I feel you on this. Unfortunately in our community, intelligence is not revered as it should be, and instead, those of us who are intelligent are even dare I say, looked down on.
Our women are taught by society that men are supposed to be aggressive brute creatures instead of being intelligent with finesse and tact.
And then when you do run into women who are impressed with your intelligence, a lot of them are also insecure with it at the same time. One time I talked to this chic I met while out skating (years ago) and she and I traded numbers and were getting to know each other. It was all going so well, or so I thought.
Then one day she blurted out that I make her feel stupid. I said, huh? And she told me that every time she talked to me, she could tell how intelligent I was, and it just made her feel stupid.
We didn't communicate much after that.
With that being said, I had to learn to go for women that were "in my lane". There are some brothas on this site that can go get with any chic. That's not me. I have a specific lane open to me - intelligent, career-driven women.
I've met other types of women who are attracted to me physically but once we start talking, we have nothing in common so it doesn't go anywhere. So now I just stay in my lane.
The bolded is true, and is actually advice my old boss gave me when I was younger and was struggling with women. I was a great salesperson, I could go anywhere and to anybody and strike up a random conversation to make a sell. But I was terrible when it came to approaching women.
And boss was like, "It's literally the same concept. If you can approach a random person to sell a service, why can't you approach a random woman to sell yourself"?
It blew my mind at the time and I used that advice to improve my skills almost over night. It's kinda the reverse of what
@CopiousX is saying, but I'm agreeing that it's the same skills.
If you're good at selling, you should be good at cold approaching women. If you're good at cold approaching women, you should be good at being a salesman. These are important skills and you are among the top percentile of men that can do this, because not many can. Especially nowadays.