Bill Gates` lesson in wisdom!

[DragonflyProperties]

Hi all,

Although the following has been around before I think that it is worth a repeat. If we are lucky, the current generation of kids might get the message one day.

Keith

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Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! 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.

 

[invst4profit]

Excellent real life lessons.
My kids have been raised hearing most, or variations, of those throughout there lives.
The most common one heard in our home was the first one word for word.
In today`s world #3 applies to right out of university in the vast majority of cases.
Although I have raised my kids with very similar beliefs they are just know beginning to fully understand how accurate all of those statements actually are.
They have both graduated from university or college and have been in the work world for 1 to 3 years.
If all parents would teach those lessons fewer young people would this "entitlement" attitude that so many of them seem to have today.

 

[BrianPersaud]

QUOTE (DragonflyProperties @ Dec 2 2009, 03:41 AM)

Hi all,

Although the following has been around before I think that it is worth a repeat. If we are lucky, the current generation of kids might get the message one day.

Keith

___________________________________

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! 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.





I think a lot of real estate investors should take these lessons...there are a lot of bad people in the real estate investing world

 

[JimWhitelaw]

Just a quick note - the list did not originate with Bill Gates. It`s a mystery why it is frequently attributed to him.

From: http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.asp
QUOTE This list is the work of Charles J. Sykes, author of the 1996 book Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can`t Read, Write, Or Add. (The list has appeared in newspapers, although not necessarily in this book. It does, however, form the meat of his 2007 book 50 Rules Kids Won`t Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education.)