Bill Gates' Lessons in Life
Here is a list of 11 things that many high school and college graduates did
not learn in school. In his book, Bill Gates talks about how feel-good,
politically-correct teachings created a full generation of kids with no
concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real
world.
- Life is not fair; get used to it.
- The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect
you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
- You will not make $40,000 a year right out of high
school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn
both. (Hmm, that one must have been written before 1998.)
- If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He
doesn't have tenure.
- Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had
a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.
- If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about
your mistakes, learn from them.
- 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 parents' generation, try "delousing"
the closet in your own room.
- Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life
has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; 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.
- 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.
- Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to
leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
- Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.