If you had to choose between being the richest, most attractive, healthiest, or most intelligent person in the world, which would you choose?

[HawkPerception]

Richest in the world

Most attractive in the world

Healthiest in the world

Most intelligent in the world

A total of 54 votes were cast: 22 girls and 32 guys. See detailed results

[TheRealPepperPotts]

So, I need to clarify, as usual :D

Do I start with who I currently am in this scenario, or do I lose everything and start from zero in each category?

What defines richest? Monetarily rich? Socially rich? Rich in family and land?

What defines attractive? Physical beauty, or magnetic, personality attraction?

What defines healthiest? Physically, mentally, spiritually, relationally?

And what defines intelligence? What category? Like a polymath, or a specific intellectual strength such as reasoning, mathematical, and abstract analysis? What about emotional intelligence?

I am not trying to make this harder than it is, I promise!

[HawkPerception]

Haha, nah I love the way you break it all down into smaller parts. If I had to guess, you might be an INTJ personality type. Don't quote me on that.

It's not necessarily starting from zero, but you can only have one of these aspects in your life. So kind've starting from zero? This is just to zone in on what you value most in your life.

We're talking about rich in terms of financial wealth.

We're talking about attractive as in physical beauty/attraction level.

Healthy in terms of both physical and mental state. I believe they go hand in hand most of the time.

Intelligence in terms of how quickly you grasp concepts, all parts of your brain... emotional, arithmetic, spatial sense, communication... you name it... everything.

[TheRealPepperPotts]

@HawkPerception Yes, I scored INTJ on the MB. Have you been reading my opinions? :D But I promise I am not out to take over the world...

OK, I will need to think about it. Starting from today as I am, but I can only choose one...

[TheRealPepperPotts]

@HawkPerception This should entertain you...
http://www.intjvision.com/intj-female/

[HawkPerception]

@TheRealPepperPotts I have read a lot of your opinions, but I haven't seen anything related to MBTI haha.

Believe it or not, I'm actually pretty good at guessing people's MBTI. I actually have a bar trick where I go in and ask people if they're cool with me guessing people's personality and MBTI based on their appearance alone. Almost every time I've gotten it right. My friend actually asked me to do it with celebrities and movie characters and about 90% of the time I'd get it right 😂

[HawkPerception]

So I read it, and I'd say based on all the opinions I've read and the vibes I get from you, it sounds pretty bang on.

[TheRealPepperPotts]

@HawkPerception Well, you may have found your calling in life! :D That's a great ability to have, although it could be distracting.

There was another question about what wishes we'd choose from the genii, and I am still thinking about it, LOL. I've got to sign off for the night, but I'm going to think about this one, too. :)

[HawkPerception]

@TheRealPepperPotts always love the way you think and deeply ponder questions. Looking forward to your answer. Night Ms. Potts!

[TheRealPepperPotts]

@HawkPerception
I am content with my intelligence, and being the most intelligent person in the world could be a very lonely thing, because we'd be so far advanced beyond everyone else. If you know the best solution and method for everything with no need for collaboration with anyone else, how awful it might be to have nothing to learn from anyone?

Like anyone else, I have things I wish I could change about my appearance, but I am content with it. Being the most beautiful in the world is like being a rare trophy, and one would be hunted constantly, and then held up as a prize by the one who "bagged" them.

I can imagine once the status of being the richest person was attained, it would feel empty in many ways. "Humans are built to walk uphill... it's from the uphill climb that we derive our value" (Jordan Peterson). If our only purpose in life is continued acquisition, how boring and meaningless that might feel! Anything in the world at our fingertips, but how can we possibly feel secure, knowing we are valued solely based on our net worth? I am content with my net worth, and have no need to be fabulously wealthy, except possibly to impact more people for good.

So, for me, the only thing left to choose is health. I live with an autoimmune disease, so I have great appreciation for health. I cannot do all that I would like, and my illness is always in the back of my mind, even when it isn't active. To be able to have perfect health would be a tremendous gift. It was my first thought, but I like to examine every angle. :)

[HawkPerception]

Ah, I'm really sorry to hear that 😔 Such a sweet girl like you deserves the best health. I guess if there is a god out there, it's just their way of saying "You can't have everything in life". I don't know you in person, but you're intelligent, supposedly doing pretty well in terms of financial stability, and very likely physically attractive. Guess you had to have one taken away 😅

But there is a saying. If you could have $1 billion but you didn't wake up tomorrow, would you do it? The answer is obvious. And you can compare it to intelligence or physical attraction too. It doesn't matter. But our health and our ability to get up the next day is more valuable to us than anything in life. So I feel that the people that chose health are the most intelligent. Just my take on it.

[TheRealPepperPotts]

@HawkPerception Thank you. It's grown me in ways I don't think I would have if I had had it all, so to speak! :) I have more compassion for people than I used to before I got sick. I'm not wealthy by any stretch, but I am content with my life. I've never really thought I was pretty, but I clean up OK. Thanks for the compliment!

[HawkPerception]

I'll add humble to that list

[TheRealPepperPotts]

@HawkPerception I'm being honest!!! :D

[SeriouslyNotSerious]

Healthiest in the world. Health is wealth. 😄

[MisterWack]

Richest so I could lobby the government to get lobbying out of government. Since I’d be the richest forever I could spend infinite money.
Being healthiest and keeping the title would mean everyone is less healthy by comparison which means if I eat unhealthy everyone else eats unhealthy.
I don't know just my philosophy.

[exitseven]

Healthiest because if you are not healthy the rest of it is all just crap.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO

[AviatorTom]

Richest... I can buy the others for myself or my minions that work for me. 🙈🙊🙉

[JosyJosy]

Richest. It could help my health by getting the best treatment. I don't care about if someone finds me attractive or not. I won't be the most intelligent but I'd be able to hire the best of the best for whatever material I want to learn. And I could use that money to change the world for the better.

[HawkPerception]

Nope. Many illnesses in the world are not curable. And the question is hypothetical, where you can only have one and not the others. No trying to be smart about the question. It's one choice.

[JosyJosy]

I said help, not cure

[JosyJosy]

It's just that money gives access to a lot of things.

[HawkPerception]

Again it's a hypothetical question where you can have only one.

[JosyJosy]

Well yeah. Money. Money won't make me smarter or make me healthy. It just makes things easier.

[alice55]

Healthiest in the world, I don't want to suffer neither die young and being the healthier suggest that I'm not too well off in terms of money cause you can't be the healthier by eating shitty food or living in shitty building.

[HawkPerception]

Intelligent answer

[alice55]

Thanks ^^

[loveslongnails]

I would never want to be the richest. You'd have to keep security around you at all times and be watching your back constantly. You're nothing without your health or intelligence though, however, if you're stupid, you really don't know you are anyway. LOL

[IslaTheWitch]

definitely the healthiest... with good health and average rest I can achieve a lot...

[RingOfFire]

This is a great question. I truly cannot decide because all of them are valuable.

So I guess I would have to go with Hesiod, and my answer would be that I would want to be all of them in moderation since you cannot devote everything to one category without taking something away from another.

[Iron_Man]

None because you could be rich and lonely and ugly as heck and weak and dumb an unwanted man. Healthy means you could be flat broke with no money and homeless how long are you gonna be healthy being homeless? What does good looking get you if you’re not healthy and without any money. That only works for women. Intelligent means you could be the biggest geek nerd known to mankind and still unwanted man

[HawkPerception]

The question was phrased if you HAD TO. Not if you WANT TO.

Let me rephrase. If you had to choose one of them or you died, which would it be?

[Iron_Man]

Once again none at all. There is a price to pay by leaving others out. And to head down a bad Avenue by choosing the other one over the rest. I would rather have the total package. You could be a billionaire and look like the elephant man and be alone for the rest of your life or somebody might marry you for your money, but they would never kiss you or have sex with you. They would just wait for you to die. And who he wants a wife like that

[strateguy632]

richest, my intelligence doesn't lead to anything.

i can't pay for food with iq scores!

[genericname85]

if you're the most intelligent you're not gonna be poor and you have a really low chance of being sick as well. but then again you're gonna be happiest if you're attractive as fuck xD

[HawkPerception]

I disagree with that wholeheartedly. There are a lot of intelligent people out there that are not rich and some that are even living in poverty. Some of life is about circumstances, opportunity, and how well you socialize.

And there are plenty of attractive people that are not happy at all.

[genericname85]

you're using outliers to argue against averages. if you do that, no percievable statement can ever be true, cause you can always do that. find the one example where a general truth doesn't apply and then say that the general truth can't exist. that's nonsense.

[genericname85]

it would be EXTREMELY unlikely to be super smart and poor. and this question was about choices. i could choose to be dumb and be pretty much be guaratneed to be poor, but then you'd make the argument "but you could win the lottery and be rich". see how that sort of arguing is pointless?

[DeeDeeDeVour]

Abundant Wealth, when used properly, can help me attain the rest.

[HawkPerception]

The question implied only one though. You can argue that intelligence can attain extreme wealth as well, but you have to assume you can't have it.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

I already have the intelligence which I will rely on to expand my riches which may include further advances in education to keep the success rolling while buying the best provisions to ensure staying healthy and attractive. ;)

[HawkPerception]

Yeah you're not getting the question. It's more like starting from point 0.

[electromagnetic]

I’ll take the coin please. It’ll fix a lot of those other bits.

[PeachyPie93]

Richest, since everything else is buyable even health lol

[Alex-Snow]

I'll take health any day

[HawkPerception]

Smart dude

[DarkLegacy]

I would say most intelligent in the world but seeing as that is me i will choose the richest

[4ngelic]

the hottest or richest

[Princesspd]

Wealth

[Charliefretz329]

Intelligence is the most powerful

[Vegasrunner]

Richest

[Dongie]

Healthy.