is "The Secret" Rhonda Byrne mixed with

BATB score: 10/10 🏆 the most important money book in mankind about having 'enough' and so anything more is mere incremental but I am already comfortable Best to: clarity in 'JOMO' joy of missing out when your friends post on social media about their high gains on crypto and/or stock investment as it's probably because of pure luck that can not be repeated Best for: all of us; questioner of 'meaning of life' and one's relationship with money Best as: the best investment strat

BATB score: 8/10 🕵️ easiest read in mankind. thank you Ray Dalio for dumbing the principles down for us to understand what you are trying to say 🙏 Best to: I feel like Ray Dalio is trying to squeeze out every money making opportunity while disgusting the attempt as 'the building of one's legacy' and 'sharing of one's learnings' #inspirational; this book is freaking expensive while the content is like itsy bitsy Best for: raise your hand if you believed "Principles" by Ray D

BATB score: 5/10 💤 Best to: you know that one annoying old uncle that all of us have? this book is like that old uncle trying to share some life lessons with you, he started out strong with good intentions definitely, yet he went on and on repeating himself so at the end it was wishy washy and you just want him to stop Best for: wisdom and road-to-happiness 101 Best as: don't bother - allow me to summarise this book for you in four points below *The Four Agreements* 1. Be Im

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: 3/10 😡 *and this score is me being nice; unpopular book review alert* redundancy at it's best, he said, she said, same shit Best to: this book is like a consultant; thoroughly researched (did their homework), professionally written/presented (tactful), saying all the right things, but OMG they're just quotes, nice concepts, impractical, fake, and fluffy OK?! Best for: plenty of instagramable quotes - urgh, it's so fake, I can not. Honestly, I believe I tackle my

BATB score: 7.6/10 🧐 well-researched, well-written, thoroughly analysed groundwork on how being a generalist makes you see the bigger picture and allows you to creatively strategise more than specialists; a very nerdy book #nerdalert Best to: serious documentation and experiments on how generalist rules, scrutinising the common belief that favors specialisation; yet redundant with the last few chapters quite wishy washy 💦 Best for: a lot of tech / business key opinion leade

BATB score: 6.7/10 👩‍💻🧑‍💻 💯 % important but not written for the general public; maybe if we write a more casual version and call it "Why You Should Not Date Your Boss", it may be more well-received la Best to: "Sleeping with my boss was a big mistake. I own it. Well, half of it. Problem was, I paid for all of it." and so SHE had to quit to save the HE in power; urgh so unfair! Best for: "What hurts the victim the most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence

BATB score: 8/10 💛 some chapters were exceptionally awesome while other chapter were just like okay okay la - I personally love love chapter 7 "Give Face" and chapter 8 "Check Your Weirdness" #veryimportantindeed Best to: the book is about how to be the bigger person in dealing with everyday conflicts from listening more, to the right way to say sorry, to how to save their face as well as your face #legit Best for: if your role and responsibility includes stakeholders manage