FOOD FOR THOUGHT

In Bill Gates's book,business @ The Speed of thoughts, he lays out 11 rules that students do not learn in high school or college,but should.

He argues that our feel-good,politically correct teachings have created a generation of kids with no concept of reality who are set up for failure in the real world.

Here is a list: thought it nice to share it with you to read one day

RULE1: Life is not fair, get used to it.

RULE2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

RULE3: You will not make $40 000(the amount will obviously change by the time you read this) a year right out of high school.You won't be vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.

RULE4: If you think your teacher is tough,wait till you get  a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

RULE5:Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping,they called it opportunity.

RULE6: If you mess up its not your parents' fault,so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

RULE7: Before you where 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 parents' generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own room.

RULE8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers,but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades, they'll give you as may times as  you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

RULE9: 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

RULE10: Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shops and go to jobs.

RULE11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.