Clients: 07956 89 45 89 Common sense rules from Bill Gates. No wonder he ended up setting up, owning and running Microsoft!
A friend sent me an email today, telling me that apparently Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about eleven 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.
So, here’s Bill Gates’ rules – let’s teach them to our children…………
Rule 1 : Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2 : The world doesn’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!
Archive for August, 2016
French police make a Moslem woman on a Beach remove a Burkini
French police make woman remove burkini on Nice beach – do you think its right?
Or perhaps such a hatred of what is happening in the world that a woman who was minding her own business, lying on a beach, and dressed to protect her modesty (in her eyes) was made to remove an outer garment.
Dose this solve a problem? Or does it antagonise people for no reason?
What do you think?
Pink Icing, Blue Icing – do you really care?
Pink icing, Blue icing – do you care?
So our beloved Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood of Great British Bake Off fame are caught up in a situation where people objected at the implied sexual discrimination because very recently a man was photographed with blue icing, and a woman with pink.
I have to ask – do you really care?
And do these objectors have nothing better to do with their time, or have nothing better to worry about?
Then I started thinking deeper – for many decades, we have bought blue babygrows and blankets for baby boys, and pink babygrows and blankets for our baby girls.
Birth Congratulations cards, birthday cards, birthday cakes, all go down the same route.
Are we all guilty of implied discrimination and / or stereotyping because of this?
Should the entire baby industry be changed, and we should perhaps only have yellows and purples for both sexes?
What absolute, complete and utter tosh.