This book starts by telling you how amazing this cheese story is and how it changed the lives of many people. How you should repeat this story to everyone so everyone can change their lives, too. It will save your career, marriage and probably life! Then it tells you exactly what YOU will learn from it and what conclusions YOU will come to. This sentence can be found on page 18, way before you even read the actual story - 'However, as you watch what the four characters do, and realize both the mice and the Littlepeople represent parts of ourselves, it would be to our advantage to do the simple things that work when things change'.
You then have a couple of pages where old friends engage in a completely natural conversation with lines such as:
'He asked, "But, have you noticed how we don't want to change when things change?" Carlos said, "I guess we resist changing, because we're afraid of change".'
It also has the audacity to tell you that if people don't find this story life-changing or worthwhile, it's because in most cases, they're the "bad" character from the story - unwilling to change.
'They either knew the lessons and were already living them, or, more commonly, they thought they already knew everything and didn't want to learn' - p.23
'When one of our senior executives who was having a difficult time adapting, said the story was a waste of time, other people kidded him saying they knew which character he was in the story - meaning the one who learned nothing new and did not change' - p. 23
You then have the grand, life-changing story which is clunky, cheesy (pun intended!), simple and obvious. There's not much to say about the lessons this story is trying to convey, because it would take me more time I'm willing to waste on it. It simplifies things and offends the intelligence of anyone reading. Every other page is an image of cheese with some corny, quotable line such as "When you see that you can find and enjoy new cheese, you change course". The story is written in the most patronizing and infantile voice that it almost seems like the author thinks he's speaking to idiots. He probably does think that, because the next chapter consists of the same gathering of friends talking about how wonderful the story is, how it changed businesses, each person talks about how it applies to their life, and what each thing in it meant - from the names of characters to events and absolutely everything in between. Just in case you didn't get it!
Horrible waste of time. I don't remember what was the last time a book offended me this much. But hey, I'm probably just a Hem - unwilling to change and understand the brilliancy of this story. The last quote from this book, probably my favourite, very much explains how I feel about all of it.
'That's what I got out of the story. I tend to take myself too seriously. I noticed how Haw changed when he could finally laugh at himself and at what he was doing. No wonder he was called Haw"
The group groaned at the obvious play on words.'
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