the brainy guy will get a high powered, high paying job, bringing in boatloads of cash. what good will the social skills do?
Help you become the president 🙂 if you’re good with people and charismatic…
Seriously though, if you’re popular, in general it means that you have good middos because people don’t like hanging out with nasty people (I’m totally generalizing here). Now I’m not saying that if you’re smart you don’t have good middos I’m just focusing on popular. So I’d rather be popular than smart because books aren’t going to be there when you’re down and going through something difficult in life, like friends will.
And for those that said that friends come and go, true but there is nothing like a lifelong friend.