I'm a young guy with little experience in relationships

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I'm a young guy with little experience in relationships outside of a few "flings" so to speak when I was much younger, I find it really hard to meet girls I want to date (not just sex, I'm actually far more interested in the friendship and companion qualities of a relationship than the sexual aspect).
I'm constantly told what an incredibly good looking, intelligent and funny guy I am by all sorts of people, strangers, coworkers, friends etc but it seems to be so rare that girls show interest in me
I just don't have much initiative in pursuing girls because I rarely meet a girl I could see myself being with (it's not that I'm overly shy, in fact quite the opposite it's just that I'm not a very social or friendly person)
I feel like girls are intimidated by me or are too shy to show interest or take any sort of initiative
To my severe dismay I also have the tendency to show disinterest towards girls I have genuine interest in, because throughout my earlier life and relationships when I showed interest girls would constantly be playing games and using my perceived interest as a way of manipulation (quite common in most younger women I've found)
The obvious answer would be to just get out more and meet more people, but ultimately I'm quite happy living a solitary life and when I meet that girl I truly love I'll know it. Having said that I have this pursuing annoyance that maybe I've met that girl already but I dismissed her to the point she didn't even bother to engage me further

tl;dr: Self-confident but introverted guy worried that I am turning away girls through disinterest and lack of social norms (i.e small talk)