Yikes. It’s time for my 20-year high-school reunion. I have the wrinkles and the gray hair to prove it. Although I look back and snicker at all the keg parties I threw at my house when my mom was away, and how I always seemed …
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Good stuff! thanks
Really liked this. Spot on.
That’s bull. All I learned from school is that people are idiots.
Love this. I’m a high school teacher, and I will share this with my students.
Don’t forget how to roll a joint and put on a condom. Thats what I learned in High School.
Also check out, 9 More Things I Learned in High School!
pretty good!!! i really like it that might be another instrument for life.
I’m not entirely convinced that this is the most useful series of thoughts. Several of these bother me:
1.)Acting as if you belong doesn’t necessarily ease any of the difficulty of social institution in high school. The problem is simply that almost everyone feels like they don’t belong, realizing this is your first real tool for success.
In your example of your high school honors class you say you “fooled” your teacher into giving you A’s. I would argue that you earned those A’s and you deserved to be in that class just as much as everyone else. Remember, your rule #4.
Simply put, if you want to be an athlete, make yourself an athlete. Very rarely do truly successful people suddenly “discover” that they are fantastic at something, they have to work at it and decide who they want to be.
6.) You, as a human being, will naturally compare yourself to others. The solution isn’t in not comparing yourself to another, but rather, judiciously choosing who to compare yourself to. It helps to have those you look up to because they give you guidance and a standard to hold yourself to.
The problem comes when you start comparing yourself to people for the wrong reasons. If you compare yourself to someone on the scale of such things as social status, you look at the things that do not matter. However, if you measure yourself on the scale of character, then much can be gained.
10.) I know it’s a well repeated phrase “Be Yourself”, but the real problem is that many people use it as an excuse. Why get out and do something great if it’s “not you”? I understand that knowing oneself is of high importance, but you sell yourself short on personal growth. I think it is important, instead, to be MORE than yourself. You should be more tomorrow than today.
Overall, I think the most important thing to learn from highschool is that people are false, situations are false, and most situations are what you make of them. What bothers you now and may be of earth-shattering importance may matter nothing in the long run. Learn that everyone thinks they know a better way at the beginning, but very few people have the strength to pan out in the long run.
Just don’t oversimplify such important lessons.