Excelling Every Day Is Easier Than You Think
By Dato’ Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
September 2023 EDITORIAL
ANYONE WHO HAS achieved something they are proud of, when revisiting the memory of it later in life, tends to feel a warm and tingling sensation of “Wow, did I do that? Was that me?!”Much can be gleaned about ourselves from this simple common phenomenon. Firstly, one cannot always excel, in the normal sense of the word. Excelling requires a sustained and focused period of investment in attention, energy and time—below the level of excellence, some safe distance away from...
Dato’ Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His recent books include The Eurasian Core and its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the History of the World (ISEAS 2016). Homepage: wikibeng.com
