Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.