Analysis of The Main Message in The Story Who Moved My Cheese

“Who Moved My Cheese?” is a business bestseller by Dr. Spencer Johnson published in 1998. The story represents the different circumstances that individuals looked throughout everyday life and the attitudes that they show while they faced those moments. As indicated by the book, these attitudes are the ones that define us and prove our real identity. It doesn’t matter what happens in our lives and what we try to show to other people but how we confronted and defeat difficulties.

The book depends on four characters: 2 mice named “Sniff” and “Scurry”, and the little people, “Hem” and “Haw”. They lived in a maze that symbolizes someone’s environment and they are on the hunting for cheese, which symbolizes somebody’s success and happiness. For the characters, the most significant thing is the cheese and is for what they live for. However, for our situation, we live for success and to accomplish every one of the objectives that we set throughout everyday life. Everyone act is different in order to reach their goals and also overcome challenges in a different way. At last, similar to the characters, when we accomplish what we initially set and want we feel that we are done, that we are finished and that we don’t need to seek more in order to be happy. But, sadly, we connect to things easily and if these things are not there anymore for some reason we are not prepared to those changes. On the other hand, “Sniff” and “Scurry” are not the same as us since they are set up to changes. Their strategy was the experimentation to get what they want, the cheese. Constantly they went to Station C in order to reconsider the spot. They two of them plan their day around the cheese and their daily intake of cheese was adequate, they didn’t eat all the cheese once they saw it. From that point forward, they went one day to the station and understood that there were no cheeses left so they figured out how to locate another one. For this situation, they were set up for this circumstance and change was certifiably not a major problem for them, they simply expect it and search for an answer.

The mice speak to two kinds of individuals. Sniff speaks to the sort of individuals that are set up to changes and doesn’t get stunned when something occurred in their lives. In contrast, Scurry speaks to the general people that dependably have a solution and that doesn’t make a difference in what changes their life, people like these bring the action and solve the problem immediately. These characters are a decent method to figure out how to beat difficulties and changes throughout everyday life.

Furthermore, there are two additional characters that were mentioned previously, which are different from the mice. To start with, Hem, that doesn’t prefer to concede transforms, he is frightened of any change that can happen. Then, there is Haw, that he is able to endure changes. He realizes that changes are not the finish of life and that with patience and effort you can locate another arrangement or approach to progress. These characters are somewhat more human, as I would see it. In spite of the fact that it is perfect to be as the mice are and concede changes quickly, not get connected to things and search for arrangements, it is difficult to do it. But, the four characters caused us to discover that changes are ordinary and that we need to expect and conquer them. If we are afraid of these challenges, probably we will get stocked and can’t accomplish any objective that we set. We ought to escape our usual range of familiarity and act diversely so as to get what we need. Everybody has awful moments, everybody confronted difficulties and everybody is now and then scared of this kind of circumstances. But, if we know how to act at this moment and overcome challenges in a good way we will succeed.

The book ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’, instructed us that we need to know our identity and what we need. On the off chance that you are certain about what you need and what your objective is, everything will be a lot simpler. Your positive vibes and considerations will assist you with visualizing the best things and get your first set as an objective. Likewise, in difficulties, you ought to make certain of your identity and don’t change your personal essence. Changes can assist you with having better things or be a superior individual but you should not change what you need as a result of it. As we learn since we were kids, we gain from our mistakes. It is hard to gain from different missteps or ‘simply learn’ from life. When we committed errors and figure out how to conquer them, we certainly learn and attempt to never repeat that. Changes are fine and normal. We shouldn’t feel awful about them we should be alert, adjust and try to solve them.

Taking everything into account and analyzing the story, I can say that I have more attributes from Hem and Haw. For me, it is difficult to accept changes and comprehend that they are typical and unavoidable. I am always overthinking things, I get stunned by terrible circumstances and I am very frightful of changes. Anyhow, life made to change a little with this when last year my grandfather past away. This is the greatest change I have experience ever, and this time I needed to act a lot like Haw. I needed to endure the change, I needed to defeat it and discover answers to feel good and cheer up my family right then. At the point when days pass, I understood that life proceeds and that I must be strong. The first day I felt that my life halted everlastingly and today I am another individual with another perspective tolerating a few changes. Today, I am acting progressively like mice. In spite of the fact that I am not yet as they seem to be, I am dealing with that to be a superior individual and more joyful with life and with myself. As it was noticed previously, we gain from errors and this circumstance was the best educator for me to make me understood that changes occurred and in the event that we take them positively we can beat them.

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