20 Jul 2020
Who Moved My Cheese [Full Detail Summary]
This is the story of Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and Your Life by Spencer Johnson, who is an author of children's books and created a parable book that people can relate too.
The book is a #1 Bestseller and the world's most popular management method. Dr. Johnson is an author, speaker, and management consultant, born in South Dakota. He earned a degree in psychology and an M.D. In 1998, during a time of significant change that was going on in the world, Dr. Johnson wrote a book to help people and businesses deal with change (https://www.readtosuccess.in/2020/07/rich-dad-poor-dad-book-summary.html). In this book, Johnson uses simple parables to show lessons that the characters in the book go through in the story
The story begins as an old fairytale with, once upon a time, and only deals with four characters and cheese. Now cheese is used to make a person happy or what a person holds dear to them. The main characters are a pair of little people and mice name Hem, Haw, Sniff, and Scurry. They live in their own houses outside of a big maze. Every day, the four-character would head out into the maze to find the cheese. Now, there was a difference between the little people & the mice, of course.
The mice were unaffected and used trial & error method to find the cheese, which one mouse would smell for the location of the cheese, and the other would run ahead, and most time, they would be wrong. On the other hand, the little people had complex brains with belief and emotion as it is told in the book. Because of the few people's sophisticated minds, it made life in the maze harder for them. Not long after, the characters found their cheese in what the book calls, cheese station C.
As time passes, the humans got comfortable thinking (https://www.readtosuccess.in/2020/07/book-summary-mindwise-how-we-understand-what-others-think-believe-feel-and-want.html) the cheese would be there forever. But as time pass, the mice started to notice that the supply of cheese was getting low. Then one day, both the mice & little people came to Cheese Station C and found no more cheese. The mice didn't panic, and they just went into the maze to find more food. On the other hand, the little people found themselves in a pickle, wondering what happens to the cheese. Hem and Haw stayed in cheese station C, wondering what happens, and not adapting.
Then, one day Haw decides to go looking for new cheese in the maze, but by this time, the mice had already found fresh cheese in cheese station N. Haw went off into the maze to find new cheese and left ham at the station. During his travels in the maze, Haw learns a lot of great lessons that anyone could in any part of their life. Haw was teaching readers what not to do when facing change. On the other hand, the hem didn't want to leave the station, he got too comfortable and felt the cheese would return.
After much time in the maze Hew, finally reach Cheese station N, where he found the motherload of cheese. During his travels to find the cheese, Haw wrote on the wall of all the lessons that he learned, hoping one day his friend would one-day leave station C. Haw now make sure to check the cheese level and make it doesn't go wrong. Haw learn to change, and be ready to change quickly again & again. The story ends with Haw hearing footsteps in the maze.
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