STAR-POST (Music) January 2019 STAR-Post 2019 | Page 12

Honour, Values, Talent
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Honour,
Values,
Talent
The future is one in which the
unseen becomes much more
important than the seen. How
can we learn to see, think and
feel things differently in order
to discover and create new
ways to prepare the young
for the future?
Mr Lim Siong Guan speaking on the importance of
honouring our humanity and talents
WATCH
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the Keynote by
Mr Lim Siong
Guan on Growing
Beyond Talent
LIVING IN A VUCA WORLD past 300 years. Thus, there is an urgent need
Disrupted economies, fast-paced changes in for arts educators to imbue in our students a
markets, unpredictable political and economic sense of curiosity and imagination to ask,
landscapes; these are the conditions and what could the future be?
situations that arise from a VUCA world. All
of us are familiar with the term, VUCA, which While we cannot predict what the future will
simply means Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and look like, we know for sure that everything
Ambiguous. In fact, the future has always been that could be automated, will be automated.
as such and that has always been the challenge However, the acceleration of automation has
faced by every generation. The pace of change ethical implications and humanity will have to
will be faster in the next 20 years than in the be anchored in honour.