11 RULES YOU WILL NEVER LEARN IN SCHOOL By: Bill Gates
Here is a list of 11 things that many high school andcollege graduates did not learn in school. In his book, BillGates talks about how feel-good, politically-correctteachings created a full generation of kids with noconcept of reality and how this concept set them up forfailure in the real world!
RULE 1 Life is not fair – get used to it!
Hidup ini tidak adil – biasakan diri kalian dengankenyataan ini!
RULE 2 The world wont care about your self-esteem.The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Dunia tak kan peduli harga diri kalian. Dunia hanya menginginkankalian bisa menghasilkan suatu karya atau pencapaian SEBELUM kalian bisa merasa nyaman dengan diri kalian sendiri.
RULE 3 You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You wont be a vice president with car phone, until you earn both.
Kalian TIDAK akan mendapat gaji besar begitu lulus sekolah. Kalian tidakakan bisa jadi seorang wakil presiden dengan fasilitas mobil sampai kalian benar-benar layak mendapatkannya.
RULE 4 If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesnt have tenure.
Jika kalian beranggapan guru kalian bersikap keras,tunggu sampai kalian mendapat seorang bos.
RULE 5 Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping they called it Opportunity.
Jangan gengsi melakukan pekerjaan part-time. Kakek-nenek kalianpunya istilah yang berbeda untuk pekerjaan semacam ini – mereka menyebutnya peluang.
RULE 6 If you mess up, its not your parents fault, so dont whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Jika kalian berbuat salah, itu bukan kesalahan orangtuamu. Jadi jangan mengeluh karena kesalahan-kesalahanmu, melainkan ambil pelajaran dari kesalahan itu.
RULE 7 Before you were born, your parents werent 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. Sobefore you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Sebelum kalian lahir, orangtua kalian tidak bersikapmembosankan seperti sekarang. Mereka seperti itu karena harusmembayar tagihan-tagihan kalian, membersihkan pakaian kalian,dan mendengarkan kalian bercerita betapa kerennya kalian. Jadi sebelum kalian menyingkirkan parasit-parasit dari generasiorangtua kalian, cobalah hilangkan dulu kutu-kutu di dalam diri kalian.
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 theyll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesnt bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Sekolah kalian bisa saja tidak memilih mana pemenang dan manapihak yang kalah, tapi hidup TIDAK SEPERTI ITU. Di beberapa sekolah, nilai-nilai yang jelek bisa dihapus begitu saja. Mereka akan memberi kalian BANYAK SEKALI kesempatan untuk memperbaiki kegagalan kalian. Hal ini TIDAK AKAN TERJADI di dalam kehidupan nyata.
RULE 9 Life is not divided into semesters. You dont get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
Hidup itu tidak terdiri dari semester-semester. Kalian tidak akan mendapat waktu istirahat. Dan hanya ada segelintirpemberi kerja yang tertarik untuk membantu kalian dalam MENEMUKAN JATI DIRI KALIAN. Lakukan itu sendiri.
RULE 10 Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Televisi BUKAN kehidupan nyata. Dalam kehidupan nyata, orang- orang harus meninggalkan kedai kopi dan bekerja.
RULE 11 Be nice to nerds. Chances are youll end up working for one.
Bersikap baiklah dengan orang-orang CUPU. Mungkin saja, salah satu dari orang-orang CUPU ini akan jadi atasan kalian.
