Be Glad You Aren’t Too Beautiful, Too Smart, or Too Rich

The downsides to being extremely beautiful, intelligent or wealthy might make you grateful you’re just Joe or Jane Average.

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Have you noticed that some people seem to lead lives more charmed than the rest of us? If you take a closer look at those reaping the lion’s share of life’s temporal goodies, you’ll notice they’re either much better looking, much smarter, or much wealthier than you.

There’s the über hot Hollywood A-lister, or your model friend whose company automatically renders you invisible to the opposite sex. There’s the multi-talented, brainy whiz kid at work who not only got the promotion you wanted, but has also written a book, designed a game-changing app, and been nominated for the Nobel prize. And there are the Bill Gates and Warren Buffets of the world, or perhaps your cousins who only travel first class and drop tips so big, you feel like a schmuck for leaving the waitress only a fiver. These are the types of people we normies love to hate, but long to be.

Virtues like kindness, patience, honesty, fortitude et cetera, et cetera, are all well and good to have of course, but when it comes to traits that give one a leg-up in the world, few things beat beauty, intellect, and a talent for making vast amounts of money.