Silicon Valley is known for this cliche every time you turn and look at what made so and so successful.
I have a confession to make. There are more stupid people on the planet than smart people, present company included.
To accomplish said surroundings you have to know what constitutes surroundable smartness. This is no easy task esp if majority of the surroundings include the sound of dumbness. It is like trying to break out of the earth's gravitational pull to find a true vacuum. Or perhaps that is mixing the metaphors, but hey I did not say I was smart.
No one seems to acknowledge (mostly) that it was dumb luck that got someone to where they were starting with their birth. Accidents happen and sometimes they are great.
No downplaying the use of elbow grease (another condiment available in the USofA) or perseverance. Yet, another category of surroundings that can help one's chance at success is the influential variety.
So there is something genetic about a person's make up that can set you in influential company that trumps all the Estee Lauder you can apply. Then comes Estee Lauder to boot.
Being good looking either through genetic arrangement or by copious and sensible use of potions and amalgams on the exterior certainly can do its part to appear worthy of inclusion in the smartness or influencer club.
Smart people also like vanity to surround themselves lest they get whacked out of orbit by sheer axiomatic excitement.
So moral of this orbital theory is that either be the orbiting smart pants or be the dumb yet beautiful nucleus that the smart electrons want to orbit around and you will find lasting enjointment.
Our first foray into Central America. That elongated isthmus that forms the geographic boundary between two vast continents of North and South America. Specifically landing for NYE 2026 in San Jose, Costa Rica. Capital city for this region that does not have its own army, instead relying on its big bro the Estados Unidos to the north is a metropolis of approx. 500K people. Largely wilderness and with both a Pacific and Carribean/Atlantic coast the country is rich in bio diversity. In Spanish it means the rich coast so named by Columbus landing in early 16th century and being mesmerized by the local tribes sporting gold jewelry. Our stay included visiting the foothills of a large strato volcano called Arenal and enjoying the naturally heated thermal baths for a while. Lunching amidst lush forest and watching indigenous species of avian noise makers fly overhead. Toucans, some sort of pea hens, multiple song bird species completed the spectacle. Iguanas and a lonel...
If you are smart enough to find smart people who will surround you, you can't be too dumb. I personally prefer the theory about surrounding yourself with dumb people so they make you look smart. Look at heroines in Hindi films- where would they be without dozens of ugly surrounders?
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