..Rêve Sans Frayeur..
"it is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
- Albus Dumbledore
1. 50 Management Ideas You Need to Know
2. Sing You Home
3. Only 13
4. Personal Finance
1. Southeast Asia: An Introductory History
2. Clean
3. The God Delusion
4. Hedgehogging
1. To become an outstanding consultant
2. To speak basic Korean
3. To grow Audible Hearts
4. To improve my Malay
5. To publish a scientific paper
6. To create a junior squash ranking system for Singapore
7. Get my Kayaking 3-Star
8. To take more salsa lessons
9. To climb Mt Kinabalu
10. To find true love
The picture that made the world weep. 1994 Pulitzer Prize - Kevin Carter
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast. It is not proud, it is not rude. It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered. It keep no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves.
Friday, December 17, 2010
"it's a great realization that if I died tomorrow, it wouldn't make a scrap of difference to the world"
As I move towards graduation in 5 months, I realize that I don't really have any practical skills to speak of. A liberal arts education is great for the person. It frees you from the circumstantial bias of your birth and makes your mind a better place in which you can spend your leisure hours. It makes you re-examine your life and forces you to think hard about why you lead the life that you do. However, on a wholly practical level, it is completely useless. I can't save lives or build a new bridge across the straits. I don't have any accounting skills and cannot win cases in court.
Supposedly, a "liberally-educated" person is someone who is trained as a thinker. Creative and critical thinking are the buzzwords that are thrown around as the key to success in the knowledge-age economy. These are the skills that a liberal arts education would cultivate. After all, it's the impetus behind the Yale-NUS college that's about to start in a couple of years. I have no doubt that liberal arts graduates possess important traits - especially at the managerial level. Nonetheless, few people start out being managers. People usually work their way up. And when you're at the bottom, having tangible skills is really important.
That's probably why I've been focused in my last 2 semesters here on acquiring practical skills sets. Computer science, statistics and languages immediately come to mind. I see my first steps post graduation as the beginnings of practical training. I want to learn about different industries especially about financial markets. I also want to learn about broad functional areas especially in strategy.
Here's to the end of living in the ivory tower, lacing up my running shoes and hitting the road.
defining himself: Shawn
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