Thursday, March 8, 2012

Who moved my cheese ?


Do you know this book, "Who moved my cheese ".
This book is one of bestsellers which is very famous popular around the world to let us know how to deal with changes. There is a strong reason why many people love this book. It is because this book describes human behavior against changes very well, and we are strongly reminded of how people react against changes badly, but it also tells us that it is important to recognize changes of situation, react to them well, and take an action for them, otherwise situation goes worse in any case. This book teaches us with a cheese as metaphor which can be what you want, what you improve, what you keep, jobs, or important things.

This is a story about two mice and two small peoples. The story begins inside maze, and firstly they could find a big cheese for them in a cave. They built their houses close to the cave in order to commute to the cave easily every day. They spent their time there with secure mind because they believed that the cheese was theirs forever. As you can easily imagine, amount of the cheese is limited, so it got less gradually day by day. Two mice noticed its fact instinctively, and they got out of the cave to look for a next cheese before the cheese was gone. They could take an action quickly regardless of whether we can find a next one or not immediately, because a mouse typically thinks simply and does not want to consider anything seriously. On the other hand, two small people noticed something was happening to the cheese in mind, but they believed and hoped that nothing changed in mind somewhere by using complex brain, until the cheese was gone actually, even though the cheese was apparently getting less. Even after finding that the cheese was not left any more, they believed that someone just hided the cheese and returned it back finally. One of them could realize that the cheese never come back and they had to get out of the cave to look for new one, and did it finally. However, another small people still continue to think optimistically, stay there, and wait for the cheese coming back. In the story, the former small people could find new one with delightful, although I believe that it is not always so. The later small people behaved like typical human who resists to changes, do nothing for them, and finally blame someone by looking for a scapegoat, or something in wrong circumstance.  

The point is that it is very bad to do nothing even while noticing changes, and it is important that we must not resist to changes, have to accept changes at once, adapt to them positively and take an action finally to get better. This cheese story can be applied to everything of our daily life and help us to understand how to deal with changes. 


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