Dr. Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese? is considered a guide on how to face change. The best-seller tells the story of two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two little people, Hem and Haw, and how they each responded to running out of cheese. Cheese was portrayed as something they all highly desired and loved. The two mice were able to follow the right path to change, and were successful at finding new cheese. The two little people, on the other hand, resisted change and were left with no cheese. Haw later realized that he needed to face change, instead of avoiding it. Spencer used Haw’s journey to finding new cheese as a layout on how to accept change. Therefore, Who Moved My Cheese? can be applied to real life situations, like the change
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Countries like Germany and Australia resemble the mice, because they took action toward gun control. Because of two mass shootings that took place in 2002 and 2009 that killed a total of 31 people, Germany enforced stricter gun laws than they already had in place, decreasing their gun deaths from 1061 in 2002 to 106 in 2012. The Australian government also took action toward gun control, by enacting a legislation called the “National Firearms Agreement” after a man killed 35 people in 1996. The Australian gun homicide rate fell by 59%. They were able to find “new cheese” by changing policies in the face of gun violence. Both Germany and Australia resemble Sniff rather than Scurry, because they sniffed out the change and took action to fix their problem. Therefore, they were abled to decrease the number of deaths caused by gun violence, while in the U.S., the statistics of the U.S. gun violence concludes the opposite. However, it is never too late for the U.S. to recognize this massive increase in gun violence and to do something about it. There are many people across the States who support gun control, and with their guidance, the U.S. can be like Haw. Those who support gun control and want to make a change can get involved in their community and speak to their lawmakers. Putting people who want to make a change in office can also help tremendously. By always …show more content…
guides ones way into change, some of the steps Johnson describes are not relevant to every situation in life. “Finding new cheese” could be changing your job, school, moving to a new city, or making changes to your company. However, the concept of looking for new “cheese” does not relate to some bigger issues outside of your own life, like gun control. One of the steps to change is described as “adapting to change quickly.” This is not relevant to this situation, because it is impossible to change laws in a country in days, so you aren’t able to react to anything quickly. Sometimes change is not easy to adapt to, because it’s not as simple as going to a new maze and finding new cheese. Another step mentioned in Who Moved My Cheese? is to enjoy change. When it comes to a change that involves more people (as in a big country like the United States) it’s not easy to control how people feel. Some may find change to be a bad thing and dislike it, while others love it. For example, those who are against gun laws and believe in their right to bear arms would not support gun control, and would be against the government making any changes at all. Also, because three countries are being compared here, instead of four different individuals, any step toward change can be
Countries like Germany and Australia resemble the mice, because they took action toward gun control. Because of two mass shootings that took place in 2002 and 2009 that killed a total of 31 people, Germany enforced stricter gun laws than they already had in place, decreasing their gun deaths from 1061 in 2002 to 106 in 2012. The Australian government also took action toward gun control, by enacting a legislation called the “National Firearms Agreement” after a man killed 35 people in 1996. The Australian gun homicide rate fell by 59%. They were able to find “new cheese” by changing policies in the face of gun violence. Both Germany and Australia resemble Sniff rather than Scurry, because they sniffed out the change and took action to fix their problem. Therefore, they were abled to decrease the number of deaths caused by gun violence, while in the U.S., the statistics of the U.S. gun violence concludes the opposite. However, it is never too late for the U.S. to recognize this massive increase in gun violence and to do something about it. There are many people across the States who support gun control, and with their guidance, the U.S. can be like Haw. Those who support gun control and want to make a change can get involved in their community and speak to their lawmakers. Putting people who want to make a change in office can also help tremendously. By always …show more content…
guides ones way into change, some of the steps Johnson describes are not relevant to every situation in life. “Finding new cheese” could be changing your job, school, moving to a new city, or making changes to your company. However, the concept of looking for new “cheese” does not relate to some bigger issues outside of your own life, like gun control. One of the steps to change is described as “adapting to change quickly.” This is not relevant to this situation, because it is impossible to change laws in a country in days, so you aren’t able to react to anything quickly. Sometimes change is not easy to adapt to, because it’s not as simple as going to a new maze and finding new cheese. Another step mentioned in Who Moved My Cheese? is to enjoy change. When it comes to a change that involves more people (as in a big country like the United States) it’s not easy to control how people feel. Some may find change to be a bad thing and dislike it, while others love it. For example, those who are against gun laws and believe in their right to bear arms would not support gun control, and would be against the government making any changes at all. Also, because three countries are being compared here, instead of four different individuals, any step toward change can be