Also, DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE how important it is to be good-looking.
It's an ACTIONABLE CONSTRUCT, because grooming is an Easy + 1.5 for most people.
Exercise can give you +2 to +3, Of course this one is much harder to crack.
Imagine your appearance under the best modifier, going from a 4 to an 8.5, Or you can maybe hit 9, 9.5 total with some minor cosmetic surgery. (for most people rhinoplasty)
My point is, In a world that has NO_TIME to evaluate you, where humans are really NOT_THAT_DIFFERENT from one another. This Vanity Bull**** ends up counting for ALOT.
So if you sit on your ass, eat Cholesterololo, get Ep1( Phat like TP4, It's Yous own darn fault you no haz j0b.
DehyrrrTeekkkOrrrJhrrrrbz.
There is some truth to this - some. Maybe. If there is, then it only goes so far. Sure, if you need a weather anchor, all things being equal, the more attractive person has a leg up. Although (yes I know, news bureaus aren't the same as films but I don't think I'm mixing metaphors too terribly here)... Meryl Streep isn't as attractive as Olivia Newton John or Michelle Pfiefer but M.S. is way more successful. Robin Williams certainly isn't what you would call conventionally handsome but his career was at least on par with a lady killer like George Clooney. Tom Cruise is the kind of short that would absolutely END most people and yet incredibly, incredibly successful.
So I don't know even know how much weight TP4s criticism holds, now that I think of it. But I can tell you this: if you think something's holding you back - it's your thinking that's holding you back & probably not the thing itself.
Jackie Robinson: being black was definitely a great reason to let yourself be held back in baseball when he got started. Literally, it could get you killed. Didn't hold him back. Probably because he didn't think he was going to let it hold him back.
Muhammad Ali: ditto. And to boot, having your boxing license revoked in every state that issued a boxing license is definitely a good reason to let yourself be held back. His parents were not even close to being rich though they weren't poor either.
Sandra Day O'Connor: Being a woman was a great way to let yourself think that you were going to be held back from being a Supreme Court Justice. She didn't think so. She was seated on the Court in 81', remember, 10 years before the Tailhook scandal really forced the government to BEGIN thinking about inclusion from an institutional perspective.
Thousands and thousands of southerners who did not live on plantations nor appreciate the impact that slavery had on "free" market enterprise had powerful reasons to think that it was okay to let themselves be held back.
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2018/12/21/southerner-vs-southerner-union-supporters-below-the-mason-dixon-line/But they didn't think so.
An excerpt:
"Representatives from 26 counties in East Tennessee’s mountainous, grain-growing and stock-raising region agreed to secede from Tennessee. Their petition to do so was rejected by the state legislature, and Confederate troops were sent to occupy East Tennessee to prevent its secession."
I can't imagine that this was, in any way, an easy decision for these people to make. Yada, yada, yada, .... things went from bad to worse for these people. Actively choosing to perceive the reality of slavery the way they did (in stark contrast to rest of the south) had its consequences:
"As many as 1,000 prominent and not so prominent East Tennesseans were arrested and taken to Knoxville. Five men were hanged, and 400 were imprisoned in Alabama. The number of Confederate soldiers in Knoxville quadrupled, with roughly one soldier for every man, woman, and child in the city. Wood sent squads of men door to door to confiscate firearms from the entire civilian population. "
These are some notable cases, to be sure. And sure it's easy to think, "Oh, they were just exceptional characters." Particularly if you are really looking for a way OUT or a way AROUND an ordeal. If you are looking for a way THROUGH an ordeal, though, it can be just as easy as making the choice to "think better of your fellow man."
"Mediocrity never knows anything higher than itself. Talent always recognizes genius." Arthur Conan Doyle.
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't: you're right." Henry Ford.
And can you possibly accuse Muhammad Ali of looking at the world through rose-colored glasses? ROTFLAMO, absolutely no way. I mean, NO WAY. Consider his rationale for not wanting to fight in the Vietnam War:
Speaking to a bunch of college guys who are questioning his refusal to fight in Vietnam:
"All you white boys are breaking your neck to get to Switzerland and Canada and London.... you're my opposer when I wanted freedom... you're my opposer when I want justice... you won't even stand up for me, here, in America and you want me to go fight but you won't even stand up for me here at home." FWIW, I'm not black, but I sincerely admire the hell out of Muhammad Ali and I think hearing what he had to say makes me a better person. Actively choosing how to perceive reality (it would have been waaay easier for him to perceive his reality the way most white people wanted him to perceive reality) is not same thing as the naivete of "looking at the world through rose-colored glasses," so don't let yourself fall down that rabbit hole.
So, if there was something for me to agree with in TP4's statement it would only be this: people with very poor hygiene will find it hard to find a job than people with poor hygiene. But between two people with equally bad (or good) hygiene - attitude - the way you choose to navigate reality as it unfolds - is your friend, and a powerful ally it is (I had to... I could feel that coming a mile away).