Who Moved My Cheese

Abstract

History is replicated with so many changes that it is totally impossible to accounts for all of them. Change in life is a fluid variable, particularly in human existence. Humans are social being, which means that interactions among themselves vary and predictability is highly improbable because of the unlikely choices that can be taken and oftentimes many of these are irrational. This irrationality is another justification of the combinations in decisions and why peoples’ behaviour is always changing. An author opined that only thing in life that remains constant, change. Some people are thrilled by risk taking (I will refer to them as the change agents) and others are constricted by fear of the unknown. The change agents want to grasp on to new and different opportunities that present themselves, while non-change agents are the total opposite in their approach. Historically, a significant number of innovators refused to accept the reality of their circumstances; took the risks, embarked on the journey to make changes and were successful in their respective pursuits. The non-risk takers failed to see, accept or recognized the possibilities embedded in the unknown and failed so they were dormant. The result of their inactions is the continuity of the old order, no changes and fear overrides risk taking. The risk takers, on the other hand, blatantly refuse to let fear cripple them and embark on an exploration, which oftentimes result in change. This is a review of a book on ‘change’, the characters are fictitious, language is simple and the author takes the reader on a journey with them showing the difficulty involved in change and how risk takers change the landscape of their present realities. The book “Who Moved My Cheese” sought to educate readers of indecisiveness, fear of risk taking and how different personality types operate in decision making. The author of the book Dr. Spencer Johnson explain in simplistic way how one should and can dissect a most complex situation in an easy and exciting way, and how personality type influences the decision making process. “Who Moved My Cheese” outlined how four characters displayed different attitudes to changes, how people respond to changing situations. My examination of the material will be based on 1) how the text is written including word length of paragraphs, sentence structure and picturographs, and 2) the essence of the material pertaining to the characters, message and contribution of the work.