Would you rather be smart but awkward or average but socially adept?

AUGirl
Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:14:51 +0000

Average.

I don’t care about being smart. Intelligence has little meaning to me. It never has. I always hated the idea of gifted and talented.

The people who have the most success in this world are often the ones that have amazing social skills and know how to work with people. If you have good social skills, you’ll have a better job interview, you’ll be more able to make business connections at parties and what-not, there are a lot of upsides to being socially adept.

And average people can work hard to make the same gains as smart people.