I'm a 2nd year physics student and I have a friend who is a truck driver. He still has way better intuition in mechanics than I do. Whenever we talk about explaining some every day phenomena like skateboarding, how jumping works etc. he immediately explains it while I'm still trying to remember formulas and principles. He's some kind of high IQ abstraction prodigy who has no interest in using this gift.
He always laughs about how he's "serving a 2nd year physics student" but to me it's not funny. It's like he feels as if he doesn't need to study when he's already better than actual STEM people.

What to do about this? No matter how much I study, it seems I never gain any insight into everyday mechanics and this friend is always ahead of me.
I was skateboarding with this friend of mine and I made my skateboard move forward just by rocking my body back and forth. I asked him how the hell am I moving forward like this, internal forces shouldn't affect the momentum of the system.
It took him a fraction of a second to explain that it has to do with different types of friction: I move my center of mass _slowly_ to the front wheels and then quickly snap my center of mass to the back wheels and the force associated with this fast movement is large enough to overcome the static friction.
No matter what kind of situation I gave him, he explained it in proper physics terms while I could not. And this guy is a middle-aged trucker, I'm a physics student.

I should probably just drop out, but it's not like I'm gonna start another major from scratch and delay getting a job for years.