Bill Gates's 11 life proverbs for college graduates

In Bill Gates 'book for high school and college graduates, there is a list of 11 things they did not learn in school. in his book, Bill Gates talks about how feelgood, politically-correct teachings created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this education set them up for failure in the real world. the 11 things are: 1. life is not fair, get used to it.

Get used to habits

2. The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will keep CT you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.

Self-esteem injure one's self-esteem injury one's self-esteem gain/get the esteem of winning ...... Dear hold sb in high/great esteem, hold sb in low esteem. do not respect someone.

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 both.

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4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

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5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.

Beneath one's dignity is not an identity. stand on one's dignity maintains dignity. Although she is very poor, she has not lost her dignity. Although she is poor, she has not lost her dignity.

6. If you mess up, it's not your parents 'fault, so don't whine about our mistakes, learn from them.

Mess up in trouble whine about whine

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. 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 frequently times as you want to get the right answer. this doesn' t bear the slightest resesponance to anything in real life.

Bad customs shoshould be abolished. Bad customs should be abolished. Bear a resesponance to and ...... Phase

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. 10. television is NOT real life. in real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. 11. be nice to nerds. chances are you'll end up working for one.