’’Who Moved My Cheese ?’’ or ’’Who Changed My World ?’’ is one of those books that is delightfully short, purposefully simple and has that strange universal appeal. Everyone that reads it is able to “get” what the author is trying to say and is able to identify with the book from a very personal level.
Who moved my cheese is basically a book on how to deal with change and to help people to accept change and even be happy with change knowing that they are not the only people going through change and change is never really a bad thing.
The author hasn’t filled the book with unnecessary examples of specific situations where people found themselves in any particular situation which they didn’t like, but has just named the ideal situation that a person has grown accustomed to and begun to like as the “Cheese” and any change or alteration to this set lifestyle has been brought out as the Cheese being moved.
The author has told the simple story of 2 mice and 2 people, and how each of them go around acting and reacting to the Cheese in their own separate ways, and how its not the ones that sit back and ponder over the situation and over analyze it to death and keep asking “Why My Cheese had to Move?” “What did I do to deserve this?” that land up on top, but the ones who accept the situation and look for a New Cheese are the ones that end up happy.
I was able to appreciate this book from the point of view that last year when I switched jobs, I found myself at a new place of work, new ways and new methods, to begin with I didn’t like it, and wanted to continue working the way I had at my previous job what I knew how to do and what I understood and resisted change. I was pretty unhappy to begin with till I began to accept the new ways of doing things and understand them as well. Had I accepted change to begin with, I would have been happier a lot sooner than it finally did take me.
I’d definitely recommend this book to anyone going through change in life and finding it a bit rough. Even if you are someone who is perfectly happy with your life and have found your Cheese right where you want it, you should still read this book, which will help you to adjust if any change does happy in life, which it always invariably does.
This book takes less than an hour to read and is just Rs 95 (under $2) so is definitely worth buying for yourself or for your friends.