Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change In Your Work and In Your Life by Spencer Johnson.

4/5 rating. 94 pages.

Book #46 of 2021. Read May 24, 2021.

This is a cute, short parable about the importance of adjusting to change.

I thought the actual parable was fun and though obviously over-the-top on its generalizations of different people and its use of go-get-’em phrases, it was still a nice little reminder that change is constant and that fear is so often unfounded. Unless you also want the after-school-special version of discussing it, you probably can skip the pre- and post-portions of the story.

As Haw (one of the characters) writes on the wall: “Old beliefs do not lead you to new cheese.”

Sometimes it’s easy to get stuck in ways, but beware of getting complacent because you don’t want to be lost at a point wondering what happened to my cheese.

If you’re feeling a little stuck, you could probably take a half hour and have time to read this useful story, digest it, and see if you can overcome your fear and move towards the new cheese.

Quotes:

“Life is no straight and easy corridor along

which we travel free and unhampered,

but a maze of passages,

through which we must seek our way,

lost and confused, now and again

checked in a blind alley.

But always, if we have faith,

a door will open for us,

not perhaps one that we ourselves

would ever have thought of,

but one that will ultimately

prove good for us.” – A.J. Cronin

“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”

“He knew when you change what you believe, you change what you do.”

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