Important Life Lessons from a Famous Nerd

Over the generations, I believe that children have been set up with extreme feelings of entitlement. They have no idea what the real world is like, and due to the ways in which society has bent over backwards to create a politically correct feel good environment for our children, they have basically set them up for serious failure.

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a high school and he highlighted 11 things that you will not learn at school, but that are very important in the success or failure of our future generations. I found these 11 things to be amazing and wanted to share them here. I do hope even my own children read this and take them to heart. Bill Gates didn’t get to where he is today because he was a stupid man nor a man who believed he was ‘entitled’. 

I might even print this up and post it in the kids’ bathroom....... hmmm.......

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.

Over the generations, I believe that children have been set up with extreme feelings of entitlement. They have no idea what the real world is like, and due to the ways in which society has bent over backwards to create a politically correct feel good environment for our children, they have basically set them up for serious failure.

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a high school and he highlighted 11 things that you will not learn at school, but that are very important in the success or failure of our future generations. I found these 11 things to be amazing and wanted to share them here. I do hope even my own children read this and take them to heart. Bill Gates didn’t get to where he is today because he was a stupid man nor a man who believed he was ‘entitled’. 

I might even print this up and post it in the kids’ bathroom....... hmmm.......

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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