Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-status

Re:Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-st... by lftl on Friday October 23, 2020 @01:47PM (#24871984)

I think attractiveness confounds a comparison between Brad Pitt/Leonardo DiCaprio with Zuckerberg, Bezos and Gates. Is there an actor who isn't considered highly attractive that you think the average person would hold in significantly higher regard than successful tech entrepreneurs?

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Re:Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-st... by User23 on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:18PM (#24872268)

Jack Nicholson comes to mind. And Mick Jagger is ugly as sin and that doesn’t hurt his status.

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Re:Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-st... by jdmoreira on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:26PM (#24872339)

I'm sorry but none of them are even remotely classifiable as ugly. Have you seen photos of younger Mick Jagger?

Young Mick Jagger could be a successful female model in 2020

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Re:Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-st... by User23 on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:43PM (#24876220)

It's interesting you should mention that, because successful female models are orders of magnitude lower status today than they were 25 years ago. Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford, and Tyra Banks, to name a few, were massively high status, on the level of professional athletes and movie stars. Nowadays, not so much.

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Re:Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-st... by dragonwriter on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:40PM (#24876505)

> because successful female models are orders of magnitude lower status today than they were 25 years ago.

No, they aren't.

> Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford, and Tyra Banks, to name a few, were massively high status, on the level of professional athletes and movie stars.

So are Chrissy Teigen, Bella and Gigi Hadid now. Kendall Jenner, too, though more in the style of an athlete that is an massive on-the-field standout that takes every opportunity to generate negative attention off the field.

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Re:Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-st... by larrik on Friday October 23, 2020 @02:27PM (#24872352)

Tom Hanks?

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