Whether   you like Bill Gates or not – or whether he actually said these things or not – this is pretty
cool. Some advice Bill Gates supposedly 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 a vice president with
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 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.