> The label "Intelligent" as it applies to tech is slightly correlated with other traits like social awkwardness, spending 8 hours of your room locked in a room

> The label "Intelligent" as it applies to tech is slightly correlated with other traits like social awkwardness, spending 8 hours of your room locked in a room looking at fast moving flashing objects, inability to talk about anything else than those things. Because intelligence takes practice, and being interesting and social takes practice, and there are only so many hours in a day. There is a meme among some circles of nerds that goes like "while they were drinking and partying in high school and college, we were studying and acquiring skills". This is totally wrong-minded: the people partying were acquiring skills too. The important point for the awkward and unsociable to remember is that those skills really are just skills, like any other; some people might be more or less "talented", but no matter what you are still going to need practice. If you spent your life exclusively acquiring abstract problem solving skills, perhaps it is time to step back, and round out your skill set.