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"Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all
yourself." - Alfred Sheinwold
Katherine Nichole Deibel, a grad student at the University of Washington, states in
her Deibel Rules of Life:
Charles J. Sykes, author and educationalist wrote the article Some rules kids won't
learn in school for the San Diego Union-Tribune. (This article is sometimes wrongly
attributed to Bill Gates.) The following is a pared down version:
Katie Paine is an entrepreneur. The following, excerpts from her manifesto, are some of
the things she believes to be true about life in general:
1. Stay Fit: Staying Alive comes first – run, exercise, do something to keep yourself
healthy.
2. People are Important: Relationships are next. Without friends, you are nothing.
A friend, or a connection extends your lifespan by a decade. Put your friends
first. The pain of losing a friend is the worst you’ll ever experience. Spend time
with the friends you have while you have them. They might be gone tomorrow or
next week, you never know.
3. Enjoy Life: No one ever lay on their death bed and wished they’d spent more
time vacuuming, or at work, or asleep
4. Be Yourself: Be who you are and see who is pleased, stop trying to make
everyone happy. You can’t. Be true to your values, your beliefs, your vision, your
soul. Nothing else matters.
5. Everything happens for a reason.
6. Care: After breathing, the most important thing in life is caring.
7. Make a Difference: There are millions of people on the planet that just take up
oxygen. Do you want to be one of them, or do you want to make a difference?
You don’t have to make a difference on the whole while world. Make a difference
in your community, in your family, in your neighborhood. It’s just as important.
8. It’s okay to miss your friends, it preserves their memories.