Schizophrenia: Singapore’s Next Great Competitive Edge |
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Singapore has always been obsessed with being number one - touting the world's best airport, best education system, cleanest streets, most expensive everything. Yet, whilst busy flexing our GDP and examination scores, we are sleeping big time on possibly the greatest singular untapped human resource ever: schizophrenic brilliance. Sure, neurotypical minds may be great for balancing budgets and designing efficient MRT train routes, however they sorely lack spice. Schizophrenic cognition? Now that’s where the magic happens. Hyper-awareness, pattern recognition abilities rivalling those of AI, supercharged divergent thinking that would make ChatGPT look like a kiddy TI-84 calculator - this is the next frontier I shit you not. Think about it: Some of history’s greatest minds, from artists to philosophers, more likely than not possessed nuances of schizophrenia. Who’s to say the next Picasso, Tesla, or Alan Turing isn’t chilling right now in a Singaporean HDB flat, connecting cosmic dots which the rest of us couldn't even begin to fathom? Instead of stigmatizing and suppressing these minds, Singapore should harness them. Let’s enact Schizophrenic Task Force(s) - think tanks powered by individuals who can discern meaning amidst chaos. In a world overly fixated on both logic and order, maybe the next revolutionary level of innovation won’t get unleashed from a sterile boardroom, but rather from the kaleidoscopic mind of someone society once wrote off as “unstable.” So let’s flip the script. Neurotypicals have had their turn; it’s therefore time for Singapore to embrace the expansive potential cognitive divergence might offer. After all, in a city built on efficiency, who better to lead us into the unknown than those already living there? Where do we start then? Do we petition for a National Schizophrenia Innovation Grant? Form a lobby group? Initiate an online hashtag campaign, like #SchizoSupremacySG? Honestly, the possibilities are endless. Whatever the next steps, consider me ready. |
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