Key Things The World Learnt From This Covid19 Lockdown

Johnson Khoo
17 min readApr 26, 2020

We often learn the most important lessons during our darkest times.

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2020 has been shitty so far.

We had devastating bush fires in Australia, lost Kobe Bryant, and had the Covid19 coronavirus pandemic sending the entire world into lockdown, infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands worldwide.

It is terrible. But sometimes, drastic circumstances forces us to learn more about ourselves, try things we wouldn’t otherwise try, see things we wouldn’t otherwise see and realise things we wouldn’t usually realise.

1 — Offices Are Not That Important

With most of the world under lockdown and the majority of us working from home, some of us might be starting to realise that offices might not be that important after all.

Most jobs can actually be done from home with the right online tools, SOPs, KPIs and home office setup in place.

In fact, you actually end up working more if you are truly passionate about your job…

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Johnson Khoo

ASEAN Scholar | Founder @ Wowwwz | Start-up entrepreneur from Malaysia trying to help everyone in this world find true love and live happily ever after.