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11 Rules
Only Life Will Teach You
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at
a High School about 11 things
they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel
good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with
no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the
real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to
it!
Rule 2: The world won't care about
your self-esteem. The world will
expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a
year right out of high school. You
won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is
tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not
beneath your dignity. Your
Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it
opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your
parents' fault, so don't whine
about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your
parents weren't as boring as they
are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your
clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were.
So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's
generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away
with winners and losers, but
life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and
they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer.
This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into
semesters. You don't get summers off
and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do
that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life.
In real life people actually
have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are
you'll end up working for one.
~ By Bill Gates ~
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