Who Moved My Cheese?

Title: Who Moved My Cheese?

Author: Dr Spencer Johnson

 My only regret after reading this book was "Why didn't I read it before?".

The story features four characters: two mice (Sniff and Scurry) and two little people (Hem and Haw).The four of them trapped in a maze leave every day to find cheese. The little people use their brains and find the cheese where as the two mice use their sense of smell and find it. Soon the mice realize the cheese was diminishing and they start to find out new cheese. The little people think they have abundant cheese and don't need to worry. One day the cheese vanishes. Hem thinks that the cheese will come back while Haw starts his journey in search of new cheese. The mice (Sniff and Scurry) who accepted the fact that the cheese won't last forever and adapted to the change found out new cheese sooner. Haw learnt a lot of things during his journey finding cheese and wrote it on walls for Hem. Hem who was most resistant to change was the last one to find the cheese.

This is a classic book on motivation. Here cheese is a metaphor about what you want in life. The moral is that we should not think about who moved our cheese instead we should start finding new cheese. The way to succeed in life is adapting to change. 

There are lots of motivational quotes in this book but this is one of my favorite quote which tells us to imagine what would the situation be if we didn't fear it and once we imagine that we should let go our fear and try to achieve that.