今天看到一段很棒的話，忍不住就引用了一下...

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 40 thousand USD 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 until 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 whine wabout your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7. Before you were born, your parents were not 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 rainforest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own room.

Rule 8, 9, 10...

Rule 11. Be nice to nerds. Chances are you will end up working for one.

Excerpted from "Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add" by Charles J. Sykes.