23-04-2025
Game of life: Must success always be about good grades and jobs?
Is Singapore ready for diverse pathways to success so that young people can feel accomplished in their own ways?
In Your Opinion Podcast Game of life: Must success always be about good grades and jobs?
Synopsis: Every month, The Straits Times takes a hard look at Singapore's social issues of the day with guests.
In this special edition of In Your Opinion - filmed in front of a live audience - two youths share their experiences in starting up a business, and whether school grades would determine success at the workplace.
About 100 people attended two recordings at indie cinema The Projector at Golden Mile Tower on the evening of April 15.
The special In Your Opinion podcast live recording was organised in partnership with the National Youth Council (NYC), in support of the SG Youth Plan – an action blueprint created by youths, for youths and the world that they will lead.
About 100 people attended the live broadcast at indie cinema The Projector at Golden Mile Tower.
PHOTO: JASPER YU
The 45-minute dialogue (including a 15-minute Q&A session) was a part of The Straits Times' In Your Opinion podcast. Hosted by ST assistant podcast editor Lynda Hong, the podcast features two young entrepreneurs - Ms Adella Yeo and Mr Nabill Shukury.
The session on April 15 is the second instalment of ST Podcasts Live.
PHOTO: JASPER YU
Currently an account manager at a software company, Ms Adella Yeo Rae-Nyse had co-founded MatcHub, a startup that matched fellow NUS students to find suitable job roles based on their personality.
A part-time student with SUSS studying marketing, Nabill Shukry Johary juggles school with a business he started up in 2021 with his father - Cheekies, a home-based delivery service of healthy meals for the Muslim market - in a bid to help his family move out of their one-room rental apartment in Tampines.
Highlights (click/tap above):
1:56 Journey to entrepreneurship
7:35 The point of going to university is not just for the paper qualifications
10:28 How academic grades play a part post-school
16:15 Challenge the conventions of success
27:10 Advice for youths to forge their own success
The audience were also treated to finger food and free merchandise.
PHOTO: JASPER YU
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Host: Lynda Hong (lyndahong@
Produced and edited by: Hadyu Rahim
Executive producer: Ernest Luis
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