Book Review ("Bounce Forward" by Sam Cawthorn)

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"Bounce Forward" by Sam Cawthorn tells us how to transform crisis into success. The author has interwoven his personal experience of how he learnt resilience after the traumatic accident which gave him excruciating pain and left him an amputee with prosthetic limbs.

"What is to give light must endure pain". Crisis is inevitable. It can be tough and traumatic but it's a great initiator which makes us take decisions during make-or-break points and allows us to connect to our purpose.

Author highlights a term called "halftime" which means every life has a halftime just as football or basketball games have. We must assess the first half to see if we perform well if not we have the second half to put it right.

Facing crisis becomes more difficult due to our inhibition to admit our vulnerability. We are born vulnerable. When we are children we never have this inhibition but as we grow we think this vulnerability as our weakness. But being vulnerable means being open to change. In order to learn and grow we have to be as vulnerable as children.

In one of the chapters he alludes to Gary Chapman's book,"The 5 Love Languages of Love", which proposes humans communicate themselves via five key languages of love:
✓Words of affirmation
✓Acts of service
✓Sharing gifts
✓Quality time
✓Physical touch
most of the familial crises arise due to our ignorance of others' language.

Ultimately facing crisis is inevitable. Its not linear rather we have to spiral through phases of progress and failure to BOUNCE FORWARD.

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