ADELOLA EDEMA
I read “Who Moved my Cheese” for the first time in April, and I really enjoyed reading it, and I learnt from it. The striking thing for me was how Haw kept writing on the wall at different spots to create landmarks for his friend Hem, to make Hem’s journey simpler than his. Let me give background gist.
Haw and Hem were friends, and they had always gone to one particular place to get their daily cheese. Somehow, they were carried away by the abundance of cheese and never thought that a time could come that the cheese will finish or become stale. Till one day, the cheese finished, and they started wondering “WHO MOVED MY CHEESE?”
After a while of coming everyday hoping that cheese would return to their cheese station and being angry, Haw decided to go and look for cheese somewhere else. He was very hungry, but he knew that staying in that spot would not take away the hunger, but rather would just kill him. Hem on the hand just stayed there, angry and hungry, but refusing change.
As Haw was searching for a new cheese station, he stumbled on some cheese at different spots, ate small and continued his search. At different spots, he would write lessons he had learnt on the wall (I forgot to mention that they were in a maze, so they had walls) hoping that Hem would one day get tired of waiting and come in search of a new station. Although he did not know whether Hem would come, he diligently wrote those lessons, and hoped for his friend.
That lesson I took from the book because it taught about making a decision to TEACH those coming behind us. God told the Israelites to write the laws down, and teach their children from one generation to the next. Paul told Timothy to teach faithful men the things he had been taught, so that they can teach others too. Philippians 2:4 says that we should look out for the interests of others.
Don’t keep that information to yourself; write it as an article, write it as a book, share it as a video, teach others.
When I read the book, I thought of mentorship, but later on I knew it’s more than mentorship, it is sharing what you have learnt; it is raising Landmarks along the route of the knowledge you are gathering. Don’t be selfish, SHARE WHAT YOU KNOW.
ps: the book is basically about having the right response to change.
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