"I agree with you. Social interaction is the one thing no one has ever been able to 'scientifically' figure out. Otherwise we could all just read some books and

"I agree with you. Social interaction is the one thing no one has ever been able to 'scientifically' figure out. Otherwise we could all just read some books and be good at socializing." "No matter how many books people read they will never be as quick witted as Robin Williams or as empathetic as Oprah." Think about it: you can't get good at programming just by reading books. And programming is logic based and requires much slower reaction times etc than holding a conversation. You can definitely improve your social skills by reading and more importantly practicing. Once you can pick up if somebody is interested and engaged with what you are saying you can try all sorts of conversation skills to try and find patterns to how they work. And again just like programming you cannot simply expect that because you are good at writing webapps (talking to a particular social/cultural/age/gender group) that you will be good at writing embedded systems.