Beyond the Checklist: When Success Doesn’t Feed the Soul

Social media currently calls it the Millennial Career Crisis, and in our part of the world, it feels like something older and deeper.

It's the weight of the Parental/Ancestral Checklist — a series of checkboxes designed around stability: the right title, a respected organisation, and a stable home. For many high-performers in Singapore and across Southeast Asia, this was the inherited definition of success.