Who Moved My Cheese, By Dr. Spencer Johnson

The book Who Moved My Cheese is about change and how it can affect how you are in life. Some people take changes hard while others just go with the flow. Some are ready for a change when the time comes and others want things to never change.

The first portion of the novel deals mostly with Hewes life and why he lived the life that he did. Young’s portrayal of a young Hewes, ever defiant, immediately causes a reader to reminisce of his or her own childhood. It soon becomes evidently clear that “where one ended up in life depended

The narrator then gets up and walks outside, and then the unexpected happens. “…The changing” takes place in the husband. His change makes it to where “the hair begun to come away all over his body…he was white all over, then, like a worm’s skin…” This continues the idea that not everything is exactly as it seems. The wife was in shock since her husband “turned into the hateful one.” The “thing my [the wife] husband had turned into” then howls “a crazy, awful howling”, which can be thought as the yelling a human does. This creature is then told to be a “man thing”, or man, who “had no gun, like the ones from man places do”. Men who hunt wild animals will most often have a gun or weapon for defense, but since this man had no weapon he “picked up a heavy fallen tree branch in its long white foot.” This startles the wolf family because the mother “knew the man would kill” the wolf puppies. The wife knows that her husband would never be so cruel to his kind, but she now knows that her husband is not a wolf. He is a strong man who is ready to kill if it’s

He heard another sound and this one had sounded a lot more different. It sounded like paws,but these were a lot more heavier than the wolves. He stood there frightened not knowing what to do so he did the only thing he thought was wise. He ran like his life depended on it which it did. The sounds that he can hear were the wolves paws and the paws of another animal that he was to scared to even find out what it was. All of the sudden he was trapped between the two large trees that are close together and he was panting from all the running he had done to get away from the animals. All of the sudden,he had felt

Change should be seen as a challenge and embraced with enthusiasm (Marquis & Huston, 2012). In my professional and personal life, I view and respond to change as a way to make improvements to existing regulations and circumstances. I embark upon the quest with determination to succeed at whatever task is presented to me. Life without change can become unchallenging and stagnant (Marquis & Huston, 2012). As society and technology advance, you must incorporate the necessary transformations that arise with it.

Who Moved My Cheese is about how to make changes in your life and work. The story has four characters Hem and Haw, who are human. And Sniff and Scurry, who are mice. They are metaphors for different parts of your life. They all have a task in hand, to find cheese. “Cheese” is a person’s life goals. In the maze, or a person’s environment is where they need to seek cheese.

Additionally, one common aspect about change efforts is that to witness a change is to start acting differently. For instance, changing someone’s situation will change the person’s behaviour, while also influencing the heart and mind of the person. However, the heart and mind often disagree.

Giving him locations, in where food and getting the food for the wolf. Although, the fox does this the wolf, always wants more and does something foolish. In the short story it states "The wolf burst into the kitchen himself, and tore the whole plate down so that it broke in pieces. This made such a great noise that the wife came out, and when she saw the wolf she beat him with a broom, chasing him out into the forest". The wolf's foolish move cost'd him.

The process of change describes how people change. These processes of change are divided into two categories; cognitive and behavioral. Cognitive is the thinking process of change and behavioral is the action process of change. The transtheoretical model suggests that people use different strategies, techniques or different amounts of each at different stages in their change process. Self-efficacy refers to confidence and an individual’s experience with confidence to perform specific behaviors in specific situations. Self-efficacy is a good predictor of behavior change. An individual with higher self-efficacy may be more likely to change a behavior even if the situation doesn’t have any positive reinforcements (Campbell, Eichhorn, Early, Caraccioli, Greely, 2012).

Haw decided now was time to move on and find new cheese and he started getting ready to leave and tried to persuade his friend to go with him. "As Hem saw his friend getting into his running gear, he said, "You're not really going out into the Maze again, are you? Why don't you just wait here with me until they put the Cheese back?" "Because, you just don't get it," Haw said. "I didn't want to see it either, but now I realize they're never going to put yesterday's Cheese back. It's time to find New Cheese." Haw now realizes that changes will take place and he must move with the change and react to it positively.

When changes happen in your life, you can choose to be like Sniff and Scurry, like Hem, or like Haw. Sniff and Scurry kept things simple. They didn’t overanalyze or overcomplicate things. They simply moved on. Hem, he didn’t move on. He stayed in misery and didn’t realize that he needed to change with the change -- move with the cheese. Lastly, theres Haw. He had to learn from his mistakes and laugh at his previously self and move with the cheese. I hope that we can all not make the mistake that Hem and Haw made and learn to deal with change by going with the flow and moving with the cheese!

To begin, the third little pig is extremely clever because he outwits the wolf numerous times. For example, the wolf asks the pig to meet him at various locations to get apples or turnips. Well aware of the wolf’s

Out of the four characters in the book, I think I relate to both Hem and Haw for different reasons. I can relate to Hem because I too have been stuck in once place in my current employment because of my fear of change. I have been in a training position for over four years now and when three different supervision jobs opened up, although I applied for these jobs, I honestly did not want them. I was scared what it would be like to be a supervisor and all of the responsibilities that would come with it. I was scared of the possibility of schedule changes and that I would not be able to cope or handle whatever schedule they tried to throw at me. Although, as a trainer, I do supervise at least once employee and sometimes several, I was scared at failing if I were to try and supervise of more than one employee at once.

According to Kurt Lewin’s change model (1947), there are three aspects of managing organizational change: unfreezing, change intervention and refreezing. By observing the change model, all four characters are seen to go through the freezing stage when they found the first cheese station.

Hemmingway’s story is written in an objective or dramatic point of view. The story is told primarily through dialogue. The narrator has emotionally distanced himself from the characters, and the true feelings and opinions of the characters are revealed in little clues as the story progresses. The narrator acts solely as a reporter of the chain of events