Advice gathered from people smarter than me
> There’s no good reason to believe that someone extremely attractive would be a great conversationalist, or that someone extremely intelligent would be emotionally intelligent, etcetera.<p>I actually disagree. At the extremes, sure. The top athlete is unlikely to be the top scholar or conversationalist. But I believe health, beauty, EQ and IQ are all correlated. These traits all likely have some shared genetic components. And a great, healthy childhood will augment all these traits to some extent.<p>Also, beautiful people are less likely to experience social isolation or estrangement, which would otherwise hurt EQ and health in general.<p>From another angle, experiences that leave emotional scars will often have physical manifestations, and vice versa.<p>That said, we may subconsciously assume a higher correlation than exists between these traits, so directionally the author may be correct.<p>None of this is fair or desirable, by the way.