Words of Wisdom from Bill Gates

[Amled]

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice.
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set 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 $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.

If you agree, pass it on.
If you can read this - Thank a teacher!
If you are reading it in English -Thank a soldier!!

[Julie]

I love it !!

[Amled]

P.S. I should have put quote tags around the whole text, as that is how I received it from an American family member.
Even so I can endorse every word.

[Srirangan]

Words of Wisdom from Sri

Rule 1: Laziness can be a virtue, use it to become more efficient
Corollary 1: The simplest solution is always the best solution

Rule 2: People are precious, genuinely love and care for them

Rule 3: Passion is the secret of success
Corollary 3: Knowledge, know how, technology, organizational structures, discipline, infrastructure etc. can be bought and/or enforced; Passion is what makes you better
I've learnt it the hard way having to compete with 1 billion f'ing Indians for everything in life :-(

Rule 4: Buttercookies!!

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Obviously nobody will care about my list .. :(

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Especially because my final wish is to retire at 40 and settle as a pastoral farmer in Mongolia raising cattle, catching fish and living happy.

I don't like to work for 10-12 hours each day a month.
Get some numbers "added" to an imaginary "account" that will put a certain "amount" of 'credit' in a plastic card they give you.

Then you go show that card and buy bread? F#ck that!!

I wanna catch my fish and fry 'em under the stars! :D

[Srirangan]

Words of Wisdom from Sri

Rule 1: Laziness can be a virtue, use it to become more efficient
Corollary 1: The simplest solution is always the best solution

Rule 2: People are precious, genuinely love and care for them

Rule 3: Passion is the secret of success
Corollary 3: Knowledge, know how, technology, organizational structures, discipline, infrastructure etc. can be bought and/or enforced; Passion is what makes you better
I've learnt it the hard way having to compete with 1 billion f'ing Indians for everything in life :-(

Rule 4: Buttercookies!!

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Obviously nobody will care about my list .. :(

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Especially because my final wish is to retire at 40 and settle as a pastoral farmer in Mongolia raising cattle, catching fish and living happy.

I don't like to work for 10-12 hours each day a month.
Get some numbers "added" to an imaginary "account" that will put a certain "amount" of 'credit' in a plastic card they give you.

Then you go show that card and buy bread? F#ck that!!

I wanna catch my fish and fry 'em under the stars! :D

LOL. I just came up with the Mongolia thing. I think it is worth a research. I do hope they have fish in Mongolia. :-S