Life skills

Autism lasts a lifetime. Can support stay the course?

For many autistic adults, the need for support continues, not just for a few years after school ends, but for life.

My left hand knows what my right hand can’t do

It’s not easy being a left-hander in a world designed for right-handers, says the writer. But some, like former US president Barack Obama, have done so with aplomb.

The age of maxxing has a hidden cost

If optimisation is the mindset, technology has become its greatest enabler.

Why we are haunted by the choices we didn’t make

No matter how much research we do before making a decision, however, we will never know that it will “work out” for sure. Because certainty doesn’t exist, writes the author.

The next career skill you need to learn? How to drop the bad habits

We often talk about lifelong learning and "upskilling" - but in our 40s and 50s, we must learn to unlearn the bad habits that've followed us in our decades at work, says the writer.

Everyone wants to be ‘high agency’ now

“High agency” is now being branded as a personality trait.

Forum: Step into the new year with a sense of what endures

Finding Joy

Finally picking up ballet, once a childhood dream, in my thirties

Going on pointe - gives that great sense of accomplishment because it took the writer years of practice to get there.

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From nurse to frontline paramedic: How her inspiring journey is now possible with the Work-Study Diploma

With SCDF's Work-Study Diploma in Paramedicine, you can experience a career on the frontline and impact lives like Sergeant (SGT) Stephanie Goh.

Finding Joy

Stuck in traffic, a spontaneous call keeps love alive

Maybe joy isn’t in what we say during those calls. Maybe it’s simply in the act of making the call, the writer says about her phone conversations with her grandmother in Penang.

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