11 rules by Bill Gates: They are a little old (see rule #3) but are still important rules to know in life.
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 a car phone, until you earn it.
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 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 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.
RULE 8: 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 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 employees are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that in 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.
See rule #8 above. I went looking for these rules by Bill Gates because my wife and I found out that our son was to have handed in an assigment last Monday (almost a week ago) but instead of getting a mark of 0, his teacher has allowed him to hand it in this Friday with no marks being taken away for tardiness.
I really don’t want my son to receive a zero but I also want him to learn rule #8. If I tell his teacher to give him a mark of 0, then he’d at least learn rules #1,2 and 6 pretty fast as well.
I know what we’re going to do, but what do YOU think we should do?
Thanks for your opinions.
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