In this part of the world, there's so much emphasis on success. My book is to promote the fact that there's no failure, only feedback.
Success comes in a time-delayed capsule.
The stigma of failure in school, business or life is very real in tiny Singapore after it transformed itself from a backwater into an affluent financial hub in less than 40 years. Lum said the 132-page book, launched a week ago with a print run of 5,000 copies, draws on his own experiences. He failed in his university entrance exams, his undergraduate degree in accountancy and a masters programme in commerce. Three businesses flopped. He was unlucky in love too, but has since been married for 16 years and has two children.