Product Description: Who Moved My Cheese? is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life - whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money or a possession, health or spirital peace of mind. And the maze is where you look for what you want - the organisation you work in, or the family or community you live in. This profound book from bestselling author, Spencer Johnson, will show you how to anticipate change, adapt to change quickly, enjoy change and be ready to change quickly again and again. Discover the secret for yourself and learn how to deal with change, so that you suffer from less stress and enjoy more success in your work and in life. Written for all ages, this story takes less than an hour to read, but its unique insights can last for a lifetime.
Cheese-Intriguing Metaphor Cheese - this is the most intriguing metaphor I've ever seen! I still have no idea why Spencer Johnson used that, but it seems to me that he used Cheese as means of social skills or flexibility. I guess we must get rid of our old cheese to adapt to any changes. Otherwise, we will be likely to be left behind or social loners. According to this book, 2 mice, Sniff and Scurry were sophisticated enough to get new Cheese. On the other hand, 2 Littlepeople, Hem and Haw got agitated because the Cheese at Cheese Station C, where they felt comfortable, disappeared out of the blue. At first, they gradually ran out of their energies, not knowing what to do next. However, Haw began to think twice as he wrote the messages on each wall for Hem. Therefore, Haw got back on his feet again and found New Cheese at Cheese Station N, where he could be friends with Sniff and Scurry! What happened to Hem? He was so stubborn that he dwelled on Cheese Station C, where no cheese existed. Unfortunately, nobody can tell whether Hem would change his mind. But everybody in this story would feel happier, if Hem decided to get New Cheese instead of sticking to Old one! Anyway, I'd say no one can promise what you have is always useful forever, because everything changes in the world.
Toddlers couldn't event learn something from this book... The laborious, trite and utterly useless content in this book really makes one wonder just who ACTUALLY needs things like this. The values, concepts, etc. covered in the book should be known, understood and well accepted by the time one reaches, at the latest, 10 years of age. As for the corporate aspect of things: it is absolutely insulting and doesn't even qualify as "half-truth".
There is a wide variety of thought-provoking, conversation-inspiring and life-changing books out there written on similar topics. However, unlike this book, they are written in an adult, intelligent style. This book treats the reader like a child and provides no real "meat" to think about/discuss.
I would highly recommend reading some other books that ride on a much more foundation of intelligence, but ones that go beyond mere acceptance and discuss some of the psychological and sociological aspects of the world.
Too put it shorty: There's nothing to learn from this childish trash unless there really is something EXTREMELY wrong with your understanding of the world.
Don't insult yourself.
Very easy to read and understand I have heard about this book for many years but somehow never read it. I went through it recently and think it's a very easy-to-read book. The idea the author wants to express is straightforward and inspirational. It's a tiny story so I finish the book in very short time. But the idea the book talked about remains very clear in my mind. I should say that means the author really did a good job.
I like it and recommend it.
Are You in a rut I had forgotten what a great read this book was. I first read this book about nine years ago when I was going through a bad spot financially it had the desired effect and since then it sat on the bookshelf in my study, my eight year old daughter was going through a bad patch at school so, I dusted it off and sat down with both my girls and read them the story. What a reminder of how your mind plays tricks on us and how we can be our own worst enemy by holding on to the baggage of the past and not moving with opportunities. When things change so should we. So, you feel like you're in a rut grab yourself a coffee find a quite spot and sit down and read Who moved My Cheese.
Corporate greed manifest! This book is handed out by corporate scoundrels (drones) to nice people (workers) in yet another heinous, greed-driven, hubristic attempt to repress the American worker.
In fact, that's the very reason for the "popularity" of this egregious handful of pure trash. Corporations buy millions of volumes of this mind-bender to hand out to unsuspecting employees for "training" (brainwashing).
I'll confess that this HAS to be the most shrewdly-written piece of propaganda ever committed to paper. Goebbels would have been proud of such a handbook of Centrist, self-serving, excusado of corporate treachery! *.*
It's all about making decent, hard-working employees manifest a great horror and a personal fear of losing their jobs, therefore requiring an undeserved respect for rotten corporate employers, accepting much less than they're entitled to for their hard work. This thing would have Exxon employees genuflecting to their CEO for his devoted environmental concerns!
I gave this book ONE STAR, only because it's not an option to give it less than ZERO!
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