Change is the only constant

----Book review of who moved my cheese

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With a happy but complex feeling, I closed the book and drowned myself into deep thought. I have to recognize that it’s lucky for me to read this book, which is just like a mirror of our daily life.

Two lovely mice Sniff, Scurry together with two little people Hem and Haw live in a big maze. They have to find cheese to feed themselves. Just as their names show, Sniff has a great sense of sniff and Scurry is able to run very fast. However, they are mice with simple thoughts. There’s no doubt that two little people are much cleverer than these mice, which are regarded as low-level creature by people. But the ending is

surprising enough: the mice become the lucky dog and firstly adapt the changing situation. While the mice have already found new cheese and tasted the happiness of adventure, our two little people are still discussing the reasons and anglicizing their situation. They are afraid of changing and losing, because their wisdom tells them changing is a dangerous thing. This time,

wisdom is no longer an advantage for them. Apparently, humans’ overly complicated and emotional intelligence sometimes do not advance way. The poorest character is Hem, no one knows his fate in the future, but we can

imagine how hard it will be. Refusing changes bring him nothing but sadness. Haw is much luckier, though his action is not as quick as two mice, he take changes the moment he awake to his fault and learn a lot from the process. There’s no doubt that Haw’s handwriting on the wall is the brightest point in the whole story. These truths encourage us to go out of the dilemma and adjust ourselves to the changing circumstances and enjoy the changes

Obviously, the maze represents our whole life and cheese represent the valuable things that we pursuit. We ourselves are playing the role of mice or little people in our realistic life. May be you’re mice who can take quick actions to change, then

congratulations! But what if you are Hem? I believe no one of us want to be a second Hem without any cheese. So, just try to become Haw, simplify the problems and try new things without worrying.

Surprise is ahead of you, success is just there, waiting for you.

In my opinion, this story is a kind of scathing satire on people who don’t have an ability to adapt new surroundings quickly. In the future, change is the only constant. If you don’t want to be eliminated by the changing time, if you want to keep pace with the changing tide, please keep the alertness and give up conservative ideas. The future is full of changes, since you are already in the maze, how to find your" cheese" is the problem you have to deal with. There’s an old saying in China called security is the biggest enemy. No one can deny that a constant job or

something will kill people’s passion. But it will lead only two kinds of consequences: you make no

progress or your condition becomes much worse. Someone refuse to change because of the fear from the bottom of their heart. If you can’t overcome this psychology barrier, you can’t knock open the door of success. All depends on you, choose to change and have a better life or to be stubborn and lose all the old cheese.

Life is changing. Change is the only constant in the future. All you can do is to try your best to adapt the changing world bravely. God help those who help and change themselves!

第二篇：谁动了我的奶酪,英文读后感

Date: 2010.03.25

The Impressions of Who Moved My Cheese Today I read a famous American writer Herbert Spencer Johnson’s book Who Moved My Cheese, I have some idea about this book.

About the author

Dr. Spencer Johnson is one of the world’s most influential thinkers and beloved authors. He is renowned for his brief,

profound parables that help millions of people manage in changing times and rejuvenate their spirits. The former physician’s books focus on discovering how to enjoy healthier success, with more meaning and less stress, at work and in life. His ten international bestselling books include Who Moved My Cheese? Over 40 million copies of Dr. Johnson’s books are in print in 42 languages. About the preface

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.

About the cheese

“Cheese” being a metaphor for what we want to have in life , whether it is a job a relationship, money, a big house, freedom, healthy, recognition, and so on.

Four characters

Sniff: It sniff out the situation and see the change early. Scurry: It goes into action immediately. Hem: It wants to stay in familiar territory, doesn’t want to deal with the change.

Hew: It knows wrong, laugh itself, change and do better. About the story

One day, they found a room which had a lot of cheese, and they lived happily together. After some years, all the cheese disappeared. Then the mice looked for cheese with their shoes again, and they found another room with cheese soon. Although, men were much clever than mice, they didn’t find and eat cheese soon. They were sad, cried everyday; they still had nothing to eat. Suddenly, Haw knew that if they don’t look for cheese, the cheese will not go to there. So he left the room and to look for new cheese. During the days to find cheese, Haw has many feelings. Words on the wall

1Having Cheese Makes You Happy

2. The More Important Your Cheese Is To You The More You Want To Hold Onto It

3. If You Do Not Change, You Can Become Extinct

4. What would you do if you weren't afraid?

5. Smell Your Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old

6. Movement In A New Direction Helps You Find A New Cheese.

7. When You Move Beyond You Fear, You Feel Free

8. Imagining Myself Enjoying The Cheese, Even Before I Find It, Lead Me To It

9. The quick you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese

10. It Is Safer To Search In The Maze Than Remain In A Cheese less Station

11. Old Beliefs Do Not Lead You To The New Cheese

12. When You See That You Can Find New Cheese, You Change Course

13. Noticing Small Change Early Helps Adapt To Bigger Change That Are To Come

Lessons of Haw

He had stared to change as soon as he learned to laugh at himself and at what he had been doing wrong. He realized the

fast way to change is to your own folly, then you can let go and quickly move on.

You could be more aware of the need to keep things simple, be flexible, and move quickly.

You could notice when the little changes began so that you would be better prepared for the big change that might be coming.

You did not need to over complicate matters or confuse yourself with fearful beliefs.

He knew he needed to adapt faster, for if you do not adapt in time, you might as well not adapt at all.

He had to admit that the biggest inhibitor to change lies within yourself, and that nothing gets better until you change. My feeling

For any one people, living and learning there are too many change, change is everywhere in the event of no time, whether we afraid of change to come. If we are able to adjust it to adapt to change, we can do better. When we are faced with change, we fear, will feel at a loss, which is normal. As long as we can seriously deal with fear of science, it can even help us to avoid the real danger. We do not refuse to change, but we can change the attitude of change and in changing the enjoyment of change, embrace change,

and embrace change.

So we face it variously, and change, and should begin to behave quickly, and I succeed to be adjusting it, adapt oneself to a change, find the track in the living maze and get it during the time of the change immediately!