Buy-and-Hold Goon to Rob: “In Social Situations, They Are Going To Be Polite and Not Say Anything To Hurt Your Feelings. When They Learn of Your Divorce as Part of Your Conversation Regarding Investing/Finance, Just Look at Their Facial Reaction. They Now Know You Are a Train Wreck.”

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

“ I’ve been in social situations where I meet someone new and I tell them my story, the board bannings and the divorce and my inability to build my internet writing business and so on. I have never seen a negative reaction, People generally don’t know what to make of it. They have never heard of something like this.”

In social situations, they are going to be polite and not say anything to hurt your feelings. When they learn of your divorce as part of your conversation regarding investing/finance, just look at their facial reaction. They now know you are a train wreck.

The feeling that I get is that they would not have done what I have done. So there is some distancing. But often that is combined with a good bit of curiosity about the investing stuff. People are respectful of the investing ideas. I am not saying that they immediately adopt them as part of their strategy. But there is a genuine interest in the investing ideas.

And of course that interest is 100 percent consistent with what I saw on all of the boards. There’s LOTS iof interest in these investing ideas. People will need to hear more about them to feel safe adopting them. But the interest is there and is reasonably strong even at a time when the CAPE number is at very scary levels. When we see a drop in the CAPE, we should expect to see interest in the investing ideas grow.

We’ll see.

Rob