For Nathanael Lim, spending two years struggling at a difficult job taught him that our failures don’t have to define us.
For Nathanael Lim, spending two years struggling at a difficult job taught him that our failures don’t have to define us. The footnote he was questioning me about stared back at me from the very bottom of a dense document — to some, a small oversight; to me, an indelible hallmark of my latest failure. In my defence, it was among hundreds of documents I was typically assigned to read each night — but this was not the first mistake I would make at this particular job, nor would it be the last.
That particular meeting had been a breaking point of sorts. After it, I sat down at my desk and asked myself, for the very first time in my life: “Am I really that bad at what I do?” My father is a self-made man who had climbed the corporate ladder to become chief executive of an international company. He’d ingrained in me from a young age that I should aspire to be “a scholar in the classroom, an athlete on the field, and a master in the performance hall
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