Who Moved My Cheese
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
About the Book
This book 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 change while others want things to
never change.
This is a story about change, where “Cheese” is whatever you want at work or in life. And “The
Maze” is where you look at it.
The Characters
The story has four characters who live in a maze: the mice Scurry (scurries into action) and Sniff
(sniffs out change early), and two 'little people', Hem and Haw who represent parts of all of us
regardless of age, gender, race, or nationality – as we all share something in common: a
need to find our way in the Maze – and succeed in changing times.
The Story
Every day, these characters run through a maze sniffing for their own special cheese. The
mice had simple brains but good instincts. They use simple method of trial and error – if one
corridor is empty they run down another. Hem and Haw have complex brains with beliefs and
emotions that made their life in the maze more complicated and challenging. Finding cheese is
very important to the little people, it was a way of getting what they thought they needed that
will make them happy and successful. For some it’s having material things and for some it’s
having a peace of mind. Sometimes they do well but at times their beliefs and emotions take over
and cloud the issue.
They all found a huge source of their favorite food - cheese at the Cheese Station C and
all went very well. Hem and Haw even moved their houses to be near it and it has become
the center of their lives. They became so confident the cheese will always be there they didn’t
notice that it was getting smaller, and were devastated when they arrived at the site one morning
and found the cheese gone.
This is where the story splits in two. Scurry and Sniff quickly
About the Book
This book 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 change while others want things to
never change.
This is a story about change, where “Cheese” is whatever you want at work or in life. And “The
Maze” is where you look at it.
The Characters
The story has four characters who live in a maze: the mice Scurry (scurries into action) and Sniff
(sniffs out change early), and two 'little people', Hem and Haw who represent parts of all of us
regardless of age, gender, race, or nationality – as we all share something in common: a
need to find our way in the Maze – and succeed in changing times.
The Story
Every day, these characters run through a maze sniffing for their own special cheese. The
mice had simple brains but good instincts. They use simple method of trial and error – if one
corridor is empty they run down another. Hem and Haw have complex brains with beliefs and
emotions that made their life in the maze more complicated and challenging. Finding cheese is
very important to the little people, it was a way of getting what they thought they needed that
will make them happy and successful. For some it’s having material things and for some it’s
having a peace of mind. Sometimes they do well but at times their beliefs and emotions take over
and cloud the issue.
They all found a huge source of their favorite food - cheese at the Cheese Station C and
all went very well. Hem and Haw even moved their houses to be near it and it has become
the center of their lives. They became so confident the cheese will always be there they didn’t
notice that it was getting smaller, and were devastated when they arrived at the site one morning
and found the cheese gone.
This is where the story splits in two. Scurry and Sniff quickly