I'm giving it 2 stars simply because it's mildly amusing. Makes interesting points but these are not things that any grown person hasn't already figured out. I think this would be better suited for a high school student for the purpose of preparing to go out into the real world some day. It could give them a little forward look and maybe it would even help them realize that every little thing is not the end of the world. Tomorrow will come. Remember whenyou were 14 or 15. Everything was the fucking end of it all. Beyond that, the book is completely useless.

Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson

Allegorically, Who Moved My Cheese? features four characters: two mice, "Sniff" and "Scurry," and two Littlepeople, human metaphor, "Hem" and "Haw." (The names of the Littlepeople are taken from the phrase "hem and haw," a term for indecisiveness.)

They live in a maze, a representation of one's environment, and look for cheese, representative of happiness and success.

Initially without cheese, each group, the mice and humans, paired off and traveled the lengthy corridors searching for cheese. One day both groups happen upon a cheese-filled corridor at "Cheese Station C." Content with their find, the humans establish routines around their daily intake of cheese, slowly becoming arrogant in the process.

One day Sniff and Scurry arrive at "Cheese Station C" to find no cheese left, but they are not surprised.

Noticing the cheese supply dwindling, they have mentally prepared beforehand for the arduous but inevitable task of finding more cheese. Leaving "Cheese Station C" behind, they begin their hunt for new cheese together.

Later that day, Hem and Haw arrive at Cheese Station C only to find the same thing, no cheese. Angered and annoyed, Hem demands, "Who moved my cheese?" The humans have counted on the cheese supply to be constant, and so are unprepared for this eventuality. After deciding that the cheese is indeed gone they get angry at the unfairness of the situation. Haw suggests a search for new cheese, but Hem is dead-set in his disappointment and dismisses the proposal. ...

تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز پانزدهم ماه فوریه سال 2010میلادی

عنوان: چه کسی پنیر مرا جابجا کرد؛ نویسنده: اسپنسر جانسون؛ مترجم: شمسی بهبهانی؛ تهران، نشر اختران؛

بسیاری این کتاب را با عنوانهای گوناگون ترجمه کرده اند

موشها «اسنیف» و «اسکوری»؛ و آدم کوچولوها «هم» و «ها»؛ این چهار شخصیت، برای نشان دادن سادگی و پیچیدگی درون آدمها، بدون در نظر گرفتن «سن»، «جنس»، «نژاد»یا «ملیت» هستند؛ همگی گاهی همچو «اسنیف» عمل میکنیم، کسانی که تغییرات را زود بو میکشند؛ یا همچون «اسکوری» به سرعت وارد عمل میشویم؛ گاه همانند «هم» میشویم، که با انکار تغییرات رودرروی آنها میایستیم، چرا که میترسیم به سمت چیزی بدتر کشیده شویم؛ یا همچون «ها»، که یاد میگیرد وقتی شرایط او را به سمت چیزی بهتر راهنمایی میکند، خود را با آن هماهنگ کند

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 29/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 27/06/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

أول مرة قرأت فيها هذه القصة الممتعة كانت قبل حوالي خمس سنوات!
استمتعت بها حينها كما استمتعت بها الآن.
هي بلا شك قصة معبرة وذات معنى رائع ورسالة مهمة.
الحياة تتغير باستمرار. يجب أن نتغير معها :)





هناك أمر رائع آخر،
أن القصة قصيرة جداً :)
بمعنى أنها ستُعجب الذين يحبونها والذين يكرهونها على حد سواء!!

أنصح بها.

After his adventure in the maze, Haw wrote a bestselling book about his cheese sayings and sold it in exchange for royalties in cheese. Now he gets all types of cheese simply sitting on his bottom in one corner of the maze while the others run around looking for cheese after reading his book.

...Reading this book is like sitting through one of those stupid motivational speeches. It was obviously written as such, and then a loose "story" was thrown over top of the content to make it into a book. I mean, there are points, where you can actually visualize a person showing the power point slides with one of the sayings in the book written on it, trying to pump up the crowd by saying it with force, and the crowd clapping...

The book took me about 45 minutes to read, but it felt much longer (much like motivational speeches!). The book can be summed up as follows:

Change happens. It's better to move on when it does than expect things to go back to how they were, and it's better to prepare for change then expect things to stay how they are.

That's it. You don't need to read the book now. I mean, that is the summary of the story. They then threw together a pointless storyline of someone telling a group of old friends this story. Then after the story is over, it has all of the friends talking about how the story impacted them. This part felt like an informercial, and I half expected to see "Dramatization" or something along those lines when it was talking about the "success stories".

I would really hate to work at a company that based their model off of what was said in this book...I can just see it now: All around the office, the little action figures of the characters, the sayings plastered on every wall...It would just make me depressed and angry.

Maybe it's just because I'm like the rats (Scurry and Sniffy) in this book that I thought this book was completely pointless...but even if I were like the Littlepeople (Hem and Haw), I would really hope there was a better way to present this message. Basically the four characters represent the different types of people with respect to change (Scurry runs off and takes immediate action, Sniffy sniffs out change happening and prepares for it in advance, Haw is reluctant to change, but eventually realizes he needs to, and although he's afraid, he ventures out to find his "new cheese", and Hem is the idiot who just sits back waiting for things to go back to how they were.

Anyways, I obviously did not like this book, and I wish I had my 45 minutes back. It was just pointless, longer than it needed, and the message/"plot" was just "cheesy"...

(Ok...bad pun, I know...)

For an inspirational, self-help book, Who Moved My Cheese is an easy, quick read but quite unpleasant too with a very patronizing tone to its narration. I just picked it up out of whim as the Internet is full of positive reviews and praise, so naturally I was curious and also since I had an ebook stashed since forever. But, now after having read this, I am not exactly sure what to make out of it. Well, I am glad I didn't buy and read this and another positive thing was that it was a really short read.

In a single sentence, this book tries to explain the significance of adapting and reacting positively to changes which is in fact quite a decent subject for an inspirational book, but Who Moved My Cheese does absolutely no justice with it. The story was exorbitantly simplistic and entirely obvious and I found myself absolutely not agreeing with a lot in here. I am not going to go into details about characters who are called Sniff and Scurry, Hem and Haw and who actually sniff and scurry, hem and haw.

One thing that I found really irritating was how the author, in his slightly condescending manner, tries to force the readers to believe that all change is good change and the faster you let go of things the sooner you can get back to enjoying life as before. No I surely do not agree with this. There are some things one simply does not get over with. What about fatal health issues, or the loss of a loved one? Yes, one learns to live with it but does not really get over it. Ever. Yes, change is inevitable. Situations change, people change, life happens and hardly anything ever remains the same, but, that still doesn't mean that all change is good, or that people need to be happy about every change that occurs. Everything does not revolve around enjoying every change. Adapting and accepting a situation is one thing, trying to happy about every other situation, fair or not is entirely another.

Sorry this review was more of a rant, and I know I've used too much of the word change, but I was totally disappointed with this so called bestseller and I needed to vent. Thanks for reading.

چه کسی پنیر مرا جا به جا کرد یک کتاب انگیزشی در مورد قدرت تغییره.

با اینکه از کتاب های انگیزشی خوشم نمیاد ولی این کتاب خلاقیت خوبی داشت و لپ مطلب رو خیلی کوتاه و درست بیان می‌کنه.

داستان چندتا دوست که دور هم‌ نشستن و از زندگی حرف میزنند. یکیشون شروع میکنه به تعریف کردن داستان چه کسی پنیر مرا جابجا کرد که توی داستان دوتا موش و دوتا ادم هم قد و اندازه اند که هر کدوم دارای شخصیت مستقلی هستن و در یک هزارتو زندگی می‌کنند. بعد از تعریف کردن داستان این چهار شخصیت رو کنارهم نقد می‌کنند و از تجربه های خودشون میگن.

4.75 ⭐️

GENRE - SELF HELP

This book is a pretty small book on personal development, the point of focus in this book is dealing with change which has been explained by the Author with the help of a story.
Personally I enjoyed the book because I clearly suck at adapting to change and the way this book explains the importance of changing according to situations is very interesting.
The story used by the author in this book to explain his point in this book May at the beginning sound pretty mediocre but when you try to analyse it with regards to your personal life you may find it pretty relatable.

One of the best reads of 2022, I highly recommend people to read this brief parable at least once in their lifetime.

Thank you

من الذي حرك قطعة الجبن الخاصة بي؟ طريقة مدهشة للتعامل مع التغيير في حياتك وفي عملك، هي حكاية رمزية ذات مغزى أخلاقي تكشف أعمق الحقائق حول التغيير. إنها قصة مسلية تنويرية تدور حول أربعة أشخاص يعيشون في متاهة، ويبحثون عن قطع الجبن التي تمدهم بالغذاء وبالسعادة أيضاً.

الكتاب صغير وخفيف وممكن اكماله خلال بضع ساعات, فيه دروس كثيرة سواء في حياتك اليومية او حياتك العملية, الاسلوب الذي استخدمه الكاتب كان جميل نستطيع ان نقول مثل الفيديوهات التوعية التي لا تتعدى بضع دقائق ولكن التأثير تكون كبير جدا.
الكاتب لديه خبرة كثيرة في الطب النفسي وقد حول لنا قصة بيسطة عبارة عن اربع انواع من الشخصيات في الحياة وتكلم بشكل خفيف ولكن عميقة جدا عنهم, وخلال قراءتك لها بتركيز سوف تستفاد منه جدا ويمكن ان تغيير بعض من قراراتك ووجهة نظرك للحياة.
احببت الاسلوب في الكتابة والسرد والمواضيع الذي تحدثوا عنه وكيفية ربط الاحداث بشكل جدا لطيف وسلسل, ومناسب لجميع الاعمار, انصحه للجميع.

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Who Moved My Cheese? An amazing way to deal with the change in your life and your work is a moral tale of moral significance that reveals the deepest facts about change. It's an enlightening entertainment story about four people living in a maze, looking for pieces of cheese that provide them with food and happiness as well.

The book is small and light and can be completed within a few hours, in which many lessons, both in your daily life or your practical life, the style used by the writer was beautiful, we can say like awareness videos that do not exceed a few minutes but the effect is very large.
The writer has a lot of experience in psychiatry and has told us the story of Basita is four kinds of characters in life and spoke in a light but very deep about them, and during your reading with a concentration will be very useful and can change some of your decisions and your view of life.
I like the style of writing, the narration, the topics that they talked about, and how to link events in a very nice and smooth way, suitable for all ages, advising everyone.

“When you stop being afraid, you feel good."

It's about facing change head-on and not allowing fear to hold you back. I'd heard so many excellent things about this book over the years that I wasn't expecting it to be any good. It was, however. The author illustrates with a short story how life can change quickly and how to adjust to those changes. He goes on to explain why it's crucial to anticipate and monitor change in your life.

The author of the story has mentioned that the cheese in the book represents anything a human strives for. It could be money, fame, reputation, happiness, success, achievements, or anything else.

If you have trouble adapting to new situations and fear change you should read it.

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I didn't enjoy reading this book perhaps I was in a bad mood.  It followed four different characters, whom took different paths to reach their goals for living their entire lives. The book is a short story which teaches us  how to accept change and deal with it wisely, and strive to achieve our aspires.


The language is pretty easy and the book is simple and beautifully written.

What a waste of time this book was. It only took about 15-30 minutes to read, but I was begging God to give that time back to me. This book is the perfect example of all that was wrong with U.S. business culture in the late 90s up to the crash of the overinflated tech industry. It was a time when the simplest things were made massively complicated. Every old idea rehashed with buzz words was a "paradigm shift in the new economy." It was a time when any inexperienced college grad with Birkenstocks, a goatee and a laptop could throw "dot com" after "widget" and have billions of dollars thrown at him. My boss at the time required every employee to read it. I am truly shocked that my eyeballs didn't roll across my desk from rolling them them so much reading this self-important junk. It's all common sense, people. Change happens. Does anyone out there NOT know this Jeez!