Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The most difficult things in the world must be done while they are still easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they can achieve that greatness.

The Art of War is an enduring classic that holds a special place in the culture and history of East Asia. An ancient Chinese text on the philosophy and politics of warfare and military strategy, the treatise was written in 6th century B.C. by a warrior-philosopher now famous all over the world as Sun Tzu. Sun Tzu's teachings remain as relevant to leaders and strategists today as they were to rulers and military generals in ancient times. Divided into thirteen chapters and written succinctly, The Art of War is a must-read for anybody who works in a competitive environment.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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"There's not a dated maxim or vague prescription in it." — Newsweek Regarded as the world's oldest military treatise, this compact volume has instructed officers and tacticians for more than 2,000 years. From its origins in China, The Art of War traveled the world to inform the strategies of Napoleon and World War II generals. More recently, it has taken on a new life as a guide to competing successfully in business, law, and sports. All of The Art of War's concepts retain their value to modern readers, from the prudence of circumventing a strong opponent and taking advantage of a weak one to the wisdom of preparedness and flexibility. Other topics include strategy, tactics, maneuvering, communications, the treatment of soldiers, and the worth of well-trained officers. History enthusiasts, business thought leaders, and anyone intrigued by competition and rivalry will appreciate this elegant edition of the classic work.

Sun Tzu (孫子; pinyin: Sūnzǐ) is a honorific title bestowed upon Sūn Wu (孫武 c. 544-496 BC), the author of The Art of War (孫子兵法), an immensely influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy. Sun Tzu believed in the use of the military sciences to effect outcomes that would result in peace.In the author's name, Sūn Wu, the character wu, meaning "military", is the same as the character in wu shu, or martial art. Sun Wu also has a courtesy name, Chang Qing (Cháng Qīng).

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Small but consistent actions can lead to accomplishing what we desire. This amazing  book by Darren Hardy teaches us the power of continuous improvement, how to install good habits and remove bad ones , importance of our choices and so on

The Compound Effect

No matter what you learn, what strategy or tactic you employ, success comes as the result of the Compound Effect.

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The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices. Small, but smart choices or steps which we carry consistently over time can bring a huge difference.Small, smart choices + Consistency + Time = Radical Difference

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Choices are what makes or destroy the people. It can be our best friend or can be our worst enemy. Choices can bring us near to our goals or they can send us very far. In a nutshell, first, we make a choice and then choice makes us.

Choices

We all are lucky. We are constantly having lucky things happen to us, whether we recognize it or not. According to the author, when luck came his way, he took advantage of it.

Getting Lucky

Preparation (personal growth) + Attitude (belief/mindset)  + Opportunity (a good thing coming your way) + Action (doing something about it)  = Luck

Formula for getting lucky 

Pick an area of your life where you want to be most successful. What do you want? More money? Great body? Better relationship?? Picture where you are in that area. Now, keep track of every action that relates to the area of your life where you want to improve. If you have decided you want to get out of debt, track every penny that you spend, if you want to lose weight, keep track of everything you eat. Carry a small notebook and a pen. Write everything. No excuses. no exceptions

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The earlier you start making small changes, the more powerfully the Compound Effect works in your favor.The key is to start now. Every great act, every fantastic adventure, starts with a small step.

Time is of the Essence

This book taught me how my trivial actions over time can change my life. So after reading this book, I ponder over every action I take. I understood my actions today are seeds which will turn into a tree in a long run. This book made me cautious 

No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is based on the principle that decisions shape your destiny. Little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. Darren Hardy, publisher of Success Magazine, presents The Compound Effect, a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire. If you’re serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of The Compound Effect to create the success you want.

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, based on the principle that little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire. If you're serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of The Compound Effect to create the success you want. You will find strategies including: <ul><li>How to win--every time! The No. 1 strategy to achieve any goal and triumph over any competitor, even if they're smarter, more talented or more experienced.</li><li>Eradicating your bad habits (some you might be unaware of!) that are derailing your progress.</li><li>The real, lasting keys to motivation--how to get yourself to do things you don't feel like doing.</li><li>Capturing the elusive, awesome force of momentum. Catch this, and you'll be unstoppable.</li><li>The acceleration secrets of superachievers. Do they have an unfair advantage? Yes they do, and now you can too! </li></ul>

Darren Hardy is an American author, keynote speaker, advisor, and former publisher of SUCCESS magazine. Hardy is a New York Times best-selling author, who wrote The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster, Living Your Best Year Ever and The Compound Effect. 

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Any time you fail at something, whether it’s a long-term goal or a small project, the first thing you should do is take a step back and detach from the situation. Work backward by tracing the thinking and beliefs you had at the time the mistake was made, and look to see where you made a misstep. Ask why you made the decisions you did and what you can do differently next time.Once you have worked out the reasons behind a failure, you can put together a plan of action to move forward positively and get the results you want while avoiding making the same mistakes again

Why can failing be a good thing?

1. Be transparent about your own mistakes.2. Remember that change won’t happen overnight.3. Consider corporate training and learning opportunities.4. Encourage creativity, and support your employees when things go wrong.

There are several ways to do this.

Failure is a part of life, regardless of who you are. In the workplace and in our personal lives, we all suffer momentary setbacks and defeats.

As a leader, it’s up to you to create a culture that accepts failure and encourages employees to embrace and learn from it.

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Why Everyone Must Learn To Deal With Failure In The Workplace

Focus on one truly important goal<ol><li>what is the one thing that will have the most impact on your job/life?</li><li>what are the small steps to help you attain this goal?</li><li>debrief regularly your progress: what worked? What didn’t? What do I need to change?</li></ol>

Just Do It

Progress is achieved by steady action. Find your pace, avoid burn out and keep momentum.Value each pocket of time. Make the most of 15 min windows here and there to tackle smaller tasks and free up mental space for more complex and time consuming tasks.

Find Your Pace And Leverage Small Windows Of Time Effectively 

<ul><li>Do a brain dump of all the uncompleted tasks that distract you from your main objective. Tick those distractions from your to do list.</li><li>Spend time with those that inspire and energize you. Each day debrief how the people you spent your time with made you feel (energized, productive). Adjust your schedule accordingly if possible. Try to spend at least an hour per week with those that truly inspire you.</li></ul>

Eliminate Distractions

Track your productivity and the things that obstacle it. Remind yourself why you do what you do writing “So that” sentences.

Remember Why You Do What You Do

Listen carefully for feedback, seek mentor/mentee relationships to gather feedback on a frequent basis.Keep practicing to get better.

Seek Feedback 

Your ambitions will never be out of reach when you keep your focus on them and surround yourself with people who inspire you. 

A forefront productivity expert argues that longer working hours do not compensate for flawed approaches to performance, outlining strategic techniques for establishing positive habits, mindset-based strategies and proactive processes for enabling more effective working hours.

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Imagine if your best just got better every single day In Your Best Just Got Better, productivity expert Jason Womack teaches readers that working longer hours doesn't make up for a flawed approach to productivity and performance. Workers need to clarify their habits, build mindset-based strategies, and be proactive. Womack's signature "workplace performance" techniques offer specific strategies to consistently and incrementally improve performance. Readers will: <ul> <li>Understand the fundamentals of workflow and the principles of human performance</li> <li>Arm themselves with the tools and the processes to get more of their work done, on time, with fewer resources, and with less stress</li> </ul> Making your best better won't happen overnight, but learning how to effectively manage just a few critical success factors lead to an effective workday and an overall successful professional career.

Jason W. Womack is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Jason W. Womack has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Jason W. Womack's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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“Multitasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously.” — Jeremy ClarksonYou may think you can do everything right now, but you can’t — and you shouldn’t. This goes against what so many of us have learned and, in many cases, fine-tuned over decades. We’re used to juggling five balls at once and repeatedly switching between tasks.We’re lying to ourselves if we think we’re effective.

Multitasking is Making you Dumb.

Many studies have shed light on the downside of multitasking — trying to juggle multiple tasks at one time. One often cited study from Stanford University found that people who multitask are more easily distracted, less productive, score lower on tests for recalling information, and make more errors.Our brains are not wired to multitask well… When people think they’re multitasking, they’re just switching from one task to another very rapidly. And every time they do, there’s a cognitive cost in doing so.”

Our brains weren’t built to multitask.

A better alternative is monotasking. Monotasking, also known as single-tasking, is the practice of dedicating yourself to a given task and minimizing potential interruptions until the job is completed or a significant period has elapsed. So how do you monotask? Try the nine tips below.

Monotasking

Time spent being physically active away from your screen improves your performance when you return. It can boost energy levels, reduce stress and give your mind the perspective it needs to problem solve and join the dots in your thinking.

1. Give your brain a break.

While you may think a quick glance at your phone in the morning won’t cause any harm, it can be a major drain on your productivity. Checking your phone as soon as you wake up will put you into a reactive state of mind. Give yourself time to properly wake up. Wait at least an hour before checking your phone.

2. Don’t start your morning by looking at your phone

Make a list of tasks that you need to complete and list them in the priority that they need to be done. This way, each of your tasks will get your full focus, and you’ll make sure that the most crucial ones are completed. If you don’t get through everything on your list, move those items to the next day.

3. Create a list of daily priorities


Do your best to eliminate distractions throughout the day. Turn off your email, text messages, and social media notifications while you are completing tasks. If your problem is at work, consider booking time on your calendar for focused work so that coworkers won’t interrupt

4. Reduce or eliminate outside distractions


Set a specific time each day to check email, social media, and text messages. This can be your lunch break or a set period of time before you leave the office.

5. Set a time for distractions


Sometimes you may find yourself multitasking because you took on a task you don’t really have time for. Don’t be afraid to say no when asked to complete additional tasks. Be aware of how much is on your plate and how long it will take to complete. If you can’t fit any more in your day, simply decline. There’s no need to provide a long explanation; keep it short and simple.

6. Be prepared to say no


Messes can be distracting. Organize your desk so that you can tackle one thing at a time. You also might want to consider removing distracting knickknacks that can pull your attention away from the task at hand.

7. Keep work areas clean and organized


You should schedule work that is challenging and requires a lot of focus for the time of day when your attention and drive are at their peak. For example, if you are a morning person, tackle these projects first thing after you get to work. If you attempt to complete these tasks when you are physically or mentally fatigued, your mind will be more likely to wander.

8. Be sure to unitask during your prime time


The first step in breaking a habit is being aware of it. If you find yourself constantly multitasking, choose a day to log everything you do so that you can identify patterns that lead to your distractions and be mindful of them in the future. Pls Follow me and have a great week:))

9. Be aware of your multitasking habits


Not only are we bad at doing many things at once, but it can actually be harmful to try.

You may think you can do everything right now, but you can’t — and you shouldn’t. This goes against what so many of us have learned and, in many cases, fine-tuned over decades. We’re used to juggling…

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Too needy – or afraid to commit? Your attachment style is shaped by your upbringing, but you can alter it.

How to be more secure in your relationships..

The child psychologist John Bowlby, who argued for our deep-seated desire for affection early in life, founded attachment science in the 1950s.

1.Your attachment style has its roots in your childhood.

Early life experiences with your caregivers affect your expectations of what to expect from relationships throughout your life, both consciously and unconsciously.

2.Your attachment style plays out in your adult relationships.

This will assist you in comprehending why you behave in certain ways in relationships.

3.Identify your current attachment style.

A secure attachment style exists, as well as three insecure attachment styles: anxious, avoidant, and disorganised. The common thread between them all is that you often expect to get treated based on how you got treated.

4.Understand the four attachment styles.

You're more prone to repeat the same behaviours and conflicts if you and your relationship partner don't understand each other's attachment patterns.

5.Examine the attachment styles of those you love.

There are ways to start changing your attachment style intentionally, not just in romantic relationships, but also with friends, family, and coworkers, if you want to. Part of this entails recognising patterns in your behaviour and practising alternate responses.

6.Work towards changing your attachment style.

You can now take a breath, and try to prevent an angry, defensive response that you might have reached for in the past...

Too clingy – or too scared to commit? Your attachment style is rooted in your childhood, but you can change it

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(1) Task Breakdown. Are most people aware that the knowledge work skills above even exist — let alone breaking them down into their individual micro-tasks?(2) Measurement how long each task takes. Do most people track their time? If so, are they tracking their micro-tasks?(3) Experiment to find the one best way. Are people simply using good-enough rules of thumb or are they using the scientific method to find the optimal approach?(4) Train for standardization. Once the optimal approach has been figured out, are most people being trained in them?

The 50x Productivity Framework (PART 1)

(5) Productivity doesn’t make us a machine. One of the main reasons science has progressed so far is tools that help us get finer grain, objective perspectives on reality than our senses can. I now understand how timing myself and building a granular, objective map of my thought/action process can augment my humanness rather than stunting it. (6) Small productivity gains aren’t frivolous. Amazing productivity gains come from small hacks, which individually seem frivolous, but together add up to mind-boggling change.

The 50x Productivity Framework (PART 2)

Just like the microscope unveiled entire universes of organisms (viruses, germs) and matter (quarks, atoms), finer attention to detail opens a whole new world of productivity. (7) Knowledge work productivity can be 50x’d. Knowledge work is still in its infancy. This means that the potential gains we can have with the existing tools may be much larger than anyone thinks. (8) Productivity is essential to non-productivity. The more efficient we are at work individually and collectively, the more time we have to carve out for slow, deep living not based on optimization.

The 50x Productivity Framework (PART 3)

(9) It’s worth each of us individually spending hundreds (if not thousands) of hours improving our productivity. “We realized that the true problem, the true difficulty, and where the greatest potential is — is building the machine that makes the machine. In other words, it’s building the factory. I’m really thinking of the factory like a product.” Elsewhere,

If you want to be more productive, you need to build your knowledge factory first.

Peter Drucker, one of the most respected management thinkers in history, stated these words at the close of the 20th century. Drucker isn’t just talking about 50x productivity for the smartest…

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Digital decluttering has become as essential as brushing your teeth twice a day. Especially now, when the knowledge industry has mass moved to online and remote work. Our mental wellbeing and productivity can suffer great consequences unless we learn to keep our online spaces tidy and organized. Fragmented attention span, exhaustion, overwhelm and irritability are just some of the symptoms of a messy digital space.In this article, we’ll take a look at the risks digital clutter brings with it, and how to start cleaning out your digital workspace.

A Digital Declutter

In short, to declutter your digital space means to clear out your computer, phone, or tablet (or all three) of all the apps and files you’re no longer using.It means learning to accept that a lot of your programs, apps, and extensions are optional, while only a handful have an actual purpose, both in your work and personal life. But I can already hear you wonder: “Do I even need a digital declutter?” Maybe you’re managing just fine because you know exactly where everything is.

What is Decluttering

But, what about all those files you’ve forgotten about, that are collecting dust in your disk space? Just because you don’t use them doesn’t mean they’re harmless. Digital clutter can actually have adverse psychological effects on knowledge workers. In this day and age, we’re encouraged to gather vast amounts of information and store them for future use, potential career opportunities, learning materials, etc.Additionally, there is another type of digital clutter masking as a beneficial thing every knowledge worker should possess.

Adverse Psychological Effects 

While we know that overexposure to social media and digital content overall can be damaging to our personal lives, we often overlook its impact on careers. Knowledge workers rely on digital spaces for growth, staying updated, and connecting. We’ve perpetuated the idea that being online is the only way to never miss a career opportunity. That includes countless social media accounts — LinkedIn, Twitter, Medium, Quora, Facebook, Instagram — be present everywhere!Cal Newport, author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work, who’s become a household name by now, proved that this is simply not true....

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A thorough step-by-step guide covering everything you need to know about digital decluttering, and how to easily apply it in your life.

How to declutter your digital space – Clockify Blog

I was extra pleased to have swerved the modern curse that is Wordle when I read that ‘sensitive’ words have been removed from it. A spokesman proclaimed: ‘In an effort to make the puzzle more accessible, we are reviewing the solutions and removing obscure or potentially insensitive words over time. HARRY is an example of an obscure word.’ Other more obviously ‘insensitive’ words had already been removed, such as ‘sluts,’ ‘bitch’ and ‘whore’, and though I’m the most rad of femmes, I do wish they’d stayed. Removing ribaldry makes the language increasingly bland.

Wordle: Sensitive Words

‘Sensitivity’ is one of those words that’s changed its meaning. It was once used mostly to refer to sore teeth and gums. But just as ‘community’ now means people complaining and ‘activist’ now means sitting at home swearing on the internet, to be sensitive simply signifies you’re politically progressive.In 2015, in this magazine, I invented the term cry-bully to describe a new type: ‘A hideous hybrid of victim and victor, weeper and walloper.’ Cry-bullies are everywhere, the duplicitous Pushmi-Pullyus of the personal and the political. And for a cry-bully, almost everything’s too insensitive.

Sensitivity

They’re ‘empaths’, they say, deeply disturbed by anything unpleasant.If it was just Gen Z being soppy, you could slightly excuse it. But when middle-aged men and women who you respected for their apparent insouciance claim to be ‘empaths’, it’s hard not to despair. Witness John Lydon saying that punk was about ‘empathy’. Really? From where I was standing – right at the front of the crowd at the Screen on the Green – it was about anger and spite. But no doubt I got the wrong end of the stick.

Empaths

The Sex Pistols took issue with everyone, from girls who had abortions (‘Bodies’) to the Queen (not a human being, apparently). If this is empathy, then surely it’s only a matter of time before the surviving members of the Clash pop up and tell us that the line from their song ‘Hate and War’ – ‘I hate Englishmen, they’re just as bad as wops!’ – was a profoundly empathetic cry for international brotherhood.

International Brotherhood

I know that narcissists are public enemy number one these days, but if I had to live in a world solely composed of narcissists or empaths, I’d choose the former for the simple reason that it would be more fun. Under the influence of the sensitivity police, Coronation Street, once a haven of wisecracking broads and brawling sex-bombs, has become one long therapy session wherein the formerly feisty female characters inhabit ceaseless hamster wheels of being ‘in bits’, ‘destroyed’ and ‘broken’.

Coronation Street

I know that we’ve come out of a two-year pandemic with untold economic woes just around the corner, but it surely can’t be only me who wakes up each morning excited about facing yet another day in this beautiful world? And even if a lot of us are mis, shouldn’t entertainment elevate rather than lower our mood?If television is getting you down, why not escape into a good book? Better make it an old one though. Ever since publishers started to employ sensitivity readers, modern books have been free from old-fashioned escapist fun.

Escapist fun

As Zoe Dubno has written in The Spectator: ‘For critics, these individuals [sensitivity readers] are the latest stage of the culture wars: woke-ifying new books before readers even have the chance to read them. For publishers they offer a seductively cheap way of reducing the risk of a book or its author being cancelled and the ensuing reputational and profit damage to the firm… Often it seems less like a check on upsetting and harmful language than a safeguard against white, middle-class authors and publishers needing to change their social circles, ideologies or publishing staff in any way.’

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Young Adult novels are especially sensitive to sensitivity; my 2004 teenage novel Sugar Rush probably wouldn’t be allowed today, as one of the young lesbians would need to be trans and I wouldn’t, as a white woman, be allowed to write a mixed-race heroine. (Oddly, the demographic which is most ‘sensitive’ about fictional violence is the same one which favours as a leisure pursuit what I call ‘Netflix and kill’: the true-crime genre – deaths of real people rendered down into entertainment.)

Sensitive to Sensitivity

Where once we could laugh at the overly sensitive for being wimps, now the wimps have got together and agreed they they’re simply special, some higher order of being, able to look down on the plebs who can take the hard knocks life routinely hands out and prance merrily on, without recourse to the law or the shrink. ‘Highly Sensitive People’ (HSPs) are the latest belles of the Mental Elf Ball, with Nicole Kidman, Alanis Morissette and Kanye West claiming membership. That last one should be a dead giveaway. I wouldn’t want to be part of any club Kanye West belonged to.

Highly Sensitive People

The elevation of sensitivity over all other human emotions makes for a bland culture; spite is the Tabasco in the Bloody Mary of life, and it often does the recipient good. Once we were allowed to be cruel to be kind if the situation called for it: yes, your bum does look big in that; no, you shouldn’t waste your time trying to be a writer.

A Bland Culture

Now, if we are not kind to an extreme degree, we will be demonised. I understand that some people are tender, but that doesn’t mean the tough should have to mute themselves. The next time a joke offends, maybe try replying in kind rather than violently? Quipping well is the best revenge. <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-cult-of-sensitivity">The Spectator - written by Julie Burchill</a>

Quipping Well

I was extra pleased to have swerved the modern curse that is Wordle when I read that ‘sensitive’ words have been removed from it. A spokesman proclaimed: ‘In an effort to make the puzzle more accessible, we are reviewing the solutions and removing obscure or potentially insensitive words over time. ...

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The best laid schemeso' mice and menoften go astray

Who Moved My Cheese 

Who moved my cheese is an amusing and enlightening story of 4 characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life - good job, money, health, a loving relationship etc. And the maze is where you look for what you want - an organisation you work in, or the family or community you live in.

What Is The Book About? 

There are 4 protagonists in this story with their respective characteristics that resemble the simple and the complex behaviours that are a part of all of us :-1. Sniff - Predicts change early 2. Scurry - Hurries into action 3. Hem - Denies and resists change as he fears it will lead to something worse4. Haw - Learns to adapt in time when he sees changing can lead to something better

Know The Characters 

In the story, Sniff and Scurry are mice and Hem and Haw are little people. Sniff and Scurry have simple behaviours and Hem and Haw resemble complex human behaviours. All four of them start their journey in a maze looking for cheese and stumble upon a cheese section which is filled with cheese for a repeated amount of days. This repetition leads to Hem and Haw getting comfortable with the idea that the cheese will always be there. When one day this cheese vanishes, Scurry and Sniff immediately go around looking for new cheese but Hem and Haw resist.

Story Summary 

Hem acts adament and rejects the idea of looking for new cheese by making excuses birthed by fear. Haw on the other hand decides to overcome his fear by asking "what would you do if you were not afraid?" and goes back into the maze to look for new cheese after a while. Sniff and Scurry by this time have discovered the new cheese section already. Haw on his journey writes down helpful tips for Hem in order to persuade him to move ahead from his situation when he realizes he can only pave a way for Hem but not force him to walk it. After hardships, Haw finally reaches his cheese and is content.

Story Summary Continuation 

1. Change Happens - Circumstances keep moving the cheese with time2. Anticipate Change - Get ready for the cheese to move 3. Monitor Change - Smell the cheese often and know when it is getting old 4. Adapt to change - let go of old cheese sooner to enjoy new cheese 5. Change - move with the cheese 6. Enjoy change - savour the adventure and learn to laugh on yourself 7.Be ready to change quickly and enjoy it again and again - as the circumstances will keep on moving your cheese

Key Learnings 

Dr. Spencer Johnson is a B.A in psychology from the university of Southern California. He has an M.D degree from the Royal College of Surgeons and medical clerkship at Harvard Medical School and The Mayo Clinic. He is an international bestselling author with books like one minute series and the perennial favourite The Precious Present. His books have been featured often in media including CNN, The Today Show, Time Magazine, USA Today and Wall Street Journal and are available in 41 languages worldwide. He died in July 2017 leaving a legacy of helpful stories behind.

About The Author 

This story is short and simple and uses extremely direct metaphors to explain it's learnings. The story can be interpreted in many ways according to the reader's perspective. It teaches us how we can embrace change and learn to adapt ourselves with it; a skill that I believe is extremely crucial in this new ever changing world. Also, this book can be completed in less than an hour and is bound to leave you with a lighter heart and fiery motivation to go out and get your cheese.

Why Is It Worth Reading? (My Opinion) 

This book teaches you the importance of embracing change and adapting to it. 

THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH OVER 28 MILLION COPIES IN PRINT! A timeless business classic, Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple parable to reveal profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life. It would be all so easy if you had a map to the Maze. If the same old routines worked. If they'd just stop moving "The Cheese." But things keep changing... Most people are fearful of change, both personal and professional, because they don't have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or by the individual, Dr. Spencer Johnson, the coauthor of the multimillion bestseller The One Minute Manager, uses a deceptively simple story to show that when it comes to living in a rapidly changing world, what matters most is your attitude. Exploring a simple way to take the fear and anxiety out of managing the future, Who Moved My Cheese? can help you discover how to anticipate, acknowledge, and accept change in order to have a positive impact on your job, your relationships, and every aspect of your life.

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THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH OVER 28 MILLION COPIES IN PRINT! A timeless business classic, Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple parable to reveal profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life. It would be all so easy if you had a map to the Maze. If the same old routines worked. If they'd just stop moving "The Cheese." But things keep changing... Most people are fearful of change, both personal and professional, because they don't have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or by the individual, Dr. Spencer Johnson, the coauthor of the multimillion bestseller The One Minute Manager, uses a deceptively simple story to show that when it comes to living in a rapidly changing world, what matters most is your attitude. Exploring a simple way to take the fear and anxiety out of managing the future, Who Moved My Cheese? can help you discover how to anticipate, acknowledge, and accept change in order to have a positive impact on your job, your relationships, and every aspect of your life.

Spencer Johnson, M.D. left behind a medical career to write short books about life. The most famous was “Who Moved My Cheese?" published in 1998. The book became a publishing phenomenon and a workplace manual. Over 50 million copies of Spencer Johnson’s books are in use worldwide in 47 languages.Dr. Johnson's education included a psychology degree from the University of Southern California, a M.D. from the Royal College of Surgeons and medical clerkships at Harvard Medical School and the Mayo Clinic.

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