I recently got an e-mail from one of my uncles.
I’ve seen this before and thought it would be worth sharing again. As you read these rules, think about how they apply to Internet/Network Marketing, and what we see out on the web. I noticed that there were many parallels that apply to the business world.
Bill Gates – Life Today
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 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 $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.
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March 19, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Good Rules!
March 19, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Hey Bill,
Thats exactly how things work in the real world..Great blog too..
I love the part about life is not fair too…wonder what he thinks
about losing almost $8 billion last year.. “Life Is Not Fair” YUP!
Bob Riddell
http://tweetpenquin.com/bobriddellLive
March 19, 2009 at 6:19 pm
HI Bill… Brilliant Advice Bill….SPOT ON in every way. I wish more parents & schools today would teach the children this. We can be a lot more help to other people in life, if we learn to live in the real world..when we are young. Great post Bill & a good reminder.
Best Wishes, Mary The Supergranny
March 19, 2009 at 6:43 pm
GREAT MATERIAL bILL wish there were more out there with your ethics, while Viktoria are fortunate to know a few you Rank right up there at the top! keep up the great work!
March 19, 2009 at 10:31 pm
I bet he believes it Bob. And you know people like that don’t know the word failure. He’ll just keep going even if it is in a different direction.
March 20, 2009 at 1:37 pm
I too remember getting that email and it is perfect. It is so true. It should be taught in high school and college. The world is what you make it. You create your reality but you have to take action to make it happen.
Thanks for the reminder.
Susan
May 9, 2009 at 12:55 am
Great advice. But Bill Gates didn’t say it. “The text itself a pared-down version of an op-ed piece that appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune on September 19, 1996. It was written by Charles J. Sykes, best known as the author of “Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good about Themselves, but Can’t Read, Write, or Add.” — quoted from urban myths