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 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 $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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TWELVE POINTS ON ATTITUDE
  1. It is your attitude at the beginning of a task more than anything else that will determine your success or failure.
  2. It is your attitude towards life that will determine life’s attitude towards you. Despite many people’s belief to the contrary,life pays no favorites.
  3. You control your attitude. If you are negative it is because you have decided to be negative and not because of other people or circumstances.
  4. Act as if you have a good attitude. Remember actions trigger feelings just as feelings trigger actions.
  5. Before a person can achieve the kind of results he wants, he must first become that person. He must then think, walk, talk, act and conduct himself in all of his affairs, as would the person he wishes to become.
  6. Treat everybody as the most important person in the world.
  7. Attitudes are based on assumptions. In order to change attitudes one must first change one’s assumptions.
  8. Develop the attitude that there are more reasons why you should succeed than reasons why you should fail.
  9. When you are faced with a problem, adopt the attitude that you can and will solve it.
  10. We become what we think about. Control your thoughts and you will control your life.
  11. Radiate the attitude of confidence, of well being, of a person who knows where he is going. You will then find good things happening to you right away.
  12. In order to develop a good attitude, take charge first thing in the morning. Do you say, “Good morning, Lord” or “Good Lord,morning?”
Read these twelve points every day for the next thirty days and see how your life changes.
ATTITUDES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN FACTS