WHY ARE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE MORE SUCCESSFUL?
Is the quest to look good vain, or is it natural when done in context?
In the past we have received mail from readers regarding the fact that we promote "looking good" and they felt that looking good and being attractive is counter-productive to their religion and is the maxim of vanity.
Just to place this in context - we do not promote the idea that physical beauty is more important than building on your inner beauty or soul, and being a good person - but your external looks unfortunately are also of importance in our modern day life.
Modern day society demands that we look our best and surveys and studies have shown that good looking people normally have better jobs and are paid more than their less attractive counterparts.
After we have calmed down and worked through the morals of these statistics, we may want to have a look at this phenomenon in another perspective.
Good-looking people are naturally more confident than less attractive people, not because they are simply more attractive, but because we as a society have empowered them to be more confident since they were young.
If you take a less attractive person, and bolster them with real confidence over a period of time, would they also then result in having a better job and pay?
I personally think that the answer would be yes - since I do not think that it is the physical beauty alone that people find appealing and attractive, but the sure-footedness that comes from having enough confidence to run your life.
Have you ever met a person that is not stunningly beautiful nor drop-dead gorgeous, yet through their confident manner and sparkling personality they come across as far more attractive than what they really are.
This is where good grooming can give a person that extra boost, since self-confidence increases when you are assured of the fact that you are looking the best you possibly can, and that every snag and chip has been polished away and you can show the world that you have enough self esteem to see your personal grooming and looks as important.
So, my premise would be that if you take a moderately less attractive, or very normal looking person, and you make sure that they process real deep seated confidence and make sure that their physical and physiological grooming is faultless, they will go through a metamorphosis like the duckling to the swan.
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