Book info

• Title Who Moved My Cheese?
• Author Spencer Johnson
• Year 1999
• Genre Business

It is the 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, for example a good job, a loving relationship, money or possessions, health or spiritual peace of mind. The maze is where you look for what you want, perhaps the organisation you work in, or the family or community you live in. The problem is that the cheese keeps moving. In the story, the characters are faced with unexpected change in their search for the cheese. One of them eventually deals with change successfully and writes what he has learned on the maze walls for you to discover. You'll learn how to anticipate, adapt to and enjoy change and be ready to change quickly whenever you need to. Discover the secret of the writing on the wall for yourself and enjoy less stress and more success in your work and life. Written for all ages, this story takes less than an hour to read, but its unique insights will last a lifetime.

Thoughts

I’d read this one before, but when Mr C asked me about it, I realised I couldn’t really remember the point of it. Something about not getting too het up about stuff.

We dug out the physical copy, because it’s not available via the Amazon Kindle store, and in a spur of the moment type thing, I read the whole story aloud to Mr C.

It is a good story, although by the end it seems to drag on a bit. You’ve already got the point but they still have more lessons for you to learn. Don’t be scared of change is the point, but to highlight it with mice and cheese is great. Although I did get distracted occasionally, thinking of the moon being made of cheese and things like that.

Still, it’s worth reading, it doesn’t take very long at all, and now I hope I’m going to be able to remember what it’s actually about.

Rating: 4 / 5