Who Moved My Cheese: a Critical Review of Spencer Johnson's Work

‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ is a realistic fictional, narrating modern day parable, which provides a path to fit with the thorny changes that are ensued throughout our work-life and real-life. This book is a brilliant fund for students, educators and all the enthusiastic workers around the globe. Some of the editing errors and limitations in this edition will likely be improved next to later editions. ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ is an incredible narrative that teaches about the ways to be implemented while working in life and also to live happily. It reveals truth of life. In the book, there are respectively two small men, the mice, where all stories run around small men, cheese, and mice, which are four centre-heads. These characters are proposed to be easy and difficult elements of us, apart from of our maturity, sex, race or ethnic group. This book pursues corporal as well as arousing crossings of four heads – Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw – as they explore, locate, misplace furthermore must revive their beloved foodstuff, cheese, in a huge slanting confusion. I was completely engaged with this book and initiated to be very good and fascinating.

The story inside teaches us more unwanted truths and enhances us to live our own life and never to stay on failure. Spencer Johnson is one of the American physicians, and bestselling global authors whose scripts facilitate many individuals find out effortless beliefs they can operate to live healthier lives with more sensation and less strain. He has written various bestsellers, including this book, ONE MINUTE SERIES, children’s book and the gift favorites. Dr. Johnson was also a medical physician at Communications for Medtronic, the inventors of cardiac pacemakers. His creations have been featured in diverse Medias and are presented in forty-one languages spoken around the world. ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ gives an account on transformation that takes place in a Maze where four amusing heads look for ‘Cheese’, which is a simile for what we want to cover our years with, i.e. profession, relationship status, capital and so on so forth, whereas term ‘Maze’ signifies somewhere we spend the time that we have been searching for. So this book credits for people to improve their line of business, marriages and livelihood.

The assembly of this book pounds well with its association and let somebody have temporarily or permanently itself into study of various time periods in ones’ livelihood. In the beginning, A Gathering, earlier colleagues talk at a get-together struggling to compact with the revolution being experienced in their lives. The next part is The Story of Who Moved My Cheese? which is the hub of order. Within this segment, the two mice do better when they meet with difficult changes as they keep things easy, whereas the two men’s intricate wits and human sentiment obscure things. According to the narration, what the four heads do, and grasp, corresponds to the behaviors of us. And in the third sector, A Discussion, people chat about what The Story destined to them and how they will be applying those methods in maintaining their daily work-life and lifestyle. Occasionally, a book comes along that opens a door to the future.

As soon as I finished reading this, despite the view that it helps only some people according to Simone, I found this book help us deal with persistent changes we bear – from being on altering teams to development of new markets. I can picture myself reading this astonishing content to my children and grandchildren in near future, with a warm lantern glowing, and making them understand and implement the lesson in real life. This book accounts to provide deeper insights into what happens in our lifestyles, in a day-to-day manner. The author brings in an in-depth analysis of various aspects of individual circumstances. Johnson’s tempting images and languages used in the parable gives us a deeply sound and memorable way of managing difficult changes. This book is a wonderful asset to any person or group that applies its lesson. “The more important your cheese is to you, the more you want to hold onto it”, as stated in the narrative, by Spencer Johnson, the author, is the most fascinating line that describes the whole summary of the book. I loved the manner in which author uses metaphor of ‘Cheese’, to define the thing that we all human beings want to have in our life, which we should not stick into every time, every moment. If we stick in such things, our life becomes a maze, where the individual will be lost throughout, and the life may extinct only into hunting of ‘Cheese’, and for having it only as our enthusiasm, we must have to amend of being stuck into it.

I found this book profound and interesting and would rate it four stars because there are some English errors and lower printing quality. I found this hardback fit to all ages to study. This book teaches to anticipate the changes, adapt to change rapidly, and enjoy any kind of change that we have throughout our living. This book also teaches the readers to be standing by to change swiftly, and habitually. This book consists only ninety-five pages, which is less time consuming than of any other books. I also hope that each time you re-read, you will find something more or less interesting and useful in the concise narrative, as I do, and that it will help you pact with alteration and fetch you victory, whatever you come to a decision that achievement is for you, yourself.

Bibliography

1. Simone, A.J., Success Classics, Good Reads, Rochester, New York, S., M. (2019) 'Ken Blanchard “Who Moved my Cheese”'. Ivy Panda, 20 September. (Accessed: 8 December 2019), < https://ivypanda.com/essays/ken-blanchard-who-moved-my-cheese/#ivy-csf-section> Spencer, J 1998, Who Moved My Cheese, Vermilion, London