Who moved my mountain?
By Dave
March 6th, 2009 | Leave a comment
The man who asked the question Who Moved My Cheese? has written another book that could be telling of the times: Peaks and Valleys: Making Good And Bad Times Work For You–At Work And In Life.
Author Spencer Johnson follows the story of a dissatisfied young valley dweller who seeks enlightenment, or at least some satisfaction, in the peak above.
He meets an old man who lives on a peak and, as the story goes, it changes his outlook on life, work, etc.
Johnson won millions of fans (and probably annoyed a few cynics) a decade ago with his simple message of learning to roll with life in Who Moved My Cheese?
Peaks and Valleys has been percolating with Johnson for 20 years. It was initially scheduled for release next fall but the recent economic upheavals (see: Valley) put those plans into fast-forward.
“I knew this book would come out when we were in a valley,” he tells the Associated Press. “People pay more attention when they’re in the valley.”
An excerpt
Chapter One: Feeling Low in a Valley
Once there was a bright young man who lived unhappily in a valley, until he went to see an old man who lived on a peak. When he was younger, he had been happy in his valley. He played in its meadows and swam in its river.
The valley was all he had ever known, and he thought he would spend his whole life there.
Some days in his valley were cloudy and some were sunny, but there was a sameness to his daily routine that he found comforting.
However, as he grew older, he began to see what was wrong more often than he noticed what was right. He wondered why he had not noticed before how many things were wrong in the valley.
As time went on, the young man became increasingly unhappy, although he wasn’t sure why.
Read more at Simon & Schuster.
