Presented By: Frank Schornagle

Who Moved My Cheese? Background Story Key Points & Criticisms

Spencer Johnson, M.D. Published Who Moved My Cheese? In 1998 NY Times Best Seller Over 26 Million Copies Sold Cowriter of One Minute Manager

Believers:

The best laid schemes O’ mice and men Often go astray -Robert Burns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aamsXQf8QTQ

The Mice Sniff Scurry Sniffs out the cheese Eager for cheese Scurries to the cheese Eager to work

The (Mini)Men Hem Haw Wants his old cheese Controlling Slowly finds out new cheese is better Connects

The Story Cheese The Maze The Running Shoes Haw Wealth, Security, Health The Maze Work, Family, Community The Running Shoes Ability to seek change Haw Dynamic Seek cheese->Find cheese->Run out of cheese->Mice get new cheese, Haw stays with Hem->Haw seeks new cheese

Conclusion Sniff & Scurry Haw Hem Get fat! Excited to find change Excited to move Haw Seeks out change upon reward Empathizes Hem Left behind Threatened by change

Key Points Cheese = Happiness

Key Points Don’t be complacent!

Key Points It’s a part of life! Let go!

Key Points Have an adapting mindset!

Key Points Look into the future!

Key Points Fear is controllable! Enjoy change!

Criticisms Patronizing Parable The Cheese Doesn’t Matter Misuse of the book The Cheese Doesn’t Matter Enjoying the journey There is No Cheese Infinite chain of causes and means Scott Adams “patronizing Parable” top reader concerns Haw enjoys the journey Existential/Buddhism

“Life is no straight and easy corridor along Which we travel free and unhampered, But a maze of passages, Through which we must seek our way, Lost and confused, now and again Checked in a blind alley But always, if we have faith, A door will open for us, Not perhaps one that we ourselves Would ever have thought of, But one that will ultimately Prove good for us.” -A. J. Cronin MOVE WITH THE CHEESE!