Smell Change, Find Cheese!
Book Review
Who moved my cheese?
Dr. Spencer johnson
Dr. Spencer Johnson is an international best seller author with education qualification of B.S in psychology, M.D degree from royal college of surgeons. He also served as medical director of communications for Medtronic, the inventor of cardiac peacemakers.
Spencer, who created the story “who moved my cheese” helps to deal with difficult changes in ones life. He explains how to interpret it and apply it in our live in similar situations.
The story runs around four characters: The two are mice, named Sniff and Scurry and the other two are little people who are as small as mice but who look and act like many people in real lif. They are HEM, HAW. All 4 of them are in a maze and looking for their own special cheese.
Spencer takes the four characters as examples how to face a change in given situations either professional or personal. He describes four stages as four paramaters to analyze a situation with the help of his pet characters. As they are different and clearly enable as take final decisions with out much fuss.
Sniff and Scurry are so active in adapting themselves to every change, as the cheese at station “C” is gets over day by day. Sniff smells other station and scurry runs and they find new station “N”. so, they adapt to change and are happy. Unlike the mice, Hem and Haw still remian at the old station “C” though the cheese exhausts. Somehow, Haw realizes and laughs at himself and wonders how foolish he is and tries to persuadesHem to move on to the other station. But Hem says no as he is comfortable at station “C” and afraid of going out of the same station “C”.
Haw accepts the change and triesto adapt to new change and searches for new cheese. Finally, he arrives at station “N” and finds two mice . Hem at the old station falls sick for not having cheese . It takes time to realize for him and finally reaches station “N”.
That’s how Spencers Johnhson makes us understand a concept: The quicker you adapt change, the better the outcome will be.
Phani Kumar, Student, AP College of Journalism
