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| In Bill Gates'
new book Business @ The Speed of Thought he lays out 11 rules that
students do not learn in high school or college, but should. He
argues that our feel-good, politically-correct teachings have created
a generation of kids with no concept of reality who are set 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 parents' generation, try "delousing" the clothes 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. They will let you try 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 summer 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 their jobs. RULE 11 - Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. |
Isn't making a smoking section
in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?
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