Spencer Johnson Books

Imagine that life is a maze filled with passages, dead ends, surprising turns, and open corridors. Some corners reward you with cheese—your successes and satisfactions—and others leave you wondering why the path has gone cold. That’s where my story begins. I use this maze to represent the structures...

From Who Moved My Cheese

Sniff and Scurry live by their noses and feet. They explore the maze daily, never assuming that cheese will last forever. They keep their running shoes tied, ready for movement. Hem and Haw, on the other hand, are guided by beliefs and emotions. When they finally discover Cheese Station C, they don’...

From Who Moved My Cheese

I remember picturing Hem at the opening of this story: still trapped where we left him, surrounded by empty corridors and fading memories of abundance. He waits for the old cheese to return, clinging to the belief that it surely must. He convinces himself that staying put is safer than venturing out...

From Out of the Maze: An A-Mazing Way to Get Unstuck

Then, one day, Hem meets Hope. She’s a bright, curious thinker—another little person who has learned to move freely through the maze because she no longer fears that it must stay the same. Hope introduces an idea that at first seems outrageous to Hem: that beliefs can change. She tells him that just...

From Out of the Maze: An A-Mazing Way to Get Unstuck