Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.

The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.