比尔盖茨给毕业生的忠告

凌云壮志难能可贵，但我们要有正确的心态。在比尔盖茨写给高中毕业生和大学毕业生的一本书里，列举了10项学生没能在学校里学到的东西，下面就让我们一起聆听：

1．生活是不公平的；要去适应它。

2．这世界并不会在意你的自尊，而是要求你在自我感觉良好之前先有所成就。

3．高中刚毕业你不会一年挣4万美元。你不会成为一个公司的副总裁，不会拥有一部装有电话的汽车——直到你将这些都挣到手的那一天。

4．如果你认为你的老师严厉，等你有了老板再这样想。老板可是没有任何限制的。

5．卖汉堡包不会有损于你的尊严。你的祖父母对卖汉堡包有不同的理解，他们称之为“机遇”。

6．如果你陷入困境，那不是你父母的过错，不要将你理应承担的责任转嫁给他人，而要学着从中吸取教训。

7．在你出生之前，你的父母并不像现在那样乏味，他们变成今天这个样子是因为这些年来一直在为你付帐单，给你洗衣服。所以，在对父母喋喋不休之前，还是先去打扫一下你自己的屋子吧。

8．你的学校也许已经不再分优等生和劣等生了，但生活却仍在作出类似区分。在某些学校已经废除不及格分；只要你找到正确答案，学校会给你无数次机会。这和现实生活中的任何事情没有一点相似之处。

9．走出学校后的生活没有学期，也没有暑假之说。没有几位老板乐于帮助你发现自我，你必须依靠自己去完成。

10．电视中的许多场景决不是真实的生活。在现实生活中，人们必须埋头做自己的工作，而非像电视里演的那样天天泡在咖啡馆里。

1．Life is not fair, get used to it. 

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

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. 

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

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

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

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 many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life. 

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.