Who moved my Cheese Book Review

Who Moved My Cheese?

Who moved my Cheese?, is a book by Spencer Johnson. Don't go by the size, this book is very profound. The story features four characters namely Sniff and Scurry, who are two mice and two littlepeople, Hem and Haw who very much behave like us humans. The book explains their search for cheese through a maze.

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While the mice used simple trial and error method, the little people used their complex brains to develop more sophisticated methods of finding cheese.

When the cheese at Station C finished, both the mice adapted well to the situation and began searching for new cheese, while the two littlemen found it hard to digest the fact that their old cheese was no more left. They shouted, complained about how it wasn't fair and stayed at one place hoping that by some miracle they will find the cheese in the same station.

Later on one of the littlepeople, namely Haw realized that he cannot sit idle hoping for things to change, he understood that he should move and search for the new cheese, rather than complaining about the situation. While he accepted the change his companion Hem, resisted it and stayed at the same station, hoping things to automatically get better.

Through this simple story the author explains that how we resist change, how we see it as something horrible, rather than a new adventure and growth stimulus. We try to ignore what happens around us  and then get in trouble. Change is happening everywhere. We can do better when we adjust to it quickly. One should see themselves enjoying change. It lightens everything up.

So be like Sniff and Scurry, who sniff the change and jump into action. Although Haw was initially reluctant but he soon understood that for things to get better he needs to change. At times we keep on sticking to our old ideas and believes like hem, which hampers our growth. Accepting change will allow us to bloom and to be learned human.

All in all, this  is a must read book to learn the importance of change, that too in a very simple yet profound way.