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Who Moved My Cheese? (1998) (edit title/settings)

An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

by Spencer Johnson (Author) (edit contributors)

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Who Moved My Cheese? is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life - whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money or a possession, health or... read more

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  • - Embrace change.
  • - Change will happen, and you cannot avoid it. If you think you are smart and can avoid it, see the mirror.
  • - Hem and Haw learn the upside of pragmatism. Accept change and move forward.
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  • “Sometimes Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on and so should we.”
    Haw
  • “What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse then the situation that actually exists.”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

  • A Maze: The maze is a place where the little people and mice live. It contains their houses, cheese stations, and empty corridors, just like a real maze.

First Sentence edit see section history

One sunny Sunday in Chicago, several former classmates, who were good friends in school, gathered for lunch, having attended their high school reunion the night before.

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

  • Change: How do we approach change in our lives?
  • Cheese: What you have in life or want to have
  • Running Shoes: represents accepting change - by lacing up their running shoes the other mice can go find new cheese and by happy while the two people sit around waiting for the cheese to reappear.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 120 of 195 in Shelfari Most Popular (June 2010). (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Secret, and followed by The Sea of Monsters.

This is book 158 of 195 in Shelfari Most Popular (June 2011). (authoritative list)

Preceded by Persuasion.

This is book 167 of 195 in Shelfari Most Popular (December 2011). (authoritative list)

Preceded by Confessions of a Shopaholic, and followed by A Midsummer Night's Dream.

This is book 142 of 194 in Shelfari Most Popular (December 2010). (authoritative list)

Preceded by Inkheart.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Spencer Johnson (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0-399-14446-3
Page Count: 96

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More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • Who Moved My Cheese? For Kids
  • Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens

Books Influenced by This Book edit see section history

   
  • Nobody Moved Your Cheese
  • Who Stole My Cheese?!! An A-Mazing Way To Make More Money From The Poor Suckers That You Cheated In Your Work And In Your Life
  • You can move the cheese! : the role of an effective servant-leader
  • Whose Cheese Can I Move
  • Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cutting Edge Way of Surviving Change by Shifting the Blame

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