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Would you rather be highly intelligent (say top 2%) with average social skills, or have outstanding social skills with average intelligence?
Why?
Why?
I think you would probably have a better life with the social skills. IQ doesn't do much for you in many of the fields most important for feeling happy or fulfilled (and may actually be a hindrance).
If you have amazing social skills and average intelligence you can pull in a very good income in sales or a similar person-oriented role, and you'll do well in office politics.
In your personal life you'll find it easier to approach potential partners (and not, to pick an example at random, annoy them by saying 'anyway, the really interesting thing about stable allocations in matching games' while they're flirting)
Contrasting, I am not certain IQ alone will take you very far in many fields outside of academia (where participants are all famously happy and fulfilled) or *maybe* tech, but the returns really do concentrate there. It's a bit of a lottery.
Humans are a social species and I think being good at that is basically where the most utility is.
