3 Keys to Nations’ Success - Pride, Hardship, Simplification

3 Keys to Nations’ Success - Pride, Hardship, Simplification
2010 03 10
solvere.blogspot.com
Solvere Lim Swee Keng

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Summary

3 Keys

Many nations study Singapore story of success.
Lee Kuan Yew, one of the founders, pointed two important points for success – Pride and Hardship.

However, Singapore does not escape the greatest world economic crisis.
There must be some extra wisdom, over-riding wisdom that the world need, Singapore yet to cognize.
This wisdom is Simplification - the key that governs all inventions.

Simplification - Overriding Priority

Only through simplification, are we able to solve bigger, more complicated, more difficult problems.
Only through simplification, can we afford good, affordable housing, education, health care for the people.
Only then can we be confident we will be served by loving, capable, devoted people of own land, after shocked by retarded services in advanced nations' hospitals.
There is no time longer than that thousands miles of flight.
There is nothing more precious than own country, own nation, own people, own family.

Richest, most powerful must recognize their well beings depends on people willingness to serve them.
Their happiness depends on whether the people around them are credible, capable, loving, devoting!
These are not in the numbers, indices, models, even Nobel Prize winning equations.
Love, capabilities, credibility, devotion are more tangible than money, numbers, yet they are suffocated by misplaced priorities.
Such immense misplacement can only be the result of human nature misunderstood.

Simplification can be achieved only after comprehending the realities correctly.
Simplification resulted in effective, efficient, elegant solutions.
This is the manifestation of advancement of wisdom.

Therefore, Simplification is not just an indicator, it is the overriding priority, ultimate importance.

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