谁动了我的奶酪(完整英文故事)
佩波-武汉招考办
Who Moved My Cheese?
An Amazing
Way to Deal With Change In Your Work & In Your
Life
DR SPENCER JOHNSON
“Cheese” – a
metaphor for what we want to have in life, whether
it is a job, a
relationship, money, a big
house, freedom, health, recognition, spiritual
peace, or even
an activity like jogging or
golf.
Each of us has our own idea of what
Cheese is, and we pursue it because we
believe
it makes us happy. If we get it, we often become
attached to it. And if we lose
it, or it’s
taken away, it can be traumatic.
ONCE, long
ago, there lived 4 little characters who ran
through a maze looking
for cheese to nourish
them & make them happy.
Two were mice named
“Sniff” & “Scurry” and two were little people
named
“Hem” & “Haw”.
Every morning, the
mice & the little people dressed in their running
gear &
headed over to Cheese Station C where
they found their own kind of cheese. It was a
large store of Cheese that Hem & Haw
eventually moved their homes to be closer to it
& built a social life around it.
To make
themselves feel more at home, Hem & Haw decorated
the walls with
sayings. One read:
Having
Cheese Makes You Happy
One morning, Sniff &
Scurry arrived at Cheese Station C & discovered
there was
no cheese.
They weren’t
surprised. Since they had noticed the supply of
cheese had been
getting smaller every day,
they were prepared for the inevitable & knew
instinctively
what to do. They were quickly
off in search of New Cheese.
Later that same
day, Hem & Haw arrived. “What! No Cheese? Who
moved my
Cheese? It’s not fair!”, Hem yelled.
They went home that night hungry & discouraged.
But before they left, Haw wrote on the wall:
The More Important Your Cheese is To
You, The More You Want To Hold Onto
It.
The next day Hem & Haw left their homes, &
returned to Cheese Station C. But
situation
hadn’t changed. Haw asked, “Where are Sniff &
Scurry? Do you think they
know something we
don’t?” Hem scoffed, “What would they know?
They’re just
simple mice. They just respond to
what happens. We’re little people. We’re smarter.”
Haw suggested, “Maybe we should stop analyzing
the situation so much and just
get going &
find some New Cheese.
Haw decided to leave
Cheese Station C while Hem was more comfortable
staying in the cheeseless Station C. Haw
announced, “It’s MAZE time!” and wrote:
If You
Do Not Change,
You Can Become Extinct
Who
Moved My Cheese?
Meanwhile, Sniff & Scurry
went farther into the maze until they found Cheese
Station N. They found what they had been
looking for: a great supply of New Cheese.
It
was the biggest store of cheese the mice had ever
seen.
Haw on the other hand become more
anxious & wondered if he really wanted to
go
out into the Maze. He wrote a saying on the wall
ahead of him & stared at it for
some time:
What Would You Do
If You Weren’t Afraid?
Haw now realized that the change probably
would not have taken him by
surprise if he had
been watching what was happening all along and if
he had
anticipated change. He stopped for a
rest & wrote on the wall of the Maze:
Smell
The Cheese Often
So You Know
When It Is
Getting Old.
Haw wondered if Hem had moved on,
or if he was still paralyzed by his own
fears.
Then, Haw remembered the times when he had felt
his best in the Maze. It was
when he was
moving along. He wrote:
Movement In A
New Direction Helps You Find
New Cheese.
As Haw started running down the dark corridor,
he began to smile. Haw didn’t
realize it yet,
but he was discovering what nourished his soul. He
was letting go &
trusting what lay ahead for
him, even though he did not know exactly what it
was.
To his surprise, Haw started to enjoy
himself more & more. He stopped to write
again
on the wall:
When You Move Beyond Your Fear,
You Feel Free.
Who Moved My Cheese?
To
make things even better, Haw started to paint a
picture in his mind again. He
saw himself in
great realistic detail, sitting in the middle of a
pile of all his favorite
cheeses-from Cheddar
to Brie! He saw himself eating the many cheeses he
liked, &
he enjoyed what he saw.
The more
clearly he saw the image of himself enjoying New
Cheese, the more
real & believable it became.
He wrote:
Imagining Myself
Enjoying New
Cheese,
Even Before I Find It,
Leads Me To
It.
Haw wondered why he had always thought
that a change would lead to
something worse.
Now he realized that change could lead to
something better.
Then he raced through the
Maze with greater strength & agility. Until he
found
bits of New Cheese. He entered the
Cheese Station but it was empty. Someone had
already been there.
He stopped & wrote on
the wall:
The Quicker You
Let Go Of Old
Cheese,
The Sooner
You Find New Cheese.
Haw made his way back to Cheese Station
C to offer Hem bits of New Cheese
but was
turned down. Hem wanted his own Cheese back. Haw
just shook his head in
disappointment but this
does not stop him from finding New Cheese. He
smiled as he
realized:
It Is Safer
To
Search In The Maze
Than Remain
In The
Cheeseless Situation.
Haw realized again, that
what you are afraid of is never as bad as what you
imagine. The fear you let build up in your
mind is worse than the situation that
actually
exists.
He realizes it was natural for change
to continually occur, whether you expect it
or
not. Change could surprise you only if you didn’t
expect it & weren’t looking for it.
When he
realized he had changed his beliefs, he paused to
write on the wall:
Old Beliefs
Do Not Lead
You To
New Cheese.
Who Moved My Cheese?
Haw now realized that his new beliefs were
encouraging him to behave in a new
way. He was
behaving differently from the way he had when he
had kept returning to
the same cheeseless
station.
It all depends on what you choose to
believe. He wrote on the wall:
When You See
That You Can Find And Enjoy New Cheese, You Change
Course.
Haw just hoped he was heading in
the right direction. He thought about the
possibility that Hem would read The
Handwriting On The Wall & find his way.
He
wrote on the wall what he had been thinking about
for some time:
Noticing Small Changes Early
Helps You Adapt To The Bigger Changes That
Are
To Come.
He continued on through the
Maze with greater strength & speed. He proceeded
along a corridor that was new to him, rounded
a corner, & found New Cheese at
Cheese Station
N where he saw the greatest supply of Cheese he
had ever
& Scurry welcomed him.
“Hooray
for Change!”
Haw wrote down a summary of what
he had learned on the largest wall of
Cheese
Station N & smiled as he looked at what he had
learned: