Who Moved My Cheese? (Life Coaching)

WHO MOVED MY CHEESE
BY
Dr. Spencer Johnson

Reviewed by Niall Nicholson

This book can best be described as a metaphor for life and the way that we all live it. When we are young, we all behave like the mice, Sniff and Scurry. We chase about trying to find our ‘raison d’etre’, our cheese if you will.

And like the mice we are relentless in the pursuit of our ‘cheese’. Maybe this cheese is a material possession, a job or just the love of another being, in any event we desire it immensely. So we scurry about day and night until we find this most cherished of things. Then in time, all of the trappings of society and the bullshit that we feed ourselves causes us to become hemmed in by the imaginary walls that our minds can create regarding our lives and the way that we live them.

Then something comes along to change our basic equation, maybe the job changed, we got old and couldn’t play our favorite game, or a loved one dies, our cheese gets moved or changed. This creates an incredible amount of stress in our everyday lives. Now the modern day human being will fret and complain but usually not adapt to the changing world or marketplace that confronts him. And as he whiles away the time with his head buried in the sand, like Hem, the world begins to change and pass him by.

When Haw finally overcame all of his fears and set out to find his ‘new cheese’ it was a metaphor for transformation itself. The fear of changing has Hem frozen in time, until his unfortunate demise most likely; whereas Haw is taking the courageous steps of setting out on a journey of transformation.

Through this maze of life, adrift in a sea of his own fears, Haw represents all of us as we set out on our journey of transformation. With each step gaining strength, with each step gaining will, with each step gaining the courage to go on.

And as Haw realizes every day, as he continues in his quest, that he is too late for some realizations, and has just missed others, but none-the-less is all the more determined to accomplish his task. Finding the new cheese.

And like all of us, finding a new way of being.


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