Bill Gates’ Speech to Mt. Whitney High School

Bill Gates’ Speech to Mt. Whitney High School in Visalia, California.
It’s been brought to my attention that these are not Bill Gates’ words (http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.htm) – if this information is accurate, I thank the sender for his clarification. I am leaving the posting here anyway as it is cool reading.

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Worthwhile reading for anyone. Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! To anyone with kids of any age, or anyone who has ever been a kid, here’s some advice Bill Gates recently dished out at a high school speech 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 $40,000 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 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 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.

빌게이츠가 고등학교 강단에서 말한 10가지 인생충고

1. 인생이란 원래 공평하지 못하다.

그런 현실에 대하여 불평할 생각하지 말고 받아들여라.

2. 세상은 네 자신이 어떻게 생각하든 상관하지 않는다.
세상이 너희들한테 기대하는 것은 네가 스스로 만족하다고

느끼기 전에 무엇인가 를 성취해서 보여줄 것을 기다리고 있다.

3. 대학교육을 받지 않는 상태에서 연봉이 4만 달러가 될 것이라고는 상상도하 지 말라.

4. 학교선생님이 까다롭다고 생각되거든 사회 나와서 직장 상사의

진짜 까다로운 맛을 한번 느껴봐라.

5. 햄버거 가게에서 일하는 것을 수치스럽게 생각하지 마라.
너희 할아버지는 그 일을 기회라고 생각하였다.

6. 네 인생을 네가 망치고 있으면서 부모 탓을 하지 마라.
불평만 일삼을 것이 아니라 잘못한 것에서 교훈을 얻어라.

7. 학교는 승자나 패자를 뚜렷이 가리지 않을 지 모른다.
어떤 학교에서는 낙제제도를 아예 없애고 쉽게 가르치고 있다는 것을 잘 안다.
그러나 사회 현실은 이와 다르다는 것을 명심하라.

8. 인생은 학기처럼 구분되어 있지도 않고 여름 방학이란 것은 아예 있지도 않다.

네가 스스로 알아서 하지 않으면 직장에서는 가르쳐주지 않는다.

9. TV는 현실이 아니다. 현실에서는 커피를 마셨으면 일을 시작하는 것이 옳다.

10. 공부 밖에 할줄 모르는 “바보” 한테 잘 보여라.
사회 나온 다음에는 아마 그 “바보” 밑에서 일하게 될지 모른다.