Words of Wisdom

nalani

nalani

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My cousin put this in my box. Please excuse the typos, I had to retype it :D

To anyone with kids, of any age, 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 vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait til you get a boss. He/She doesn't have tenure.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your diginity. Your granparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it "opportunity".

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parent's 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 resemblence 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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I sent that to my (then) 16-year-old niece a couple of years ago & she was not impressed. :D

On the other hand, wish I'd seen it 25 years ago.
 
Can we sticky that somewhere. The youth here could do with reading that a few times.

Maybe make reading it mandatory to logging in?
 
That's why it's taped to the fridge, they HAVE to go there. ;)
 
<--wouldnt mind



(im 136lbs .. how often do i really need to eat?)

i lived the entire summer off or concentrated juice chips and steak
 
I've received that and another form of it which was naming Dubya as the genius who spoke those words. Neither one is very plausible, as Dubya wouldn't have gone that long without stuttering or mincing words :lol: and Bill Gates couldn't care less about some rowdy high school rebels, he just wants them to buy his spyware...err...*cough* Windblows
 
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