IS THE BEAUTY AN IMPORTANT FACTOR TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE?

The physical appearance is one of the main problems in people’s life everyday. We pass a considerable part of the day seeing our hair, our face, maybe if we are well dressed. But that love to our physical appearance has passed of being a simple part of our routine to become an important requirement in life and, even more, in an important factor to be successful.

According to an article published on The Economist, beauty has become in an important factor to be successful at getting a job even if this characteristic (to be beautiful) is not a real requirement.

In fact, many people judge others by their physical appearance. To illustrate, if we are going to work we put on a nice shirt, a smoking or just the appropriate clothes for the occasion. That is why the way we look influences the idea other peoples do about us.

Doing an analogy, when we are going to buy fruits we do not choose the ugly ones; we take to home the ones that seems to be better than the others, which apparently are well colored and have a nice aspect. Those are the characteristics that let us think, “These are better”.

Actually that is exactly what happens with us. In many cases we select people by their physical appearance.

I cannot judge this conception because we have learnt to value the exterior beauty of people. To the point that it let us make judgments about the way they are.

Even thought our organism evaluates others doing a kind scanning like in the case of women, if they have big hips and big breast we, unconsciously, think they can be good mothers, and that they has all the requirements to be successful at raising babies.

Then that perception is modified and materialized in our contemporaneous world and makes the women who have that requirements be more successful than the ones who do not have them.

Is that the world we want? Where physical appearance is even more important that all the knowledge a person can have.

So, what we should do is to start to construct a more equitable society to try to eliminate some paradigms. In addition, we should fight for a tolerant world where people do not be evaluated according to beauty canons that just leave as result, thousand and thousand of peoples who die in plastic surgeries or because they become anorexic or bulimic.

That is why now after I hope you want not to pay that price to become successful in life.