Summary and Headlines of the Book who moved my cheese?

1- Change happens.
2- Anticipate change.
3- Monitor change.
4- Adapt to change quickly.
Change.
5- Enjoy change.
6- Be ready to change quickly again and again.

“If you do not change, you can become extinct.”
Haw imagines himself finding and enjoying the cheese, and this thought gives him inspiration and strength. He knows the Maze means uncertainty – but now he understands this uncertainty is temporary. He’s scared, but writes down another sentence on the wall:

“What would I do if I weren’t afraid?”
Haw thinks about fear. He makes the conclusion that even though fear can paralyze you, it can also prompt you into action. Finally, he decides to start looking for new Cheese, by himself because Hem chooses to stay.

The Maze is confusing. One moment Haw thinks he’s close, the next one he understands it was an illusion. At least he feels he’s taking control, not just being a passive observer.

Running through the corridors, an interesting thought occurs to him: the Cheese didn’t just disappear overnight. The amount of it was getting smaller, and it didn’t taste as good anymore. They just didn’t pay attention.

So he writes another reminder on the wall:

“Smell the Cheese often so you know when it is getting old.”
The dark passages are scary, and it makes Haw want to come back to Section C. If Hem is there, Haw won’t be alone. But he changes his mind – and writes one more thought:

“Movement in a new direction helps you find new Cheese.”
He’s still very scared – actually, scaring himself to death, as his own imagination conjures up images of things that could happen to him in the dangerous Maze. All of a sudden, he realizes these demons are imaginary – and laughs at himself. He starts feeling good:

“When you stop being afraid, you feel good!”
Haw replaces images of danger with images of New Cheese, seeing himself sitting on a pile of Cheddar, Brie, and many other kinds. He sees it in detail until this picture doesn’t seem unrealistic. He writes the following:

“Imagining yourself enjoying your new Cheese leads you to it.”
Then he starts thinking about opportunities the changes present. Maybe instead of what they lost, they can get something that’s even better? Why is change always perceived as something bad? This thought inspires Haw, and he runs faster.

And he does find a Cheese station. The only problem is, someone has already been here, and all that is left are just small pieces of Cheese – delicious, but not many. He understands he lost a chance. Taking some Cheese for Hem, he writes:

“The quicker you let go of old Cheese, the sooner you find new Cheese.”
Haw realizes that his old thinking prevented him from finding new Cheese. He was more concerned with what could go wrong than with what could go right. He didn’t think about New Cheese. He worried about keeping the old Cheese.

But after he sees that going into the Maze again wasn’t as bad – after all, he was able to find enough Cheese to keep him running – he changes his beliefs. He believed that change would harm him. Now he believes it can help him.

And he finds the Cheese! It’s in the Cheese Section N, where Sniff and Scurry are. He tries the new Cheese and takes his shoes off – but doesn’t hide them. Instead, he ties them and hangs them around his neck. Haw reflects on his experience and writes a summary of what he learned: