Those areas you mentioned are all skills, where intelligence helps, but practice is far more important. And if your situation is like mine, then those friends p

Those areas you mentioned are all skills, where intelligence helps, but practice is far more important. And if your situation is like mine, then those friends probably spend way more time than you practicing those skills. Instead of analyzing a joke / expression / reaction to death, weighting the subtle differences between synonyms, they probably tried a bunch of times and saw what stuck. Don't confuse intelligence with experience. ps. It took me about an hour to write this comment and it isn't any better for it. I probably could've written a dozen in the same time and become much better at expressing my thoughts instead.