Who Moved My Cheese? - Review

About Book:

This book is written by Dr. Spencer Johnson. A short, light-hearted parable about the different ways we respond to life's changes and how doing so skillfully can help us find more success and happiness in our lives. Perfect for you if:

           * You're going through a difficult change at home or at work.

           * You know someone who's stuck in a rut and just can't seem to move on.

           * You're looking for an uplifting book you can devour in a couple of hours.

Who Moved My Cheese? 

Review:

It is a short, light-hearted parable about change. It follows the physical and emotional journeys of four characters - Sniff, Scurry, Hem & Haw - as they search, fin, lose and must rediscover their favorite food, cheese, in a large, twisting maze.

Cheese is a metaphor for what you want in life - a good job, a loving relationship, money, possessions, health or spiritual peace of mind. The maze is where you look for it -  the organization you work for, the family or community you live in. And the problem is that no source of cheese lasts forever. Life changes, whether we like it or not.

The story splits in two. Scurry & Sniff quickly accept the loss of the cheese and go off into maze in search of other sources. The little people, because they have built their lives around the big cheese, feel they are the victim of some kind of fraud or theft. Yet this only makes things worse, as their clinging on ensures that they go hungry. meanwhile, the mice move on and find new cheese. The fable captures well that moment after we have lost a job or a relationship and we believe it is the end of the world. All the good things were in the previous situation, and all the future holds is fear. Instead of seeing change as the end of something, we must learn to see it as a beginning.

For life not to be wasted, it demands a level of risk and adventure. If you are willing to live this way, change loses its horror. In fact, the advancing person purposely creates change because the world is not currently how they would like it. What the Little men, Hem and Haw, discover is that breaking through your fears makes you free. Those who continually seek security, ironically, are wracked by the possibility that they may lose it.

Change is inevitable. Anticipate it, adapt to it, learn from it and learn to embrace and enjoy it. Do so and you won't just suffer less stress and unhappiness, you'll enjoy more success and fulfillment in every part of your life and your work. From Sniff and Scurry, we learned something useful about moving on. They kept life simple. They didn't overanalyze or overcomplicate things. When the situation changed and the cheese had been moved, they changed and moved with the cheese.