Would You Rather Be 30% Smarter or 90% More Attractive?
Church of Lazlo Podcasts
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🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, you're good looking son of a bitch. Oh, well, thank you. Appreciate that. You know, I don't know if you saw but those thing going on on Twitter and read it this weekend, people were discussing whether or not you'd rather be 30% smarter or 90% more attractive. |
| 0:18.0 | 30% smarter or 90% more attractive. Now there are, you know, a lot of things that you have to consider when you're trying to make this hypothetical decision. Right. |
| 0:28.0 | First of all, I saw a lot of people talking about, you know, saying, I'm already fairly intelligent or I'm somewhat intelligent already and you think, okay, well, how do you know? |
| 0:35.0 | You know, you said, I guess you can look at your grades. You got good grades. I can judge myself against the people I'm around. Right, right. |
| 0:43.0 | But I don't know that 30% smarter would make me more successful. Right. Well, I feel like I'm fairly smart. And so what would 30% smarter do for me? That's a question. Right. But 90% more attractive is a game changer. Yes. |
| 1:01.0 | We're 30% more smart. Is that really a game? I'm already I shouldn't say I think I'm I'm smart enough. I'm not the smartest guy in the room. I'm smart enough. I'm not confused. Sure. Right. |
| 1:11.0 | But 90% more attractive is a literal game changer. But one of the things to consider that people were bringing up is the intelligence could last hopefully a long time. |
| 1:24.0 | The attractiveness will fade over. But I'm 90% attractive the entire time in my life. 90% more attractive every day. Well, yeah, that's a big deal. Yeah. So you're 90% more attractive than you would have been at 70. Right. Exactly. That's a huge deal. Yeah. |
| 1:39.0 | So I lean 30% smarter is, you know, it is what it is. If you told me it was 90% smarter or 90% more attractive, then there's a discussion. But 30% smarter isn't I just don't think it's a game changer. Unless you're slightly dumb. Right, which if you're like I'm confused a lot at dinner parties. |
| 2:00.0 | They're like, well, 30% smarter or if I mean, even if you're super hot, you're like 90% hotter. I'm already the hottest person here. 90% more hot, please. |
| 2:12.0 | Like it's just more important. Well, as long as you're not dumb, if you're dumb, if you can have some stuff awareness and be like, I'm dumb. Yeah, then 30% more smart could help you. Well, it's like, what are your goals in this? Just happiness. I assume overall, you're trying to decide which thing will make you happier. |
| 2:29.0 | Part of my thought for happiness is which will help me be more successful. And I do think that, I mean, just initially, my thought is 90% more attractive. It helps with success a lot, you know, it just helps with success and relationships that helps with everything. And 90% is a lot. |
| 2:47.0 | And it's a lot. That's a huge number. 30% more intelligence is not that much. Right. Well, it's really not that much. |
| 2:55.0 | You know, I guess it depends if you are on some sort of a cusp or if you think, man, there's just these little things in life that I always screw up or that he's can't seem to figure out maybe 30% would help. No, but I'm not convinced that being 30% smarter is going to make you any happier. It might make you less happy. |
| 3:09.0 | Because sometimes I see people and think that guy is so dumb. But man, is he happy? You know, it's the ignorance is bliss idea. And that sounds conceited. We hear people say that, but there is something. |
| 3:20.0 | No, sure. And is it that they're dumb or maybe not? Maybe they're just better at compartmentalizing. |
| 3:24.0 | But the numbers are too far apart. Right. But 30%. 90% of 30%. Like that number that you're giving me, like it's a discussion. Maybe 90% and 60%. |
| 3:34.0 | But, you know, if I was my intelligence now plus 60%, that's something. Yeah, I'd like some 30% I think is negligible. Like I really believe it. Like it's negligible. I get it. I smart. |
| 3:47.0 | But doesn't make me, you know, a genius. It doesn't like, you know, it doesn't, but 90% hotter is a big deal. 30% for where I'm at. I'm not very smart. So you had 30%, you know, |
| 4:01.0 | I mean, my cab grows a little, right. And I'm better at, you know, doing math in my head, maybe who cares? |
| 4:07.0 | I can figure out, you know, what these numbers are. Some math in your hand, you know, what can I do? It's fine. Nobody looks at you and says that guy's dumb. So take the hotness. |
| 4:16.0 | Yeah. That guy is dumb. You are dumb. Yeah. Then maybe the 30% helps. But even then, I think, well, does it make me smart 30%? No, but 90% hotter makes me hot. |
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