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Good Morning Sunday: 11 Rules You Will Never Learn in School by Bill Gates

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Bill Gates gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. Words of wisdom and life from one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the century.

He talked about how school teaching have no resemblance to life’s teachings and no concept of reality. Having successful grades does not mean having success in life. He sets up the talk about how to expect failures from life and move on.


11 Rules You Will Never Learn in School by Bill Gates

Rule 1: Life is not fair, get used to it

Rule 2: The world does not 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 below your dignity. Your grand parents 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 from 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 by paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you though 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 winner and losers but life has not. In some schools, they have abolished falling 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 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 have to leave a coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds, chances are you’ll end up working for one.

I love rule number 1 and rule number 11….Nerds Rule :).

Have a Super Sunday and a great week ahead

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20 comments

Ken April 22, 2012 - 1:22 pm
ZK, I love your stuff and subscribe to your blog but this list was not from Bill Gates. I don't want to be a Debbie Downer. Here is a link to Snopes.com. I still like the points but they came from another nerd. :-) http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/schoolrules.asp
ZK April 22, 2012 - 2:08 pm
Awww ......thanks Ken for sharing the link , like you rightly said its about the rules you'll never learn in school :) Cheers ..have a super sunday :)
richard April 22, 2012 - 2:44 pm
Nice post Zk .. Really inspiring words from "The Bill Gates" :)
kenyanjobs April 23, 2012 - 1:29 am
Great one This man is good, as you say these are real Words of wisdom and life from one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the century. I like the the TV one, its not real life, in real life people have to leave a coffee shop and go to jobs. and the Nerds one also rocks, Its so true because am a living example
krishan singh April 23, 2012 - 2:13 am
Hi read your post this very good & inspiring post. keep it up :-) thanx
Bangalore Hotels April 23, 2012 - 2:43 am
Bill Gates is a good person, he has given inspiration to lot of people. I appreciate the work that he has done for humanity and i can understand that life is never fair. I acknowledge all your points.
Aasma April 23, 2012 - 3:04 am
These lines really shows the character and value, that it's been spoken by one of the greatest businessmen.
Nanvy @ CRM Software Solutions April 23, 2012 - 3:18 am
After reading the all the rules i also like the rule #1, 10 & 11. This is very inspirational speech from the great businessman.
Goa trip April 23, 2012 - 3:27 am
When everyone know exact means of these rules i thing then no one can stop him/her to go on the top in their life.
Property Marbella April 23, 2012 - 3:36 am
Hi ZK, Long time sines last comments from me. Then right as Bill Gates has written it, life and reality is much harder than what we learned in school with her all the protective rules. Schools should teach these 11 rules and get students to realize what awaits them after school.
ZK April 23, 2012 - 3:58 am
@Property Marbella ..good to hear from you :)
Jasmine April 23, 2012 - 5:33 am
Wow, love these rules from the richest man on earth. These rules are priceless!
Adeline April 23, 2012 - 9:58 am
Truer words were never spoken. The mark of a great man. Thanks for sharing ZK.
Wholesale Clothing April 24, 2012 - 4:53 pm
all rules are amazing and good thoughts.Indeed,you'll never learn in school life
Ammara Wasim April 26, 2012 - 5:54 am
Hi ZK! Thanks for sharing the sayings of "Bill Gates". I am feeling very happy after reading this post because i am big fan of "Bill Gates".Keep Sharing,
IRA Options April 26, 2012 - 1:41 pm
I think every school should make a Poster of thess Rules and post it on the wall of every class. BTW, I like #2 as well, of course #11 is my favourite.
Strasbourg formation April 27, 2012 - 12:20 pm
Thanks for your advice , we learnt at school a lot of things but , we don't use it in real life !!! Parents are insist so much with their child and they don't want to ear their child complaining about school !!! Parents must be more tolerante with their child and try to understand them when they don't want to go to school I THINK !!!! http://www.straformation.fr/developpement-personnel/pnl-programmation-neuro-linguistique
Computer parts April 30, 2012 - 3:38 pm
Thanks for your advice , we learnt at school a lot of things but , we don’t use it in real life !!! Schools should teach these 11 rules and get students to realize what awaits them after school.I still like the points but they came from another nerd.
Roof Cleaning May 1, 2012 - 11:36 pm
Well done Bill Gates.Nerds rule.
payday June 13, 2012 - 2:01 am
hello zk., as a blog is alwys good and great man bill gates was told that practical knowledge is more better that means keep experience with you.don't fear at all for anything
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