Bill Gates - Rules for Life
Love him or hate him, he sure hits
the nail on the head with this! 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.