Kiasu Singaporeans

Singaporeans are known for being kiasu, or being afraid of losing. Yet this fear of losing is exactly what causes us to lose. Because when you are afraid of losing, it clouds your judgment... your mind keeps thinking about loss, it becomes preoccupied with loss rather than focusing on the issue at hand. In the end, this fear of losing becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; the mind becomes preoccupied, thus it is not able to analyse what is needed to succeed, and thus you end up failing.

It is time we wean ourselves from this bad trait. Yes, it is good to stay competitive, it is good to want to come up top. But we should not become too preoccupied with success or failure to the point that we lose sight of the important things in life.