Without permission…

These are taken from Ben Steins book.  The book is called “How to Ruin Your Life”.    He is a humorist, economist and actor and writer.  I would give these to all 6th, 7th and 8th graders …. the bad ones especially and then I would give it to their parents.

1                 Don’t Learn Any Useful Skills

2                 Don’t Learn any Self-Discipline

3                 Convince Yourself- You Are The Center of The Universe

4                 Never Accept Any Responsibility for Anything That Goes Wrong

5                 Criticize Early and Often

6                 Never Be Grateful & Thankful

7                 Know That You’re the Source of All Wisdom

8                 Envy Everything; Appreciate Nothing

9                 Be a Perfectionist

10              Think Too Big

11              Don’t Enjoy The Simple Things In Life

12              Fix Anyone & Everyone at Any Time

13              Treat the People Who are Good to You – Badly

14              Treat the People Who are Bad to You – Well

15              Hang Out With The Wrong Crowd

16              Make The People Around You Feel Small

These are as good as “Everything you need to know about life you learn in 3rd grade”.  The writer I have forgotten, but he is also very good in a simplistic and entertaining way.