Barry Moltz starts off his book by explaining right up front that he is a rare breed of entrepreneur. He talks very candidly about failure (which should thrill my personal expert on blogging about failure, Becky McCray). Often. In fact, Barry’s made a profession out of it. So, right off the bat, Bounce takes a strange bounce and gets you thinking, “It’s easy to read about good times, but what will life be like if (when?) I suffer a failure in my business or my personal life?”
Countless stories and anecdotes are collected in this book, and the research is probably the best selling point of Bounce. Barry threads his own stories through it, but he backs everything he says up by three or four or five examples from other people’s lives.
In one way, this made the storytelling aspect of the book a little diffuse. Barry leads off the book with his story, goes into more of his story, and then uses his story as part of the backbone of the book, but there’s SO MUCH of other people’s experiences in the book, that I found myself a bit distracted by it all.
This isn’t really a knock, because this book is LOADED with things to think about, and his research assistant, who is thanked in the acknowledgments, deserves whatever he paid her and more. This book is chock full of stories on failure.
I recommend Bounce to budding entrepreneurs, especially those who maybe have their heads in the clouds and aren’t considering how to prepare for the dips in the road. It will certainly get your mind racing. In fact, maybe don’t read this just before bed. It might deliver a healthy dose of insomnia.
Check it out here: Bounce!: Failure, Resiliency, and Confidence to Achieve Your Next Great Success
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