Who Moved My Cheese?

Motivations are powerful means to direct one’s life and to provide a purpose, however these motivations can come at a price to those whom are close them. The authors of each short story support this idea by giving the characters of each story a motivation that inspires them to improve their lives at the cost of the wellbeing of themselves or other individuals. Each character made conscious attempt to obtain what desire most; with a motivation as the primary source that dictates what they do.

“If You Give A Mouse A Cookie,” was written by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond in the year 1985. The book is about a mouse that tells the little boy in the story that he wants milk then a straw, then a cookie, and it continues till the mouse wants the milk again. During the duration of the book the mouse never seems to be fully satisfy and always wanting more or other things to do while telling the boy to get it for him. When I was younger I remember wanting a cookie after reading this story and believed the meaning of the story was to get a cookie and a glass of milk with a straw when you are hungry. As I got older and reread the story all over again I realized I had a different interpretation of the book than I had when I

Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson, tells the story of how our surrounding environment changes, how we need deal with these changes instead of adapting to it, and how to succeed in life. In this story there are four characters: two mice, Sniff and Scurry and two litter people Haw and Hem, all of them looking for cheese in the maze to survive. Every day, they put their jogging suit and their running shoes to find their favorite cheese. The two mice use the try error method, they went to one corridor at the time and if they do not find cheese, they moved to another corrector. However, the two litter people were behaving more as human. They used their logical thinking to find their cheese.

Who Moved My Cheese is a book about the different ways people handle change in their life. The story begins as a group of friends meet after their high school reunion. The group was discussing how so many things have changed since high school, and then one of the young men in the group, began to tell a story about change that everyone could relate to.

An example of this is when in the poem Berton states “Start where you stand and never mind the past, The past won't help you in beginning new,”. Here he is letting readers know that in order to move on from whatever problems you are are facing, to start a new and let go of the past as it is behind you and to not let it trouble you discourage you from moving onward. Later in the poem he says “ The future is your time, and time is fleet, And there is much of work and strain and stress. Forget the buried woes and dead despairs, Here is a brand new trial right at hand.The future is for him who does and dares -Start where you stand.” What he says here is very powerful. He encourages and says the future is yours and that time moves quickly and waits on no one so your time to initiate change is now. He acknowledges that it is not easy, pretty damn hard actually and that you will feel many pains and stresses in your journey. Then and there he says not to mind the mistakes you make along the way and never lose hope. For if you actually work on chasing and challenging your fears, a bright light is shining ahead in your life and you will eventually conquer them. Lastly, he reiterates to not focus on the big picture and jumbling yourself up but to start taking small steps from where you currently are into making progress. The overall mood of

The reading wasn’t hard to understand. One thing that I really liked about the reading was how it would give you examples that would help you comprehend the reading. A clear example in the reading has to be the one about Nick. He upgraded from his old Honda Civic to a Mercedes. He justified his new purchased saying that it was safer and that he deserved it. Going in to read the reading I didn't think that it would be as engrossing, but I was proved wrong. The reading overall is really interesting and greatly detailed. I learned several things dealing with cognitive dissonance. I was staggered by the extent to which we justify our decisions and confront our own mistakes. I don’t really recognize when I justify my decisions, but now that I think

This book made me feel a variety of different emotions. There were many times when I just wanted to weep and scream at my book, but I found ways to compose my emotions and myself. I truly did find this was one of those books that truly made an impact on me and caused me to look over my life and what I had done so far. The big central question, the idea of success measured only your job position, how much

It is about love. Love is friendship, but love is also a broken heart. Love is knowing that even if someone is going to leave you, you love them anyway. True love- even if it’s shorter than what it should be, can last an infinity. Your messages linger in my mind and constantly remind me of how my life should be lived. Hazel and Augustus don’t know how long they have left. We don’t either. This message is dolefully true, yet it’s achingly beautiful in its rawness. Your book encompasses life in only a few pages. Your book exposes us as humans, with our desires to leave marks, but not hurt anyone. It has taught me that you can still march through trials when things are pulling you down and drowning you; that when we are sick, we can still appreciate the world that we live in, and fill our damaged lives with happiness. Thank you for teaching me and giving me a little infinity reading your

My goal will be to agree with the author and to further his points in the essay. I plan to show that with hard work and perseverance you can accomplish a lot. I want to show that while your journey may be difficult and riddled with negativity, there is most always a light at the end of the tunnel.

The article has a symbolic lesson for readers. The story explains the characters who get success by adapting change in their ways. Education helps students develop thought and consciousness. The students must be realistic and practical about their studies. Successful education brings more opportunities in the life of a student. If a student listen to his professor do his homework than there is no chance that he could fail, the class. One must think like the scurry and sniff in the practical life and how they have adapted towards circumstances in the maze. We observe that the two mice find out that their cheese station has gone out. They did not wait like Hem and Haw in the cheese station C. They keep moving on in the maze to find out more

There are a few qualities within the readings that reinstate with me. I am going to start with the one quality that I find the most challenging, expectations or managing energy. I know where my energy derives from, it is from inspiration and meaning. I find this in people, projects, goals and anything that I feel passionate about. Where does it go? That is easy, obsessively into that person, project or goal. My obstacle is managing the energy, as I said, I am obsessive. Somewhere in my head I have unlimited time, several hands and stamina beyond any human. I need to learn to cut myself some slack and not try to do it all. The other problem is that I do not ask for help, I have viewed needing help as being weak and do not like to rely

“Who Moved My Cheese” is a best-selling fictional book written by Dr. Spencer Johnson. The story takes place in Chicago, where several classmates get together for a class reunion. The main characters of the story include Michael, who is the storyteller, Sniff, Scurry, Hem, and Haw. The characters show different qualities throughout the story, both good and bad. The book is basically a story within a story. In the book, Michael narrates a story to his classmates hoping that they will take something from it and put it into practice in their own lives.

“Who Moved My Cheese”, by Spencer Johnson, is a short story that is focused around change and adaptation. Spencer Foster includes four characters, two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two little people named Hem and Haw. Johnson was a physician and psychologist, who wrote books such as “Who Moved My Cheese”, “One-Minute Manager”, and “The Guide To Better Decisions”. “Who moved My Cheese”, was a book on the New York times bestseller, and on the Publishers Weekly. His most popular and renowned book, “Who Moved My Cheese”, is used in many businesses and corporations in training, because of its value as a training device to help those with overcoming change and being able to adapt well to change.

The message of the short story is essentially about evolving to become the person you want to be and finding your identity, nevertheless it is also about appreciating what you have and trying to improve the lives of others.

Who Moved My Cheese is a well-articulated business fable about how to deal with change in organizations, personal life, and in various situations involving changing paradigms. There are four characters identified in the fable and are described in the below figure. It’s important to note that both Sniff and Scurry are mice in the story and Hem and Haw represent two little people.