What makes someone beautiful is that they appreciate the beauty in other people without any jealousy or mimicry. A beautiful person can look at you and they actually see you, accept you, and recognize the beauty and the divine in you, which is what makes them beautiful. Their ability to be alive in that moment and appreciate what they’re seeing and sensing makes them beautiful.
That’s a big thing for me, but I think there’s a general categorization that’s even higher than that for a lot of people when they think about beauty.
They Are Genuine
A person who is authentically themselves. It means that the person is true to themselves, that their unique spirit is on display for the world because they aren’t mimicking the world. They aren’t trying to be somebody else or acting like this other person over here, they’re just them. It’s like an aliveness in the moment you can sense from it.
Every beautiful person that you think about, there’s a unique characteristic to them. It’s not just about how they do their hair or what they wear or if their makeup is perfect. It’s like there’s something about them that you’re like, “That’s a unique character. I don’t know exactly what it is but I can tell they’re genuine, alive in who they are and they’re demonstrating their unique and true spirit to the world.” That’s sexy. That’s beautiful.
They Are Interested in the World
They have lots of interests around the world and they can talk about a lot of interesting things going on in the world, in their personal life and in other people’s lives, because they’re paying attention. That’s that awareness that makes someone beautiful.
They Are Passionate about Something
They have a passion for life, for a specific topic or a specific person. There’s something that they geek out about, that they love to talk about, even if it’s something silly. It doesn’t have to be all the time where they’re fired up and gesturing and running around. They don’t have to be crazy. They have to be themselves, but they have to be so interested in something that when they convey it, it comes across as real energy.
I believe that passion attached to positive things, passion attached to things that progress humanity forward – that’s sexy.
Recap: Aliveness and Authenticity
Those are things that, for me, make somebody beautiful. I think they all wrap down to two very simple things…
First, there’s an aliveness about this person. There is some kind of positive passion, a genuine expression. There’s an aliveness and animation to them that’s unique to them that is sexy and attractive.
I would also say there’s an authenticity to them, a real awareness of self, an awareness to their experience in which they can respond in such genuine, real, and spontaneous ways that you say, “Wow, what a beautiful person.”
* Source: Brendon Burchard – How to Be Beautiful