I Wish I Was An Intellectual

Although I read your entire post, I had to stop to think there. This isn't true. A lot people are good at nothing. Sure, we have some things we can do, but we're good at nothing. We excel at nothing and we're fully aware of this. When people, who have proven themselves to be of higher standards, practices, intelligence, and the like start doing stuff like this and make it seem serious, we feel even worse about ourselves because that makes us look so much worse and we feel worse. People like me can't even hold a half-intelligent conversation, much less excel at anything in life. I really can't find a single thing I'm good at and that's not even in comparison to anything.

Japanese. You're better at Japanese than the average foreigner. Point stands.

Excelling in an area of knowledge/practice is being, not slightly but notably, better than the average.