He talked about how school
teaching [has] no resemblance to
life’s teachings and no concept of reality. Having successful grades does not
mean having success in life. He sets up the talk about how to expect failures
from life and move on.
1. Life
is not fair, get used to it.
2. The
world does not care about your self esteem. The world will expect you to
accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.
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.
4. If
you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
5. Flipping
burgers is not below your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for
burger flipping: They called it opportunity.
6. If
you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine from your mistakes
learn from them.
7. Before
you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that
way by 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.
8. Your
school may have done away with winner and losers but
life has not. In some schools, they have abolished falling 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.
9. Life
is not divided into semesters. You don’t summers off and very few employers are
interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
10.
Television is not real life, in real life people have to leave a
coffee shop and go to jobs.
11.
Be nice to nerds, chances are you’ll end up working for one…[ii]
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| Bill Gates |
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