Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Overworking kills creativity
Do you know what people do in Spain? They start work at 10am or 11am, then go for lunch at 12! then SLEEP! It's a fiesta, where the whole country is practically asleep just after lunch till about 2pm+ and then they close shop for the day at 5pm! Then it's probably a quickie game of soccer and a nap before they go and Party at 3am till about 6am.
It's the same story with the Italians, probably similar in Sweden and switzerland. That's why they can come up with Leornado Da Vinci, Ferrari's, Salvatore Ferragamo What about Singapore? All we do is WORK and WORK, fulfill deadlines, expectations, prepare presentations and reports and then the government urges us to be creative when the brain is dead and exhausted.
Children get up at ungodly 5am for school, after a measly 25min recess it's another few hours of monotonous lessons, after school it's either remidials or CCAs, the same with working adults and tertiary students. In fact the average Singaporean is awake 18 hours a day.
Tell me how to be creative when we're working our butts off? Furiously studying for some totally forgettable upcoming test or rushing to meet a project deadline just to receive another project?
It's pure irony.
9:04 PM
