acting

maybe actors are born by never learning, intuitively, to act. These simplest of people always show what they are feeling with direct, un-second-guessed earnestness. When somebody puts them into a situation, they baldly display their reaction to it. When a director says, "now you're in love," they know what that feels like and don't worry too much about the meta-level motivations, ironies, hidden information, etc, which people (me, at at least) take into account to help their position in social situations.

Of course, then there's the other way, where actors have an intuitive grasp of how to manipulate people by showing them certain feelings and information as opposed to others, and then they hone that skill through practice. This kind of actor would probably be more flexible, though it would take them many more years before they were ready to give a really convincing presentation.