I do not know if Gates actually authored these rules or not, but I
thought these were poignant and wanted to pass them on.
Mike
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Here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out at a high school
speech
about 11 things they did not learn in school. He talks about how
feel-good;
politically correct teaching has created a full generation of kids
with no
concept of reality and how this concept sets 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 40 thousand dollars 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. He doesn't have tenure.
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 are. 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.
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