By Spencer Johnson
This book is a short, must-read book. It is on my yearly list, and I highly recommend it to you. It is a short story of four of four mice: Sniff, Scurry, Hem, and Haw. The four mice live in the maze, and are accustomed to the cheese always given to them. When the cheese is one day is no longer there (cheese being a metaphor for anything in life that one desires), two of the mice go running off looking for more. Two of the mice stay and begin to picket, get mad, and live in shock that someone has taken their cheese. The big lessons, for me, were:
- Expect change because it will happen whether one likes it or asks for it.
- When the “cheese” is moved, you have a decision to make: get mad and let it ruin your day and life, or move on to find more cheese.
- Don’t allow entitlement to dictate your life.