Who moved my cheese?

October 18, 2021. No. 39

In life, when we settle in a place or with specific stability, it is very difficult for us to move from there. Is it logical no? Why move, if we have everything we already have with us. Well, you are in error. The moment you lose stability for any reason, if you are not prepared to face the change, your life will fall into an abyss.

The title of this article is the name of a wonderful book, by Spencer Johnson, which was published on September 8, 2009. It barely has 106 pages, but in them, you will see how to face change in both your private and professional life. A motivational book, which will make you learn how to face your life in a different way. A fictional parable, that will make you look a little beyond your nose.

It tells the story of 2 mice and 2 very small people. They lived together in a maze. Every day in the morning the 4 of them went out in search of cheese throughout the maze. The mice, with a small and not so complex brain, and the little people with a complex mind and full of emotions. One day they found a room in the maze with a good amount of cheese. Every day they went to the same room to enjoy the same cheese. Until one day, evidently, the cheese could not last forever and when we got to the room, the cheese was gone. That's when everything changed. Obviously, there was nothing to do there anymore, and the mice quickly understood and began searching for cheese throughout the maze again.

Instead, the little people were perplexed at the post. Waiting for the cheese to show up. So they would return to the same place every day, hoping that the result would be different. Obviously, it was not, in that room there was only emptiness. For days the same result, until one of them got tired and started searching the whole maze again. The other did not want to accompany her and waited day after day. Whoever started the movement, it was not easy to find new cheese. Days passed, and he kept moving through the maze, trying to find cheese again. He was gaining experience and even wrote on the walls of the labyrinth everything related to his new advances. Until one day, he found a room full of cheese, and there were the 2 mice, enjoying it.

This story leads us to an impressive moral. The labyrinth is life itself, through which we go every day. We face in it all the constant changes that living represents. Those who keep moving will achieve a better development in it. Examples to apply it, we have many.

Change partner

Sometimes we cling to relationships that are called toxic. We do not want to leave the relationship, for fear of loneliness. For fear of not finding anyone else and insecurity takes hold of you. That's when you start living in hell, and you cling to something meaningless because you don't want to move from that position, which for better or worse, you already have. If you feel that the relationship does not favor you at all, you can close that door and open another. Let life do the rest, go find another cheese.

Change job

This is one of the best known and difficult to deal with. When you have a previous dismissal you are forced to change jobs. The world is coming your way. You think you will not be able to find another job, you have not made an effort to learn how to live in the jungle. You have forgotten to be competitive and to learn the necessary tools for when this moment arrives. You have simply spent your life in the comfort zone and now a change does not make sense, since you do not know how to deal with it. Friend, move on, spend a little of your time looking at the market, studying your opportunities. You may discover that you are not the navel of the world and that there is so much more cheese out there. Thus, when the time comes, either by dismissal or by choice, you will be completely at ease in that new labyrinth.

Moving to a new city

Perhaps we have all been through this example. In my particular case, I had to face it very early in my life. It only remains to say that the fear of moving to a new home should not prevent you from doing so. Do not fear, think positive. Imagine your new life in another city, with new neighbors, and new friends to discover. Don't freeze, thinking that everything will go wrong. As long as you think positive, everything will be fine. Many even live their entire lives in the same place, fearing change. Don't let that happen to you. It evolves.

Think of the cheese as the goal to be reached and the labyrinth as life itself. Who does not advance and remains stagnant will not see the beauty of life itself. Applying this moral is essential in every moment of our lives. Do not allow fear to take hold of you, to immobilize you. When you understand that the faster you go out to find new cheese, the faster you will succeed, because the maze is long and difficult, but it is certainly not impossible to navigate.

Even in our field, in the crypto world, I am happy to know that many around here, no matter how new or experienced they are, are always trying to learn new methods of generating income. Looking for tokens, trading, even if it is very basic at times, but with a huge desire to learn. No road to success is easy. They will be able to say that I am wrong, that I am having a hard time doing it, but they will never be able to tell me not to try.

I read this book when I was just a 15-year-old teenager. From that moment something changed in my life. I am filled with strength and strategies to trace in my life. Little by little I forged my destiny through constant and hard work. I surround myself with good friends, with whom I had common goals. So advance in my personal growth, despite being in full adolescence. From that moment on, I lost my fear of change, and I always welcomed it if it came at some point. I adapted. Since then, I consider myself someone who adapts quickly to any situation, mixes and manages in a certain way, to succeed in what I propose. You will say: "Ugh, how self-sufficient is Infinity." Ahah, I am not telling you this for that purpose. I say this in a constructive way. I have also been afraid of change, but the difference is that I face it quickly, and with all the enthusiasm in the world.

I have told some of my friends about read.cash, noise.cash and even BitYard. It turns out that they already have their own projects, their own platforms, and they don't want to move towards them, for fear of change, of the unknown. I don't judge them, as this crypto world is complex on its own, but they just don't want to get out of their comfort zone. Some stay their lives regretting a platform in which they lost their income and thus do not advance or evolve towards possible horizons. They spend their entire lives in the same room, waiting for the cheese to magically appear again when we all know that it will never happen.

What will you do? Will you go out and find a new cheese or will you wait?

Is all for today. I hope that what you have just read transmits some teaching and that you gain experiences, surely more than one has had to go through this type of situation.

You can download the book in pdf through this link if you wish. I highly recommend it, you will not regret reading it. It is a reading that will definitely change their lives and the way they see the world.

Thanks for reading me. To my sponsors, thank you as always, for your unconditional support.

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Related to the book "Who moved my cheese" by Spencer Johnson.

The image of the protagonists is taken from this link.

All other designs are made on Canvas.

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