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Would you rather be smart, or beautiful? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Anticorp@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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A genie appears before you and says you must choose to be very physically attractive, but slightly below average intelligence, or very intelligent, but slightly below average attractiveness? Which would you choose, and why?

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would rather be beautiful because then I wouldn't realize everyone else around me is so unfathomably stupid.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 hours ago

My trick to coping with that has been to seek out rooms or contexts in which I'm the stupid one, relatively speaking. I sometimes struggle with insecurity when doing this (especially as a bright kid who was "a big fish in a small pond"), but I never feel happier than when I'm learning from someone knowledgeable and enthusiastic about their little weird slice of the world.