Who Moved My Cheese

Maria Ryan
Sep 5, 2018 · 2 min read

Title: Who Moved My Cheese

Author: Spencer Johnson

Mice, Men, Change, and Cheese

Who Moved My Cheese breaks down the mechanisms of change, why it’s imperative for growth, how it breeds fear and why we humans are naturally resistant to the very idea.

It does this in a simple enough for all yet slightly condescending way by telling us the story of two mice who live in a maze along with two little humans who also live in the same maze.

When it’s time to find cheese, the mice instinctively know what the humans resist. That is, the mice do whatever it takes to find that cheese. When the cheese is moved, the mice don’t sit around getting upset or pondering how something so catastrophic could happen to them. They simply get on with finding more cheese.

The two humans by comparison find cheese, get good, fat, lazy, and super entitled with their cheese mansion but when hard times fall and the cheese disappears, they fall apart. Then, the brighter of the two humans figures out that they should take a page from the mice playbook and get over themselves, get out there and find cheese again.

The moral is that we naturally resist change. Change equals fear of the unknown. You will feel fear. Get out there and embrace change anyway.

Yes, it’s overly simplified and not at all deep but this is what it all comes down to in the end.

Though you might hear yourself uttering the word “duh” throughout the book, it’s still a good reminder and it will take no more than an hour to read.

BRB Rating: Read It.


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