My dad forwarded me an email the other day and I loved it. SO SO TRUE! I figured it was good enough to share here.
Bill Gates gave a speech at a high school about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He addresses how feel-good, politically correct teachings have created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept has set them up for failure in the real world. These things are so true!
I’d love to hear your thoughts at the end in the comments section as well, about what you’ve learned in the real world that they never taught you in school. What nuggets of wisdom do you hope to pass along, teach your kids, or would tell a high school student given the chance now?
Rule 1 : Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2 : The world doesn’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.
The journey is as important as the destination and sometimes more
Good grades are not what it is all about… you have got to learn
The hardest thing to do sometimes is to start
Don’t seek happiness. Seek to do the right thing, then happiness will follow
Work a little on your goals everyday and you will be surprised how much you accomplished at the end of the week.
Don’t bitch and complain; plan and execute