[noname123]

Funny, as someone who took up guitar and pick-up skills, I would have to respectfully disagree.

You can be the best guitar player with the fastest fingers or with the huskiest male-acoustic singer-songwriter-voice, and still can't laid or get signed to a contract. For evidence, just go to your local city's public square or subway station and see all of the talents out there, strumming their hearts out, alone.

Social skills is a misnomer; it is not a skill but rather a shell/skinning/GUI to present the contents underneath. Having lots of friends or gfs would not validate your causes (I'm talking about intrinsic causes) and vice versa too for lackthereof a social life. Social skills are just a set of fancy ways to announce to the world, that "I'm single, and I'm ready to mingle."

Sorry about being blunt, but it's just I feel like a lot of people confuse these two area's in their lives (not saying that one's social life isn't as important; one can't fight against one's biology) and take one for the other; and try to use social superficiality to resolve their intrinsic goals and come off vapid; or try to work on their personal projects in hopes to bolster their social lives and come off frustrated and lonely.