پنیر تو را من جابجا کردم

by Darrel Bristow-Bovey

The problem with self-help books that litter the shelves of the bookstores and bedside tables of the nation is that they expect you to do all the work. You are required to read them, remember key words, perhaps even put their teachings into practice in everyday life. Not this self-help book. This is the self-help book for people who want to take no steps at all. This is the self-help book for people lying on the sofa. This book will tell you how to reap the rewards of being a better person without having to trouble yourself with the unnecessary burden of actually becoming better. Our pages have been treated with a revolutionary new formula that allows wisdom to pass directly from the page into the atmosphere, where it can be easily inhaled from a reclining position.

Genres: Nonfiction, Humor, Self Help, Psychology, Business

78 pages

First published December 1, 2002

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 2 out of 5]

Misdirection
The opening lines of the introduction are “This is not another self-help book. … Self-help books are damaging to the self-esteem.” The strap-line on the cover says “This is the self-help book for people who want to take no steps at all.” So already I’m confused. Is it just a satire? Is it reverse psychology? Is it a metaphor with a deep meaning of life, something that when we interpret it correctly is going to bring such clarity to our spiritual, emotional or financial wellbeing? Does it have hidden gems of information? So what is the secret, the lesson, the moon shot? Misdirection! Create an illusion that you are more interesting, more capable, highly sought after or wealthier than you actually are. Don’t waste any energy, let the deception rule.

Of course, humour is subjective, but when you are bombarded with sarcastic facetious wit on every page, which runs off on crazy tangents, it is just bewildering and becomes tedious. It seems that the biggest joke, which I have to give Darrel Bristow-Bovey credit for, is on us who have paid for the book in money and/or time. Most likely the title I Moved Your Cheese which is a satirical look at the popular self-help book “Who Moved My Cheese,” draws attention and invites us to give this book a read. There is no connection between the two books other than the name. Darrel reflects on this point in the final pages where readers may be expecting some revelation about cheese but its only purpose was to achieve book sales and get us to the final page. Again, misdirection.

It is absolutely amazing, in a 92-page book to say that about 75% of it was padding. If you enjoy a LOT of tongue-in-cheek, light-hearted dialogue with no purpose, then you may enjoy this. Trying to be too cool and too clever.

[عبدالرحمن عقاب · Rating 2 out of 5]

كتابٌ صغير الحجم يُقرأ في جلسة واحدة؛ مسلٍّ في أسلوبه، تجاريٌ في قصده، وسطحيٌ في طرحه، وطفيليٌ في ‏فكرته (فقد تطفّل على كتاب "من الذي حرّك قطعة الجبنة الخاصة بي؟" الذي بنى عليه كلّ الموضوع ‏فيما كان يبدو نقدًا وانتهى بمجرد فكرة بسيطة واحدة أن تنتقل إلى حالة أن لا متاهة!).‏
ولا شكَ أن أسلوب (قصة الفئران التي في المتاهة) مسلية وجميلة وجاذبة للقاريء، وتجعل من الكتاب نافعًا ‏لجيل الأطفال كمادة تدريبية على التفكير في إدارة الحياة. ‏

[Describiendo Mundos · Rating 3 out of 5]

Una manera muy graciosa de decirnos porque los manuales de autoayuda no sirven. Un libro muy ameno y que te arranca sonrisas por su sarcasmo...y obviamente, como libro de autoayuda es una porquería. Que no lo digo yo, su autor nos hace ver todas las razones por las que no funciona. En fin, divertido, ameno y no sirve para nada jajaja

[Javier Casado · Rating 1 out of 5]

Menuda castaña.
¿Por qué lo empecé, para empezar? Bueno, lo vi por ahí y me hizo gracia el título. Leí la sinopsis, y eso de que fuera una parodia crítica de los libros de autoayuda me hizo pensar que podía dar para un rato entretenido. Su corta extensión terminó de decidirme.
Aun así, al cabo de media hora de lectura, cuando ya llevaba una cuarta parte, decidí abandonarlo. Que hay mucho que leer como para perder el tiempo, aunque sea poco, en estupideces.
Veamos, no creo en los libros de autoayuda, me parecen en general una memez que sólo ayudan al autor y al editor, y en los que una simple idea por todos conocida y que se resumiría en una frase o dos se estira hasta la eternidad para llenar un libro. Así que una crítica mordaz de estos libros me atraía. Pero es que esto ni es crítica, ni es inteligente, ni está bien escrito. Es una basura en toda regla, con un texto sin sentido, sin pies ni cabeza, y sin pizca de gracia. Al menos yo no se la he encontrado. Casi hasta prefiero un libro de autoayuda antes que esta bazofia. Así que a otra cosa.

[Maryam Same · Rating 3 out of 5]

الكتاب يتحدث عن فكره انه بدل ما تتعايش مع الظروف
و تتقبلها تقاومها و تغيرها عشانك كتاب قصير تنهيه في يوم وعجبني

[Wombat · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nonsense and waste of time 👎🏻

[Danyal Effendi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its a very different kind of book, making mockery of self-help books. The level of sarcastic comments is too high and many good examples are given. the main point is that self help books do nothing good to yourself, your life or career. They are just a good read for passing time and helps making "dreams in the cloud" for no good.

[Adwitiya (অদ্বিতীয়া) · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book because of a post on r/books proclaiming it had been the most hilarious and underrated book op had ever read. Ok, great, I was in need of a pick-me-up anyway, and all the heavy books I had been reading did not help. After a bit of confusion due to a book of same title by Deepak Malhotra, I got around to reading it promptly. The writing style is hilarious, no doubt, but it was not for me. I still liked the book since I too have grown very skeptical of the entire self-help industry, and I agreed with the author when he said -

"If you have no wisdom of your own, reading self-help books will not help you. You will have to write them instead."

It was a very easy read though and there were certainly parts where I could not keep myself from laughing our loud. Might be a good read for anyone coming out of a break-up or any sort of heartbreak, for that matter.

An excerpt I loved from the book:

".....no one can be Oprah. Because not even Oprah is Oprah. Oprah the phenomenon is just an idea whose time had come, and Oprah the person was just smart enough and sufficiently inert to let herself inhabit the idea, and to let the idea to take her shape."

[Sunila V. · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first thing that I did after finishing this book(which incidentally took a lot of effort)- was to google Darrel Bovey. For someone who claimed to be like "us", he's quite a handsome man and facing flak for plagiarism. Now, about the book. The book is silly, writing style is rather juvenile, is full of references from other self help books- including, you guessed it - the title. But it drives home a point - in being an anti self help book - where it says, it's okay to suck. Which I totally agree with. The concept is interesting, rather refreshing I would say - if only it was written more - I don't know, intelligently? One thing I'm thankful for is, the book is really short. I certainly could not have endured it if it was any longer than 100 pages, but it's not. Well done. And there are some really good points made - Anything can be faked being the best one. It's a quick read, Read it if you've been reading too many self help books. :P

[Anish Kumar · Rating 1 out of 5]

Investing time and money in this book is utter disgust. You would not be able to resonate with author thought at all. Most of the time he is just blabbering without making much sense. I wish there was some negative ratings which could b casted for books like these. The author ends his book with a sentence 'anything can be faked' and the realization dawns on me. He has faked everything, duped us to purchase this piece of crap. If you are taking this as a sequel to who moved your cheese you guys are so wrong because this book is completely unrelated to that great work. Read only if you want to waste your time. Dont get duped.

[Sheel Mehta · Rating 5 out of 5]

i just love this book!! it is hilarious!! n anyone who says it did not help them is just being idiotic!! it helped me a lot, ( hm.m.m.. atleast i think it did ) (hmm..m. anyone who reads it and doesnot talk in brackets for a long time after that i lying about having read the book!) very well written is truly a book for ppl on the couch!

I AM LAZY, I AM IDLE, I AM DOWNRIGHT INERT, AND I DONT GIVE A DAMN!!!

[Jyotsna · Rating 2 out of 5]

Okay. What did I just read?

Is it self-help?
Yes

Is it satire?
Yes

It is a self-help satire that I did not want to know anything about!

It is funny, I admit. But the satire completely overshadows the self-help part here (and maybe this is why it is a self-help satire) and could reduce the degree of satire instead of overdoing it.

I want to like this book because it lists a few basic rules on how to be successful in the field you want to be; but I do not like it that much because the mockery of actual self-help overshadows the useful tips provided in the book.

1 star for satire and 1 star for self-help. That's it!

[Milena Meja · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nanovo sam čitala "Ko je maznuo moj sir" da bih bila pripremljena na ovu "Ja sam maznuo tvoj sir" i opet sam prvi prvoj.

Vječita borba onih koji čitaju knjige o samopomoći i onih koji se ježe pri toj pomisli, e to su te dvije knjige, dva raskola, jing i jang u današnjoj književnosti.

Sad nakon pročitane i druge, ja sam pristalica knjiga o samopomoći, ipak. Neće nam one pronaći Sveti Gral ili Atlantidu ali će probuditi u nama te tražnje i ponuditi riječi ohrabrenja ns tom putu.

[Vipul · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you have the urge to pickup a self-help book, pick this one. It isn't a self help book and is one all at the same time. If it was any funnier, I would call it a funny book, but it isn't.

[Ayat Alahmed · Rating 2 out of 5]

"انني احمل الكثير من المعاني "
والت وايتمان

[Srividya Venkataraman · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't love the book that much...though, the title reminded me of who moved my cheese.....this book is perhaps is not what I found it to be engaging.

[Alfonso Lopez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dice una verdad incompleta que es muy cierta. Corto y aplicable.

[Sunflower · Rating 2 out of 5]

🌻Review finished and complete🌻
(Pages accorded to the portuguese release)

This is probably going to be the most detailed review in the universe, but this book has so many problems.
I want to say that for starters, I bought the book because a youtuber spoke wonders about it and said it was amazing as a self-help book
And it has written on the cover "self help book"
And I was really looking to read a self-help book.

Page 11
"Self-help books are harmful to self-esteem. They promise to help us, but they actually make fun of us."

guess what, everyone has their methods of getting better, some use pills, others psychologists, other diaries, other books, and none of them are wrong or right, there are things that work for me that may not work for you, that's it, for this is important to try everything to see what best helps you feel good, I tried diary I didn't like it, I tried psychologists I didn't like it, I tried reading, it helped and I liked it, I tried medicines and I didn't dislike them and I still take them, that doesn't mean that psychologists are not good and don't help anyone, it means that FOR ME there are better options that help me better, FOR ME.

page  15 and 16
"This book will tell you what the reward of being a better person is without going to the trouble of actually becoming better"
"Our anthem is: Anything can be faked."

Are you telling people with problems to pretend to everyone that they are fine and better psychologically when in fact they just want to kill themselves?  This encourages not asking for help and not seeking help because it encourages "faking"
He literally ends the book, like the Last sentence is "everything can be faked" I can't put in words how worrying is that and how dangerous is to encourage faking to be fine

Page 17
"Nevertheless, today we are increasingly attacked mercilessly by the formal order to become better, to look better, to tell the truth more often, to drink less, to be little angels."

But if you are bad, you should look for a better life and improve, it's not that "ah society has a formal order to become better", I believe that the people who are going to read this book - like me - are people who are looking for help of any kind, it has written on the cover "A SELF-HELP BOOK", if you seek help, something is not right, and you are very right to improve your life, because if you are bad, if you improve you will get better, this seems like such a simple thing to understand, like you know that your audience that is going to buy the book needs help, and you're saying "everything can be faked", "don't improve your lives" like wtf?

Chapter 3 (pages 37-50)
The whole chapter 3 says how men suffer more than woman, this is why exists a huge thing against male authors I swear to God
It's just him crying in the bathroom how men suffer more than women and are more insecure than women and how difficult is to be a man bro i- 💀
This whole 3 chapter its just gross and stupid and kinda funny how he is crying in the corner cause men suffer so much more than women and how it's more difficult to be a man than women to be womens, I honestly wanted to die reading this chapter
The author of this book it's giving 💫male chauvinist💫
And im not going to talk about the "what are u thinking" part (starts in the page 49), because i would never shut up about how so disgusting and horrible is this part

Page 47
"- Chicken breast?
A happy smile appeared on Chunko's face.  I was frozen, but I couldn't do anything.  Chunko never keep silent.
"No, not at all," he replied, looking at the front of the woman's t-shirt, "I find them very attractive."

Wow how funny he was looking at a woman's breasts without her permission and sexualizing the woman who (context) was just shopping alone and he approached her without permission, touched her without permission again and in turn the woman was nice and talked to him, AND HE SEXUALIZED THE WOMAN LOOKING AT HER BREASTS AND COMMENTING "I FIND THEM VERY ATTRACTIVE"
Harassing women wow how funny please laugh with me haha ​​harassment haha
I'm so disgusted right now by this author who things that this example of verbal harassment is somehow funny

Page 53
"I won't say it again: we eat with forks because we discovered a long time ago that four sharp teeth are a more efficient way to handle food than two pieces of rough wood. I'm not being retrograde when eating with a fork - I'm using technology Modern"

Making fun of Asian culture not one time but 2 times, first he says how bad are typical Asian houses and then this, this is just racism and making fun of the Asian culture
If u don't want to use sticks it's fine, but u are basically saying that they re stupid and shit, it's a symbol of asian culture, shut up
If u don't want to use sticks eating Asian food it's okay but why don't u accept the people that want to use it? And u say that is better to use forks, that's not true or false, it's just a choice and it's not wrong or right to use one or another
I can't with this author anymore, male chauvinist and now racist by basically saying Asian culture is shit?
If u think I'm exaggerating read the whole Part when he talks about it, it starts on page 52 when he talks about Feng shui

Page 63
"The answer is not, as certain cynics and skeptics have already cruelly secretly suggested, to hope to profit, through a cheap ruse, has the popularity of the best-selling self-help book recently.  No way."

Yes u just wanted profit and thats OK, people need to use the cards that they have
But u profit from mentally ill people that just wanted help and a real self help book by saying everywhere that this was a real self help book
It's obvious once u start reading but u already paid it
I really don't care if u take money by deceiving people, but mentally ill people maybe with depression or real fucked up problems that where looking for real help? U could maybe say in the back that it was satire, that is not a real self help book, but people wouldn't buy it

Page 73
"Another piece of advice that upsets and unnerves me, as it is confusing and completely untrue, is this: «Be yourself.>> Have you ever heard anything so terrifying?  Civilization and all standards of human decency are based precisely on not being ourselves."

I'm really tired of this shitty book but telling people to not be themselves? I want to off myself right now it can't be real that a real person thinks this and said this to mentally ill people that want help
I'm really exhausted so I won't explain why this is so stupid and a horrible thing to say

Page 81 and 82
"Without a hint of delicacy, the same that makes men smile politely and avoid eye contact when they see a fat woman in a t-shirt and shorts, the ladies present did not hide their horror."
"There are other people who are worse off than I am, but who wants to talk to fat people?"

Bodyshame and fatshame wow what a surprise this guys behond being racist and stupid also just bullied "fat woman" and "fat people" in general
I'm so tired of this book

Ignoring all the problematic things
The book is funny, but everyone that buys this book for self help is just going to cry
It says on the cover and on the back "A SELF HELP BOOK", this is such a huge joke
I just read it cause i love self help books and a huge youtuber with millions of followers said that was a marvelous book
Of satire, not of self help, but he didn't say this part
And it's not even that funny, like it's 4/10 of funny
It's boring af this is just 90 pages and I kept reading one page and then close the book cause it's so boring it's not even good comedy
This such a male chauvinist book, I just wanted a humorouristic self help book for my depression and mental problems and im here with him telling mentality ill people to fake and don't ask for help, crying how hard it is to be a men, Harassing women and thinking it's funny, racism, etc I REPEAT ONCE AGAIN, IN THE COVER, ON THE BACK, AND EVEN ON THE ALMOST NON EXISTING SPINE IT SAYS "A SELF HELP BOOK". tell me person that still didn't read the book and it's reading this review to know if should read or no the book, this subjects seem like "self help" subjects for a person that's just want help for they're suicidal thoughs? And wanted a self help book and bought it cause it's promoted like a self help book?

Side note think that all the quotes that I wrote were are common sense to every normal person that are disgusting and horrible but I have to justify why cause idk, people that have the same mind that this author can not understand why

One of the funny things (to me), in this version of the book, the portuguese (idk if all the books have this), there is quotes from the text that are in bold and big letters like in a square in the middle of the book or on top in side with the text with the most "funny" quote of that page
And it's always the most unfunny thing I ever read
This guy thinks that he is so funny that he haves to put in big bold text quotes that are supposed to be funny in the middle of the text interrupting your lecture just for you to read again the same unfunny quote but in big bold text (I will put a picture showing it with this review)

I went to goodreads to see what people think and I see that this book it's on the list "greatest satires of all time" and "best humorous books"
And i saw that one book "who moved my cheese?"
And I just put the pieces together
It's says NOWHERE on the book that this is NOT a self help book, the target audience that is going to buy it (LIKE ME) are people that want a REAL self help book IT SAYS EVERYWHERE "A SELF HELP BOOK"
I HONESTLY thought it was a humorouristic self help book, all the self help books are kinda sad with sad suicide storys, I tought this one was just a funny way to help
But no, these are horrible things to say to someone who really needs help because this book is targeting to them
Scamming  mentality ill peoples money to buy your book just because they need help (because it says that is a self help book) you say horrible stuff and tips, and then to discover it's just a huge satire AND IT SAYS NOWHERE ON THE BOOK THAT IS JUST SATIRE
Do better. Don't buy this and give money to this horrible author.

Ps:to be fair he does say on the book that it's satire, 1 (ONE)  time only, on only a little phrase, on the page 61, where u already buyed the book thinking it was serious and u already spend like 1 hour reading thinking it was a real self help book

"Do you see now why it is so difficult to write a book with the intention of satirizing self-help books?  As far as this type of literature is concerned, the line between satire and reality is drawn in water with a broken pencil."

[Mohamed Elmansy · Rating 1 out of 5]

اتفق مع بعض النقاط الموجودة بالكتاب من حيث ان مفهوم التنمية البشرية كعلم لا اعترف به انما هو نوع من التحفيز والتشجيع مثلها مثل الافلام والاغاني الحماسية والتشجيعية
الكتاب يتطرق الى انتقاد علم التنمية البشرية بشكل واسع وانا أرى ان علم التنمية البشرية لا يمكن تكبيقة على امر الواقع من حيث ان كل شخص يختلف بمقوماتة ونمط حياتة وطبيعته الشخصية وظروفة وامكاناته فهل يعقل ان اقول ل 100 متدرب مثلا لكي تنجح اتبع الخطوات التالية
الكتاب يتنقد بشكل واسع الكتاب الاوسع انتشارا (من الذي حرك قطعة الجبن الخاصة بي ) التي كانت تتحدث عن هيم وهاو الفأرين اللذان كان احدهما نمطي بتفكيره لكي يأتي كل يوم ويقول من حرك قطعة الجبن الخاصة بي ولكن هاو كان له رأي أخر حيث اتبع نظام المحاولة والخطأ لكي يبحث عن مصدر جديد للجبن في المتاهه والتأقلم مع المتغيرات
هذا الكتاب يتنقد طريقة تفكير التأقلم مع المتغيرات بل يتطرق الى معرفة فهم سبب المتغيرات ومحاولة تغيير الواقع حيث توجدكلمات في الكتاب استوقفتني جدا (المتاهة في العقل وليست متاهة الجبن) الكتاب ضعيف كسرد وتفنيد رجحت لربما بسبب ان المؤلف (ديباك مالهوتر) استاذا للاقتصاد بجامعة هارفارد يمكن ان يغلب على الكتاب الطابع العملي أكثر من السرد الادبي

[Ahmed Hossam · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is cool, it discuss major problems with the concept of who moved my cheese, indeed it's not against it but it's an upgraded version, the books reminds you that you could be in someone else's maze looping in a maze that shouldn't exist from the beggining

I really recommend it

[Mohamad Eldhemy · Rating 5 out of 5]

رغم أني ممن يكتبون حول تطوير الذات ، و هذا الكتاب يسخر من هؤلاء و من مريديهم إلا أن أفكاره رائعة جدااااا لتطوير الذات ... خمس نجوم :)
انصح بقراءته و يوجد منه نسخة عربية

[Reem M · Rating 1 out of 5]

كتاب ملوش اي لزمة اكثر من نصفه يهاجم الكاتب كتب التنمية البشرية علي انها ليس لها اي اهمية و ان كتابه غير تقليدي اكن واضح انه نسي يكتبه لكن يوجد قصتان رائعة فيه غير كدة تضيع للوقت

[Diyaa · Rating 1 out of 5]

اسوأ ما قد تقرأ عيناك
مضيعه للوقت والمال
للأسف مهزلة

[Alokita · Rating 2 out of 5]

The problem with this book is that there is nothing in it to work with or on it or even anything working in it. It would have worked as a twitter thread, since the kind of sarcastic wisdom without anything actually wise in it is in vogue these days. Even as a Ted talk it would have been bearable, depending on the charisma of speaker. As a book though it is quite frustrating. If not for the short length, I doubt if I would even finish reading this. It's not even worth adding in my reading challenge. I just hope to save myself the future trouble of ever mistakenly picking this book.
The entire essence of this book is: "Everything can be faked." So can writing a good book. So can writing a book that seems to respond to a more popular book, but doesn't actually just to ride on its popularity. This book is supposed to be for the 'smart-lazy' person who is supposedly lazy as a choice and not as a character or psychological trait. Well, that just removes the entire burden of addressing any real issue. Even as a rhetoric on self help books, it doesn't target the right audience but strings together a series of bizarre encounters and parables that are supposed to be full of mystique due to their nonsensical nature. Granted that this is the very strategy that self help books utilise to put their message across, somehow their parody still loses its effect despite the treasure trove of mocking material that self help stuff provides.
The only saving grace of the book is that it does point out the futility of self help books without any internal desire for change. That things that one desires doesn't necessarily require effort to gain it, sometimes luck intervenes in mysterious ways to ease the path of success. And also what you get might not be what you actually wanted in the first place. Everything is a discovery and satisfaction is a bigger achievement than achievements themselves.

[Anthony · Rating 2 out of 5]

A rebuttal to “Who Moved My Cheese” that despite it’s efforts to convince one otherwise, totally misunderstood “Who Moved My Cheese”. The biggest complaint the author has of “who Moved My Cheese” is that it’s incomplete. I may be ignorant, but I feel like it should be obvious that any allegory, or parable is not perfect and all may leave out some points in an effort to express the principle the story is trying to highlight.

In effect, I wonder if the author is aware of the irony that I found his parable lacking in the same way. It’s very clearly incomplete. Not by leaving points out, but literally the story feels incomplete. The author himself admits there is more to tell. It’s also rather disjointed. It tells the story of three mice who cross paths but not always in a complete comprehensive way.

For the short length of the book, I find the incomplete story coupled with the disjointed story telling to be rather unforgivable. His three mice had different ways of “getting out”, but only one way made sense as to how the mouse got out. One way was too ambiguous to take seriously, and the other was so mundane and brutish that the author himself couldn’t muster up more than a few short paragraphs explaining the action the mouse took.

By the author’s admission he wrote one mouse so well because that mouse reflected himself and his thoughts so well. The other two were significantly harder to write because they were paths he was unfamiliar with. I physically rolled my eyes. If you can’t write something well, then don’t put it in your book. If that means you don’t have a book then don’t write the book.

I found the book to be a waste of my time. However, I can admit that maybe I am a victim to the same thing I accused the author. Maybe I just simply misunderstood the whole book. Unfortunately while that may be true, I am not sure I care enough to read the book again, despite it taking only 30 minutes or so to read.

[Pancho Pantera · Rating 1 out of 5]

“Quería terminar el libro con una explicación del título, pero ahora creo que ya no interesa. Ya habéis visto que no hay ningún queso y, de haberlo habido, yo me lo habría comido ya, en vez de llevármelo a algún sitio. Lo del queso no era más que un truco para conseguir que leyeseis el libro hasta el final. Aquí estáis, así que supongo que ha funcionado.”

Este cierre es el resumen perfecto de lo que representa el libro: una trampa. Una ilusión de profundidad que no lleva a ningún lado. Y no porque uno esperara respuestas mágicas o un giro brillante, sino porque ni siquiera hay una mínima claridad en lo que se pretende decir.

El libro empieza con fuerza, eso es cierto. Uno siente que está por leer una crítica aguda al mundo de la autoayuda, algo que exponga sus trucos y superficialidades. Pero pronto se diluye. La voz narrativa no sabe si está contando historias personales, haciendo sátira, o jugando con lo autobiográfico. Y aunque uno no pide que se encasille, sí espera que al menos una de esas formas funcione. Aquí ninguna lo hace.

Es un texto que se contrae sobre sí mismo, que no se atreve a comprometerse con nada. Ni con el título, ni con una idea central, ni con una estructura sólida. Si vas a titular un libro con una metáfora tan fuerte como “el queso”, deberías al menos sostenerla o desarrollarla con algo de coherencia. Pero ni eso.

En el fondo, este libro es un ejemplo claro del clickbait que inunda hoy todos los rincones: prometer algo que luego no se entrega. Y lo más frustrante es que parece saberlo. Se burla de esa expectativa sin ofrecer nada a cambio. El autor dice que no hay queso, y que tampoco lo habrá. Y está bien. Es honesto al menos en eso. Pero sería bueno que también fuera honesto con otra cosa: que incluso en sus propios términos, el libro fracasa. Ni como crítica, ni como historia, ni como reflexión. No hay queso. Pero tampoco hay pan. Ni plato. Solo un envoltorio vacío.

[Maryam · Rating 1 out of 5]

I ended up skipping pages because I hated it. There is nothing inspiring in it. And the writer I think thought that if he wrote as he speaks to a friend that we would love it more and it would be interesting, however, I hated it because I felt as if he was screaming why do you need someone to tell you that it’s normal for change to occur and you have to move on, ARE YOU STUPID!!

Some quotations:

   Life is like a box of chocolates – it is overpriced, will make you sick if you have it too quickly, and if other people see you with it, they will try to take bits of it away from you.

   Do not just say no. Do not just do it. These things require circumspection. Just say: “That’s for me to know and you to find out.” Just say: “Maybe, maybe not.” Just say nothing at all.

“Anything can be faked.”

“Lard is no barrier to success, as long as you can fake it.”

Remember: objectives can be shifted; success can be manufactured. Anything can be faked.

Pretending it is important will make it so. It is not the objective that counts, but your success in finding it.

[Samar Abd ElWadoud · Rating 4 out of 5]

كتاب مكون من 83 صفحة تاليف داريل بريستوفي (وهو كاتب حاصل علي العديد من الجوائز ولد عام 1971 في جنوب افريقيا) https://bristowbovey.com/ ترجمة دار الفاروق
كتاب مميز وبسيط يختلف تماما عن كتب التنمية البشرية المعتادة والتي اتفق مع راي الكاتب في انها غالبا تقدم في ظاهرها وعوداً بالمساعدة ولاكنها لا تفعل ذلك ... يتطرق الكتاب الي بعض النقاط الهامة عن طريق سرد قصص قصيرة والتنويه الي الرسالة المراد ايصالها من خلالها باسلوب بسيط ومشوق.
من المقطتفات التي اعجبتني: "من أكثر الأمور التي تثير القلق لدي الشباب اليوم النصائح غير المنطقية التي يسديها باستمرار اختصاصيون في إسداء النصائح، أو أصدقاء وأقارب مخلصون ولكن مضللون"

[Luke Evans · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was really excited about this book because I thought he had an important view any not accepting change as completely uncontrollable. However, his story/metaphor shows that he simply did not understand the original book. In the original book, cheese was the representation of whatever made you happy. In this book, cheese represents only money. The introduction was nice but the entire metaphor is just a waste of time.

[Kathleen Lancia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved Who moved my Cheese. I did not expect to love this, but it was every bit as interesting, and every bit as fun. Change does not have to be daunting or scary, and it is good for your life to have change occur now and again. A great read, I hope all my friends decide to read this as well. The threat of change does not have to undo your life, so learn to embrace it, and move beyond it...you'll be amazed at what comes up in your life next!