A brainy or a loving person? What are you?

@Jacruz25 (1124)
Philippines
January 21, 2012 10:48am CST
If you were to live a again which one would you chose a very intelligent person who is not caring or a loving and thoughtful person who has an average IQ? Some leaders of the government maybe very intelligent but they lack the heart and all they care is only their self and their family. I think a good leader isn't the one who has the brains but the one who has love to his people.
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16 responses
@SinfulRose (3527)
• Davao, Philippines
21 Jan 12
"If you settle for an average IQ, you'll only really stay that way. We are the only ones who puts limits unto ourselves. It's only up to you to choose whether to push to your best or stay where you are." A very important person once told me this. It merely means that we are capable of limitless potential. Put a limit to that and you're merely limiting yourself that way. But to answer your question, I would choose the uncaring very intelligent person. Don't worry I won't become a government person when that time comes so you're safe. lol
@Jacruz25 (1124)
• Philippines
22 Jan 12
Sure to be a very intelligent person is great but at my age and through experience I realized that it's not the brain that matters the most it is the heart. I can say that a kind heart is heavier than an intelligent brain.
@much2say (53907)
• Los Angeles, California
21 Jan 12
I'd go for the loving and thoughtful person who has an average IQ (just as I am now - ha ha). Having great intelligence is one thing, but if you have no love or passion for anything, how can you possibly be happy with anything in life? Yep, a good balance of the two would be most preferable.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
21 Jan 12
much2say but I know many doctors and nurses who are intelligent and caring so to say you cannot be both is simpley not true, this m akes me angry as I am a very caring person and yet I have a high IQ so that makes me uncaring? wrong damned wrong. I worked in caring professions all my life. And was married and loved my hubby to piece and now widowed and still miss him. I do care about others and love my fellow men too.
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
21 Jan 12
In this life I did not find out yet that a loving and thoughtful person is respected and loved. These kind of people are only attracting abusers. This is what happens to me already since years. So if I really need to have an other life I want to be that very intelligent person who doesn't care. It must be great not to care about others.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
21 Jan 12
hi I really do not think a very intelligent person is intelligent if he or she does not care and love other people . I am intelligent but I do care about others and all my working years I worked in caring professions so caring and brains can coexist.
@boyuancy (1708)
• India
21 Jan 12
When I was a little smaller, I imagined myself as a very sensitive and caring guy. But as I;m growing up, I have faced so much that I'm turning cold and cruel and selfish everyday. I would definitely want to be the loving guy I was, but now, I just don't feel like. I'm self centered, selfish, and want to live for myself.
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• Nigeria
21 Jan 12
been intelligent but not a loving one, not caring about others is useless, what is the usefulness of intelligent, money, and properties without other people being gaining from it. in the other way round, intelligent is essential to all human, without been intelligent, u get duped and cheated by other intelligent fellow, u will get ride of ur right. i prefer 2 choose loving and thoughtful person who has an average IQ, since it is not totally dull, since i would be able 2 think for my self and the benefit of others. even i have IQ than the intelligent person dat do not care and love other, don't u no that such person is fool indirectly, since he think for himself only. even i an average IQ is wiser than such fellow, 'cos i will not let other to fall. i think my explanation preferable? thanks.
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@angelako (280)
• Italy
21 Jan 12
I will prefer a loving person,in this way I can have more friends,people will do the same way with me,i will be remembered the way i want to be.They will remembered me with love.But if I can have both I rather want to have brain too and a loving one.Brain is also important to a person.because when you are intelligent people respect you more and look at you with respect.But either of this,you can still be rembered to be a good person if we used this quality in good ways.
@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
23 Jan 12
Hi Jacruz! If I were to live again, I would choose to be a loving person. I think a loving person's life is easier and simpler than that of a brainy person. If you are loving, you have trust on people and you just sincerely want your loved ones to be happy. If you're a genius, you'd want something better always, you'd think you always deserve something better and you always work to achieve for more. I think that's a tiring life. It's easier to love and to be loved.
• Philippines
22 Jan 12
If I were to live again I would choose to be intelligent rather than a emotional person. I am not saying that being emotional, caring and loving is a bad thing. However just those emotions make it sometimes like roller coaster with its ups and downs. Being intelligent does not mean you would become a bad leader. I believe a true intelligent leader would be someone who would be able to solve the communities problem without sacrificing the happiness of it's people. This is just my opinion however.
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
22 Jan 12
Like many others who responded, I would love to live again on a body of a loving and thoughtful person even with just an average IQ. Yes I would have to agree with you that a good leader are not those brainy ones because they have no heart (well, at least most of them).
@cttolledo (5460)
• Legaspi, Philippines
22 Jan 12
But as far as i know we already tried to have both hehehe.. but to no effect!
• India
27 Jan 12
I am brainy with that who seems not loving and am loving with a loved one. However, loving and brainy can be the same person from time to time.
• India
22 Jan 12
I m quite loving n quite brainy person........... But more i possesive person.
21 Jan 12
I want to be intelligent, being a loving person is more difficult. I'd rather make intelligent choices than emotional ones coz in the end, they'll hurt you more.
@azfarali (25)
21 Jan 12
i am a loving person
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
21 Jan 12
hi jacruz and whatever makes you think a brainy person cannot also be loving and caring. I have an IQ of 140 and wor ked for years in the caring loving professions as a nurse's aide. if you were not loving and caring you made a rotten nurse's aide or even nurse. I disagree that if you are intelligent you are not loving, thats just plain not true. Some brainy people might not be loving but all that I have knowin are genuine caring and loving people. this is a big falsehood. I am a brainy caring person, how about you?
@bjc66bjc (6730)
• United States
22 Jan 12
Hi Jacruz, I am an intelligent person who cares about others..I can't conceive being intelligent and not care for others...and intelligent person is a thoughtful person... The meaning of intelligent is the capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity, a manifestation of a high mental capacity, so with that meaning you would also require an average IQ...you don't have to be a genious to thoughtful and respectful..How can a brainless person love anyone even himself???