【正文】 t laugh and he didn39。t so ridiculous, it would be even funnier. Haw did not like the idea of having to run through the maze again, because he knew he would get lost and have no idea where he would find any Cheese. But he had to laugh at his folly when he saw what his fear was doing to him. He asked Hem, Where did we put our running shoes? It took a long time to find them because they had put everything away when they found their Cheese at Cheese Station C, thinking they wouldn39。t cause this problem, Hem said. Somebody else did this and we should get something out of it. Haw suggested, Maybe we should stop analyzing the situation so much and just get going and find some New Cheese. Oh no, Hem argued. I39。t right. It was not the way things were supposed to be. Hem and Haw went home that night hungry and discouraged. But before they left, Haw wrote on the wall: The More Important Your Cheese Is To youThe More You Want To Hold On To It. The next day Hem and Haw left their homes, and returned to Cheese Station C again, where they still expected, somehow, to find their Cheese. The situation hadn39。t long before they each established their own routine. Sniff and Scurry continued to wake early every day and race through the maze, always following the same route. When they arrived at their destination, the mice took off their running shoes, tied them together and hung them around their necksso they could get to them quickly whenever they needed them again. Then they enjoyed the cheese. In the beginning Hem and Haw also raced toward Cheese Station C every morning to enjoy the tasty new morsels that awaited them. But after a while, a different routine set in for the littlepeople. Hem and Haw awoke each day a little later, dressed a little slower, and walked to Cheese Station C. After all, they knew where the Cheese was now and how to get there. They had no idea where the Cheese came from, or who put it there. They just assumed it would be there. As soon as Hem and Haw arrived at Cheese Station C each morning, they settled in and made themselves at home. They hung up their jogging suits, put away their running shoes and put on their slippers. They were being very fortable now that they had found the Cheese. This is great, Hem said. There39。s plex brains and human emotions plicate things. It is not that mice are smarter. We all know people are more intelligent than mice. However, as you watch what the four characters do, and realize both the mice and the littlepeople represent parts of ourselvesthe simple and the plexyou can see it would be to our advantage to do the simple things that work when things change. In the third section, A Discussion, people discuss what The Story meant to them and how they are going to use it in their work and in their lives. Some readers of this book39。23 / 24An AMazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your LifeWho MovedMyCheese?Spencer Johnson, .Foreword by Kenneth Blanchard, .CoAuthors of The One Minute ManagerThe World39。s early manuscript preferred to stop at the end of The Story, without reading further, and interpret its meaning for themselves. Others enjoyed reading A Discussion that follows because it stimulated their thinking about how they might apply what they39。s enough Cheese here to last us forever. The littlepeople felt happy and successful, and thought they were now secure. It wasn39。t changed。m going to get to the bottom of this. While Hem and Haw were still trying to decide what to do, Sniff and Scurry were already well on their way. They went farther into the maze, up and down corridors, looking for cheese in every Cheese Station they could find. They didn39。t be needing them anymore. As Hem saw his friend getting into his running gear, he said, You39。t respond. Haw picked up a small, sharp rock and wrote a serious thought on the wall for Hem to think about. As was his custom, Haw even drew a picture of cheese around it, hoping it would help Hem to smile, lighten up, and go after the New Cheese. But Hem didn39。s MAZE time! Hem didn39。t get better. If this wasn39。re entitled to our Cheese. Why? Haw asked. Because, we didn39。t believe it. How could this have happened? No one had warned them. It wasn39。t take long. And so he began:The Story of Who Moved My Cheese? ONCE, long ago in a land far away, there lived four little characters who ran through a maze looking for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Two were mice named Sniff and Scurry and two were littlepeoplebeings who were as small as mice but who looked and acted a lot like people today. Their names were Hem and Haw. Due to their small size, it would be easy not to notice what the four of them were doing. But if you looked closely enough, you could discover the most amazing things! Every day the mice and the littlepeople spent time in the maze looking for their own special cheese. The mice, Sniff and Scurry, possessing only simple rodent brains, but good instincts, searched for the hard nibbling cheese they liked, as mice often do. The two littlepeople, Hem and Haw, used their brains, filled with many beliefs and emotions, to search for a very different kind of Cheesewith a capital C which they believed would make them feel happy and successful. As different as the mice and littlepeople were, they shared something in mon: Every morning, they each put on their jogging suits and running shoes, left their little homes, and raced out into the maze looking for their favorite cheese. The maze was a labyrinth of corridors and chambers, some containing delicious cheese. But there were also dark corners and blind alleys leading nowhere. It was an easy place for anyone to get lost. However, for those who found their way, the maze held secrets that let them enjoy a better life. The mice, Sniff and Scurry