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KatieLouCreate (162 KP) rated Who Moved My Cheese in Books

Mar 5, 2018  
Who Moved My Cheese
Who Moved My Cheese
Dr Spencer Johnson | 2002 | Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences
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1.0 (1 Ratings)
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Can kind of see the message of the book (0 more)
Bad message (2 more)
childish
partonising
Pretentious
Well. Even just thinking about this book again riles me up. I don’t even know why I bought the book. The premise sounded interesting, I guess, and it was cheap. The book only took me around two hours to read so at least I didn’t invest a lot of time and energy into reading it.

On the one hand, I can kind of see what the book is trying to accomplish. It is a message of encouragement and productivity in life. Instead of waiting around for something and complaining about changed circumstance, we should move on and look for something better.

On the other hand, it does it in a terrible way. It feels like an adult message told in a children’s story book fashion. It feels patronising. We have a group of adults talking about how they dislike their life. One of the adults tells the story of the two mice, humans, and block of cheese, and at the end the adults realise, in an expositional way, how the story relates to their lives and how they should change it. It is oversimplified and cringy. If only it was that easy to move on if say you’ve just got fired or accused of something you didn’t do. Life, unfortunately, it not that easy. I don’t know what the author was thinking. (More over, I don’t agree with the message Johnson is giving. To me, it feels like Johnson is explaining why laborers and lower class individuals should just accept and adapt to the whims of capitalism and upper class authorities instead of fighting for what is right. But hey ho.)