Date: 2010.03.25
The Impressions of Who Moved My Cheese Today I read a famous American writer Herbert Spencer Johnson’s book Who Moved My Cheese, I have some idea about this book.
About the author
Dr. Spencer Johnson is one of the world’s most influentia l thinkers and beloved authors. He is renowned for his brief, profound parables that help millions of people manage in changing times and rejuvenate their spirits. The former physician’s books focus on discovering how to enjoy healthier success, with more meaning and less stress, at work and in life. His ten international bestselling books include Who Moved My Cheese? Over 40 million copies of Dr. Johnson’s books are in print in 42 languages.
About the preface
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.
About the cheese
“Cheese” being a metaphor for what we want to have in life , whether it is a job a relationship, money, a big house, freedom, healthy, recognition, and so on.
Four characters
Sniff: It sniff out the situation and see the change early.
Scurry: It goes into action immediately.
Hem: It wants to stay in familiar territory, doesn’t want to deal with the change.
Hew: It knows wrong, laugh itself, change and do better. About the story
One day, they found a room which had a lot of cheese, and they lived happily together. After some years, all the cheese disappeared. Then the mice looked for cheese with their shoes again, and they found another room with cheese soon. Although, men were much clever than mice, they didn’t find and eat cheese soon. They were sad, cried everyday; they still had nothing to eat. Suddenly, Haw knew that if they don’t look for cheese, the cheese will not go to there. So he left the room and to look for new cheese. During the days to find cheese, Haw has many feelings.
Words on the wall
1Having Cheese Makes You Happy
2. The More Important Your Cheese Is To You The More You Want To Hold Onto It
3. If You Do Not Change, You Can Become Extinct
4. What would you do if you weren't afraid?
5. Smell Your Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old
6. Movement In A New Direction Helps You Find A New Cheese.
7. When You Move Beyond You Fear, You Feel Free
8. Imagining Myself Enjoying The Cheese, Even Before I Find It, Lead Me To It
9. The quick you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese
10. It Is Safer To Search In The Maze Than Remain In A Cheese less Station
11. Old Beliefs Do Not Lead You To The New Cheese
12. When You See That You Can Find New Cheese, You Change Course
13. Noticing Small Change Early Helps Adapt To Bigger Change That Are To Come
Lessons of Haw
He had stared to change as soon as he learned to laugh at himself and at what he had been doing wrong. He realized the
