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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D+1" data-source="post: 1779120" data-attributes="member: 13654">Charisma.Intelligence is a trap.  It doesn't actually gain you much except a life of GREATLY increased frustration with the stupidity of everyone around you.  Unless you're keen on living a life obsessed with your own thoughts, pass on that.Wisdom is similar.  You can understand the universe but you still have to live in Hometown, USA (or wherever).  Understanding does not bring you a life of peace and fulfillment.Charisma seems to be the answer so long as you also have ADEQUATE levels of intelligence and wisdom.  - Not HIGH levels of int/wis, just adequate. - The reasoning for that goes thusly:  It is too often the highly intelligent people in the world who manage to convince everyone of the STUPIDEST ideas that defy human nature and create the most horrific hardships and damage.  Intelligent people too often seem to feel that because they think they know the right way to go about things that they can FORCE everyone to do what they think they ought to do.  Intelligence without wisdom.Wisdom without intelligence is little better because you're going to life a highly enlightened life that is worthless for the rest of humanity.  A monk or guru meditating on a mountaintop.But with charisma you can LEAD others, either directly or by example, to a life that is not Utopian - but is at least a little better than before.  You can make the world a better place simply by being the kind of person that people want to have around, want to listen to, want to emulate.</blockquote>

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