There are many 'kinds' of intelligence. I think one of the problems for some people is that 'social intelligence' gets you noticed easier in nt dominated domains,......... and 'smoozing' is a talent, or an intelligence category in itself. But I have taught myself NOT TO BE FOOLED BY SMOOZING. I learned that people are fakes, and speak in manners which make them appear special! To me,....what I hear when they speak is: CLICHES....because what they say sounds like a recording..........A LEARNED BEHAVIOR, LEARNED JARGON.....you know?.....nothing creative about it, it is more like monkey see monkey do...a PUT-ON................. A person can be a very good talker and seem intelligent enough to others because they 'know what to say'....... but outside that domain they might be very restricted in their intelligence, because they have profited from a dependence on 'social intelligence' getting them places in life. In a way there are intelligence 'specialties' and some people have more than one specialty, while others might only have one or two intelligence domains that they have cultivated. Well, anyway..... research shows that there are many types of intelligence........how useful to success in life those various intelligences are relates often to choices and temperaments (example competitive nature, passive, etc).....and even luck itself.