In reply to Harold Jarche » Born in a storm.

Rule 12: Check your sourcesYou must be kidding! The blog from which you take these rules itself has a link to a site (http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/billgatesspeech.htm) which debunks the claim that these rules came from Bill Gates.

At any rate, these rules are pseudo-Darwinian toughness for those who take a me-centric view of the world. Reality is in some ways mercyless - especially the karmic chains of cause and effect - but as a model of how to live on this earth this is really myopic. The world in this 21st century desperately needs a larger vision than this, more penetrating to the heart of the matter.