Bill Gates' Advice
Here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out at a high
school speech about 11 things they did not learn in school. Gates sourced the
material from Charles J. Sykes book "Dumbing Down Our Kids".
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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