Emotional stability and intelligence would give lots of money. Which you could use to get plastic surgery.

Some emotional instabilities dont fix with popping pills. In some cases there arnt any pills to pop, only thing they can do with you is keep you drugged and locked up. What good would that do? You can be smart and good looking all you want in that small cell at the insane asylum!

I assume you would be very stressed and anxious all day long, you could be popping xanex all day long but how much focus can you actually keep on those pills? Could you actually do anything with that intelligence? (If you picked GL and Intel)

Kinda depends on the severity of the emotional stability, if its very severe I doubt you could do anything productive with the intelligence.

Dr. Fröken Drr @ 1/5/2013 10:34

Why do you assume being smart and emotionally stable will make you automatically rich?

I am kinda assuming you would be "best" in the two things you pick and "worst" in the one you dont in this poll. Maybe too extreme but the severity isnt really specified in the poll.

Incredibly smart, incredibly good looking, very emotionally instable
Incredibly smart, very emotionally stable, very ugly
Very emotionally stable, incredibly good lucking, dumb as fuck

Lets say you are top 5 in the ones you pick and bottom 5 in the one you dont. If you pick a professions like business, computer science, math, physics etc etc you MUST be making big bucks if you are top 5 right?

If you are a really smart business man you WILL get rich. Making good investments = lot of cash.

In computer science, being in the top 5 bracket you would probably be working on something cutting edge. Something new that would change the world. So if you get the right idea and implement said idea correctly you are going to get very very rich. Google, Facebook and other huge companies would also probably be willing to pay a lot of money to have the top 5 working for them.

How much would NASA pay to have the best physicist / mathematician in the world? There are probably a lot of companies out there aswell that would pay a lot of money to have the best mathematician working for them. You could probably pay rent at least.

Good looks fade away with age. Emotional instability will follow you to your grave, especially if its a very severe one. Like I said earlier, the shrinks might think it best for society to lock your coocoo ass in some asylum ;)

Kiwi @ 1/5/2013 11:03

Perhaps a better way to look at it is top 25% in the world/bottom 25% for the other. Question doesn't say you are at the top.

I said it was extreme :P

I still maintain that even being in the top 25% of business, CS, math, physics and other select profressions will get you a lot of cash.

Boc @ 1/5/2013 13:52

Ari do you ACTUALLY think plastic surgery is a viable solution for good looks? And I'm sensing a pattern here. Every answer of Ari's in these polls has to do with attaining wealth and power, rather than happiness (:

Too some extent. The best of the best are probably pretty good at fixing fucked up stuff :D

Emotional stability will provide happiness ;)

At least more of it than without it

Rob @ 1/5/2013 14:39

Ari @ 1/5/2013 13:59 Boc @ 1/5/2013 13:52 Ari do you ACTUALLY think plastic surgery is a viable solution for good looks? Too some extent. The best of the best are probably pretty good at fixing fucked up stuff :D False. Joan Rivers.

Maybe she had shit surgeons

Dr. Fröken Drr @ 1/5/2013 15:12

Top 25% in intelligence doesn't make you the top 25% in business, CS, math, physics or other select professions. Top 25% isn't that great at all. You still have to work for what you want! This poll does not make you the magical super-brain that magically acquires wealth just by sitting there. It just makes you above average.

No one said anything about just sitting and doing nothing. I thought it was obvious that you would have to work to get paid, probably working very crazy and unmanageable hours. Being better than everyone else at something would make employers want to attract you to their company with high salaries. You would have to work hard to maintain that.

Curtis never said how smart, how good looking or how emotionally stable. He never said above average he just said intelligent. The difference between picking intelligence in the poll shouldnt be set between "above average" and "below average", there can be a very small difference between the lowest above average and the highest below average. Like with IQ, is there really much difference between someone scoring 99 and someone scoring 101?

So I was just pointing out the extreme cases, so you would actually feel the distinct difference in your choices.

Maybe Curtis should just be more specific :p