The Knack

You can give all the credit in the world to having common sense or having gained intelligence, but I'll tell you, some things in life you could have all the common sense in the world or have studied for days and weeks and months on end, and you'll still never get it right. Some things in life just take "the knack."
It is true that some people excel in common sense and they have what some people refer to as "street smarts." And it is also true that some people just learn differently and need to really study a process and how it works and are terrific problem solvers. These people would have what is called "book smarts." But there is a different breed of intelligence out there altogether. It is so different, in fact, that one might not even be able to call it a form of intelligence.
It is "the knack" and it is something that certain people just happen to have for certain types of situations. It's not something that they gained through research and independent study, and it is certainly not common. It's just instinctive for certain people to do certain things well. For example, one could argue that Albert Pujols, the First Baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, just has the knack for hitting the baseball. Stats and superstitions aside, anyone could tell plain as day, that when Albert Pujols gets pitched to, he hits the ball and he hits it well. He does not possess a great amount of intelligence, and he is certainly as common a man as you or me, save the fact that he has a great "knack" for hitting the baseball.
On the other side of the coin, it could be said that I do not have the knack for sweeping hardwood floors, as I learned today whilst doing household chores. But I will say this, I can sing the Beach Boys to my heart's content as I'm getting dust all over the kitchen, and I would like to think that I might have a certain knack for that.