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Bill Gates shares life lessons he wishes someone told him in his youth

Bill Gates shared five things with the batch of 2023 which he wishes he was told at the graduation he never attended as he dropped out of college after three semesters to start Microsoft

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Bill Gates shares life lessons with youngsters (Source: Reuters)

Bill Gates is widely regarded as an inspiring figure owing to his pioneering work in the field of technology and his philanthropic efforts. As such, the younger generation often looks up to the 67-year-old for lessons to make it big in life; and he made sure to give the same when he delivered a commencement speech at Northern Arizona University. “As I prepared for today, I thought about how you, as new graduates, can have the biggest impact on the world with the education you received here. That led me to think about the graduation I never had, the commencement speech I never heard, and the advice I wasn’t given on a day just like this one,” he said.

As such, Gates shared five things with the batch of 2023 which he wishes he was told at the graduation he never attended as he dropped out of college after three semesters to start Microsoft.

He told students that their lives aren’t one-act plays. “You probably feel a lot of pressure right now to make the right decisions about your career. It might feel like those decisions are permanent. They’re not. What you do tomorrow — or for the next 10 years — does not have to be what you do forever,” he said.

 

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