2014 Who Moved My Cheese During everyone’s life, there are changes that are bound to happen. Whether it be starting a new job, moving away, or going to school. Change can be exciting, but it can also be very frightening. The beauty and curse about change, is that you don’t know what is going to happen next. The book Who Moved My Cheese illustrates this concept very well, and I learned many things from this story that I can apply towards myself. I have recently had two new changes in my life
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WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? © Dr. Spencer.Johnson PARTS OF ALL OF US The Simple and The Complex The four imaginary characters depicted in this story -the mice: "Sniff" and "Scurry", and the little people: "Hem" and "Haw" -are intended to represent the simple and the complex parts of ourselves, regardless of our age, gender, race, or nationality. Sometimes we may act like Sniff Who sniffs out change early, or Scurry Who scurries into action, or Hem Who denies and resists change as he fears it will lead
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thoroughly enjoyed reading “Who Moved My Cheese?” book by Spencer Johnson. Johnson does an excellent job of simplifying the complexities of the change process through the use of four fictional characters. I believe the author intentionally chose to use two mice and two “little people” in the parable about change. The mice, Sniff and Scurry, deal with change rather simplistically. Being animals, the mice are more adaptable to change and react to the loss of the “cheese” instinctively. They “keep their
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characters in Who Moved My Cheese? two of which are mice, Sniff and Scurry and two are little people, Hem and Haw. The two groups are in a maze and go searching for cheese one day and eventually come upon Cheese Station C. Hem and Haw become wasteful and arrogant and slowly deplete the abundant supply of cheese they once had. Sniff and Scurry predicted that this would happen and have mentally prepared themselves to search for more cheese. Meanwhile, Hem and Haw have become dependent on the cheese and
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Who Moved My Cheese? 1. Provide a thorough description of the four (4) characters, including their characteristics and attributes? Which characters display positive attributes? There are four imaginary characters depicted in the story: two mice, named “Sniff” and Scurry,” and the littlepeople, named “Hem” and “Haw.” They, as the book states, “are intended to represent the simple and the complex parts of ourselves, regardless of our age, gender, race, or nationality.” The two mice, Sniff and
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After a deep discussion with my group members regarding the story, we would like to recommend that Hem and Haw should identify their own ability and work smart to solve the problems that occur. For example, when Hem and Haw found the cheese Station C, they could have save some cheese for their future. From our real life we can say that, we should save some portion from our salary for future use. Secondly, Hem and Haw should have identified the changes in the cheese quantity and left behind. When
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My cheese…while it may, evolve my cheese is making a comfortable living to afford an adventurous life for my child and myself. I have found that my happy is experiencing life through the eyes of my child. I have learned about myself that I no longer worry so much about the things that I want and instead worry about the things that my child wants. To achieve this I have taken jobs that may not be the greatest in the beginning but that will lead to positions that will be on the career path that I
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There was a book lying on my shelf from a long time now and that was “Who moved my Cheese” by Spencer Johnson. I always heard that it’s a great book. Today, I got up in the morning and held this book in my hand to complete it. It took me only 2 hrs to complete this 100pages book and I must confess that it’s a very good book. It’s a small story that will make you think about your present situation. This is the story of 2 mice – Sniff & Scurry and 2 persons – Hem& Haw, who are as tiny as mice and
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Who Moved My Cheese Analysis * In your opinion, what does the maze represent? What does cheese represent? The maze represents the path we take in the real world. The maze represents one’s environment. The cheese represents one’s happiness and success; rather that is money or family, whatever someone’s individual happiness and success is. * What types of reactions to change did you observe in the four main characters? Sniff and Scurry, the two mice, were able to mentally prepare for
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Book Summary Who Moved my Cheese? There are four characters in this story; Snif and scurry, and Ham and Haw, who we might recognise as ourselves when dealing with changes. Their actions reflect how we might have reacted when faced with the similar situation. Sniff and Scurry are two little mice with simple mind and thinking process. Their mission to “FIND’ cheese. Hem and Haw are little people with complicated mind and thinking process. Their mission also to 'FIND' a cheese. The mice and
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