who moved my cheese book review
WHO MOVED MY CHEESE?
SPENCER JOHNSON
The book deals with the inevitable “Change” that we all face in our walks of life and ways to deal with it.
It all starts with a social gathering of several schoolmates discussing the various changes they all had faced and their incompetence to deal with it. That’s when Michael narrated them this inspiring story “WHO MOVED MY CHEESE?”
It’s a story about two mice “Sniff and Scurry” and two little men “Hem and Haw” who are in constant search of “Cheese”-being metaphor for what we want to have in our life like job, relationship, spiritual peace or freedom etc in a “Maze” representing the enormous world filled with difficulties-“blind alleys” and “dark corners”.
Sniff and Scurry being simple and modest used the inefficient trial and error method to find the cheese and hence even after the extinction of their existing cheese station they appeared to take the abrupt change in their stride and eventually found a better new one. On contrast, the little men with their complex thoughts were laid back in their emotions and continued to overanalyse and hem and haw about the new sudden change. Until, Haw finally decided to seek out for new cheese station in the maze leaving behind intransigent Hem with his fear for new troubles to be thrown at them and found out that the path of difficulties and twist and turns to be filled with an unknown joy than to be in persistent fretting and fuming.
Finally, when discovered the new Cheese Station N along with Sniff and Scurry, he recalled the lessons learnt in the due process and remembering Hem, wrote on the wall for inspiration,
“Change happens, anticipate, monitor and adapt to it and change with delight than fearful disbeliefs”.
Learning from the same the friends found that their behaviour and peer pressure plays a very vital role in coping with changes and bid farewell to each other thanking Michael for this inspirational story and went on to find their new cheese in their lives with a new
SPENCER JOHNSON
The book deals with the inevitable “Change” that we all face in our walks of life and ways to deal with it.
It all starts with a social gathering of several schoolmates discussing the various changes they all had faced and their incompetence to deal with it. That’s when Michael narrated them this inspiring story “WHO MOVED MY CHEESE?”
It’s a story about two mice “Sniff and Scurry” and two little men “Hem and Haw” who are in constant search of “Cheese”-being metaphor for what we want to have in our life like job, relationship, spiritual peace or freedom etc in a “Maze” representing the enormous world filled with difficulties-“blind alleys” and “dark corners”.
Sniff and Scurry being simple and modest used the inefficient trial and error method to find the cheese and hence even after the extinction of their existing cheese station they appeared to take the abrupt change in their stride and eventually found a better new one. On contrast, the little men with their complex thoughts were laid back in their emotions and continued to overanalyse and hem and haw about the new sudden change. Until, Haw finally decided to seek out for new cheese station in the maze leaving behind intransigent Hem with his fear for new troubles to be thrown at them and found out that the path of difficulties and twist and turns to be filled with an unknown joy than to be in persistent fretting and fuming.
Finally, when discovered the new Cheese Station N along with Sniff and Scurry, he recalled the lessons learnt in the due process and remembering Hem, wrote on the wall for inspiration,
“Change happens, anticipate, monitor and adapt to it and change with delight than fearful disbeliefs”.
Learning from the same the friends found that their behaviour and peer pressure plays a very vital role in coping with changes and bid farewell to each other thanking Michael for this inspirational story and went on to find their new cheese in their lives with a new