You mean we are NOT GRACIOUS enough?

Singapore prides itself for many firsts in the world and we can get a good list of them. I think we are also the first to have Courtesy campaign. Obviously, when we have such a campaign, it simply suggests that we are not courteous enough. The same rationale applies to Safety campaign, Productivity campaign and Quality campaign just to name a few.

Next, I think we are also not kind enough, so we have the Singapore Kindness Movement. Lately, a bank officer quit his job to start a non-profit organisation aimed at mobilising a "Gracious Movement" here in Singapore. So, it means that we are still not gracious enough.

As a matter of fact, I think we are not showing enough of our second natures. All these second natures should be part of our upbringing at home. It should also have been given a higher level of importance and priority and be taught and imparted to school children from young as a part of the so-called holistic education in schools and they should be the desired outcomes of education in schools. These are EQs.

But, I think we as a nation, have got carried away in developing the IQs and have in a way neglected the developing of EQs which are deemed to be more instrumental in a person's success in life. While a nation develops swiftly economically and technologically, we should often reflect and go back to the basic, root or core values.