Is there anything better than being born beautiful?

wow, that's actually impressive. he IS symmetrical - well, way more than most people.

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It sure doesn't hurt to appreciate beauty--send round a Denzel photo anytime at all.

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I'd rather talk to Denzel than look at him.
Course I might sneak a peak or two.

Ordinary looks + musical ability or beauty?

Definitely another vote for ordinary looks + musical ability.

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Beena wrote:

sakhi wrote:
I'm with Dag too - a kind heart is what is most important...but I think of that as a necessary trait - not really as a gift we are born with

I'd choose musical talent over beauty, any day. I truly envy people who can hold an audience in thrall with their voice.

So, if you are given a choice of choosing music talent with ordinary looks or being beautiful, you would choose music talent? I don't believe you.

Of course i'd choose musical talent. Anyday. Why, given a choice between
below-average looks + musical talent
and beauty....

i'd choose below-average looks + musical talent. To me, musically gifted people seem beautiful even if they are actually downright ugly.
These people seem beautiful to me:

http://www.chembur.com/anecdotes/bhimsen2.jpg
https://www.vedamsbooks.com/images/no34124.jpg

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Then again, you can be both: beautiful and talented.
Look at Anne-Sopie Mutter

http://www.luganofestival.ch/homepage/images/anne-sophie_mutter.jpg

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Ah, yes. she is very beautiful. But her talent ensures that she remains beautiful even when she has wrinkles and no longer has that gorgeous figure....

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kermit wrote:

I guess looks are not everything but I think being good looking certainly doesn't hurt in whatever you do in life. I read a piece a while ago about how babies respond more positively to "good looking" faces (more symmetrical features) like Danzel Washington's. So to them, it's literally pleasing to the eye?

I don't think babies respond to "good looking" faces. If a person has a good looking face but is bad inside, a baby will not respond to this face. But the fact remains that loving faces usually go with people having love in their heart.

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I remember reading about baby girls focusing more on faces as opposed to boys that tended to ignore people more and showed a greater interest in the objects and environment around them. Always thought that was interesting.

Anyway, I'd definitely choose musical talent and average looks above sheer beauty. Music is inspirational, I love listening to music, choosing a certain piece to invoke or sway my current mood. Listening to the right music at the right time, with the right emotions flowing through me seems to clear my mind and I often make the most startling discoveries about myself or a problem while taking the music in.

With regards to great wealth, money can come and go, with the loss of wealth comes the loss of this kind heart/compassion and the opportunities to broaden intellect/wisdom??

Just posing the question, haven't thought about it much yet. How would the loss of wealth impact on the person inside?

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To enjoy music, you don't really have to be talented in it. Wait a minute, you just gave me an idea. You can only enjoy music truly if you're gifted somewhere in the music scene already. Nice thought for the day!

As for wealth, don't you mean money, because love can also constitute wealth. I think the loss of money impacts people in different ways, some take the loss positively and some negatively. Those who take it positively will usually end up rewarding this world in some way and those who take it negatively, usually make others around them also miserable.

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Beena wrote:

You can only enjoy music truly if you're gifted somewhere in the music scene already. Nice thought for the day!

There are millions of true music lovers who cannot sing or play a note. Sure, a musician may be able to appreciate the sheer work of another musician but I don't think you have to be a musician in order to fully enjoy music.

And that goes for art lovers, actors, doctors, architects, etc.

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I'd choose to be a beautiful woman up til age 30. Then after that a male movie star.

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All you need is intelligence, because if you have that, you can get everything else that you want, no matter how ugly you are.

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roverroad wrote:

All you need is intelligence, because if you have that, you can get everything else that you want, no matter how ugly you are.

Thats a nice theory, but I'm not sure its that easy, actually.

For example, Albert Einstein was very intelligent. But he late in his life, he said he was "really bad at relationships." Supposedly he sort of left a mini-trail of broken hearts, and was never able to have a long stable happy marriage, which he said he wanted.

Example 2: Bobby Fischer. Chess prodigy. Very intelligent. Quit the chess world, and got into arguments with almost all his business partners. Ended up going broke. Last time I heard, he runs a fairly hateful website...and is wanted by the USA.

Howard Hughes.

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Good points. I guess intelligence isn't everything. I guess it also depends on what you want. If all you want is lots of money and a floozy for each arm than intelligence helps. That is if you don't have looks and money to begin with. Heck, I have none of the above so what do I know. Laughing

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The best way to look is neither very beautiful nor very ugly so that people will focus on your conduct and creations instead of your looks.

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Yitwail, I agree with Nietzsche (the other one) that to have genius (and that means much more than a score on an IQ test) is to have a vampire constantly at one's throat.

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Notice how much more interesting is the face of asymmetrical Denzel. The other has no character.

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I don't really 'get' the large appeal towards musical talent.
Sure, it'd be cool, but ....

shrug. I'm not that impressed.

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flushd wrote:

I don't really 'get' the large appeal towards musical talent.
Sure, it'd be cool, but ....

shrug. I'm not that impressed.

i guess it's different things for different people....

The original poster was convinced beauty is the most desirable trait - not for me, though. I'm not envious of beautiful people. But i fervently wish i had a ravishing voice.

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Well, I find that just being born might cover all the territory. I almost didn't make it.

Of course, it doesn't hurt that I am beautiful, talented and intelligent. <smile>

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