Anonymous
Post 06/09/2022 14:37     Subject: Re:If you could be more attractive or more intelligent, but not both, which would you choose?
More attractive, because I'm already smarter than most people. But I'm not that attractive, alas.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2022 14:37     Subject: Re:If you could be more attractive or more intelligent, but not both, which would you choose?
I'm not the sharpest pencil in the box, but honestly, I'm cool with who I am on the inside - I'll take hot any day!
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2022 14:35     Subject: Re:If you could be more attractive or more intelligent, but not both, which would you choose?
Neither. I would want more capacity to be content with what I have and cherish the present.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2022 14:35     Subject: Re:If you could be more attractive or more intelligent, but not both, which would you choose?
Another vote for attractive.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2022 14:34     Subject: Re:If you could be more attractive or more intelligent, but not both, which would you choose?
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Anonymous wrote:More attractive. I am highly intelligent, but have lost much of my youthful good looks.


This. I was an 8. Now I’m a 4 at best. Seriously have not she’d well at all. Generally I’d choose intelligence over looks though. It’s just that I have plenty of the former and none of the latter.

But you can fix "ugly" with a huge makeover, maybe even plastic surgery. Harder to fix "stupid".


Agree, which is why I said I would generally choose intelligence over beauty. But I am very smart already. And also pretty ugly. A lot of it is weight and I bust my ass to lose 5-10 pounds and then gain it back. What I really need is willpower to eat less.

Yes, so it depends on how "smart" and successful you are.

If you have $$$, you can get plastic surgery, hire a personal trainer, etc.. If you are reasonably intelligent, but don't have a lot of $$, but if you were "smarter" you could make more.

If you are more attractive, that might mean you can find a rich man, but IMO, I'd rather make the money myself, and then buy myself a boy toy in my old age


Smarter doesn’t mean you can get more money! Some of the dumbest people have high salaries.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2022 14:32     Subject: Re:If you could be more attractive or more intelligent, but not both, which would you choose?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:More attractive. I am highly intelligent, but have lost much of my youthful good looks.


This. I was an 8. Now I’m a 4 at best. Seriously have not she’d well at all. Generally I’d choose intelligence over looks though. It’s just that I have plenty of the former and none of the latter.

But you can fix "ugly" with a huge makeover, maybe even plastic surgery. Harder to fix "stupid".


Agree, which is why I said I would generally choose intelligence over beauty. But I am very smart already. And also pretty ugly. A lot of it is weight and I bust my ass to lose 5-10 pounds and then gain it back. What I really need is willpower to eat less.

Yes, so it depends on how "smart" and successful you are.

If you have $$$, you can get plastic surgery, hire a personal trainer, etc.. If you are reasonably intelligent, but don't have a lot of $$, but if you were "smarter" you could make more.

If you are more attractive, that might mean you can find a rich man, but IMO, I'd rather make the money myself, and then buy myself a boy toy in my old age
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2022 14:28     Subject: If you could be more attractive or more intelligent, but not both, which would you choose?
Can I choose higher EQ?
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2022 14:20     Subject: Re:If you could be more attractive or more intelligent, but not both, which would you choose?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:More attractive. I am highly intelligent, but have lost much of my youthful good looks.


This. I was an 8. Now I’m a 4 at best. Seriously have not she’d well at all. Generally I’d choose intelligence over looks though. It’s just that I have plenty of the former and none of the latter.

But you can fix "ugly" with a huge makeover, maybe even plastic surgery. Harder to fix "stupid".


Agree, which is why I said I would generally choose intelligence over beauty. But I am very smart already. And also pretty ugly. A lot of it is weight and I bust my ass to lose 5-10 pounds and then gain it back. What I really need is willpower to eat less.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2022 13:47     Subject: If you could be more attractive or more intelligent, but not both, which would you choose?
Does a sharp brain = intelligent? Because I feel like I’m intelligent—I can speak eloquently on a large breadth of topics, I ask intelligent questions, I can synthesize information from different sources, and I can remember things I learned decades ago. But my brain is also a little friend and I forget multiple times a day what I’m supposed to be doing. Like, you know, getting dinner ready before I have a crisis on my hands.

I’d get substantially uglier to get rid of the brain fog. But if wr are talking about IQ, I’d go for hotter.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2022 13:42     Subject: If you could be more attractive or more intelligent, but not both, which would you choose?
I think I'm already very intelligent not to sound stuck up but I do but I could really use some help in the looks department, not all my fault as I have a autoimmune disease and medical conditions that really did a number on me physically.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2022 13:34     Subject: If you could be more attractive or more intelligent, but not both, which would you choose?
More attractive. I’m fairly intelligent already.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2022 13:33     Subject: If you could be more attractive or more intelligent, but not both, which would you choose?
Can I be effortlessly skinny and in perfect health ?
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2022 13:32     Subject: If you could be more attractive or more intelligent, but not both, which would you choose?
I’d like more executive function; then intelligence before looks.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2022 13:30     Subject: Re:If you could be more attractive or more intelligent, but not both, which would you choose?
Anonymous wrote:I get to keep my current level of intelligence? More attractive, no question.


Definitely plus one here. I already make a lot of money and do well professionally. Would be nice to be a show stopper. Attractive people make more money anyway.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2022 13:29     Subject: If you could be more attractive or more intelligent, but not both, which would you choose?
I would have answered differently in my 20s but now that I'm in my 40s, mom brain and utter burnout have done a number on me and I feel like I'm a big faker at work who can't put two words together articulately. My husband still finds me attractive and my clothes still fit so I would choose intelligence. Attractiveness eventually fades with old age anyway, even for the people who start off as 10s.