It can make sense to teach social skills to people who lack them, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to fast-track people for having competitive skills at zero-sum contests. Putting people into gifted programs or admitting them into more-elite colleges because they have high social skills guarantees that people with higher intelligence (and better ideas) will have a much harder time getting their views heard. Give me a workplace full of stuttering nerds with pocket protectors, not conniving manipulators.

I agree with that.

Better to promote creating value over successfully accumulating value.

The Vikings may have been very successful at marauding and successfully collecting value, but even the Vikings, and perhaps especially the Vikings, would want others to get better at producing value for them to pillage.

A predator can be quite successful, but I'd rather support the creators, and even predators have an interest in that.