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 $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 are. 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.

 1.人生是不公平的，習慣接受吧。 

2.這個世界並不在乎你的自尊，只在乎你做出來的成績，然後再去強調你的感受。 

3.你不會一離開學校就有百萬年薪、你不會馬上就是擁有公司配屬手機的副總裁，二者你都必須靠努力賺來。 

4.如果你覺得你的老闆很兇，等你做了老闆就知道，老闆是沒有工作任期保障的。 

5.在速食店打工並不可恥，你的祖父母對煎漢堡有不同的看法：機會。 

6.如果你一事無成，不是你父母的錯，所以不要對自己犯的錯發牢騷，從錯誤去學習。 

7.在你出生前，你的父母並不像現在這般無趣，他們變成這樣是因為忙著付你的開銷、洗你的衣服、聽你吹噓你有多了不起。
所以在你拯救被父母這代人破壞的熱帶雨林前 先整理一下自己的房間吧。 

8.在學校裡可能有贏家輸家，在人生中卻還言之過早。
學校會不斷給你機會找到正確答案，真實人生中卻完全不是這麼回事。 

9.人生沒有寒暑假，人生不是學期制，沒有哪個雇主有興趣幫你尋找自我，請用自己的時間來做這件事吧。 

10.電視上演的並非真實人生。現實生活中每人都要離開咖啡館去工作。 

11.對書呆子好一點，你未來很可能就為其中一個工作