I also don’t think too much of the idea that because we cannot all become Warren Buffetts that we should not make an effort to become better investors than we are today.

If we applied the Passive Investing concept to our search for a life partner, we would say “there’s no purpose in trying to find a suitable match, I should just marry the first person who happens to cross my path — that’s what “the market” says is right for me!”

I say “no.” The market is us. To the extent we all strive to be Warren Buffetts, we make the market smarter than it would be if we all investing passively. It’s our intelligence that makes things go right and it’s our unwillingness to apply our intelligence (in the event that we throw our hands up in the air because we don’t think we can match Buffett) that can make things go very wrong.

My wife is not a perfect “10.” Not by the moronic standards of that idiotic and insulting magazine. My wife is a perfect “10″ because of what I have seen in her during that path we have travelled together, something that I could not see in the woman pictured on the cover of that magazine even if I personally found her even a little bit attractive (I do not, but that does not mean that there is anything wrong with her other than that she just is not even a little bit my type).

I’ll never be a Perfect 10 investor. But I learn something new about investing just about every day. I feel zero interest in investing passively today. It’s because I rejected the Passive approach about seven years ago that I am a lot closer to Warren Buffett status today than I have any right to be given how short of him I fall in the I.Q. department.

The idea is to strive to be the best life partner you can possibly be and to strive to be the best investor you can possibly be. Saying “I can’t be Warren Buffett, so I will stop trying to learn” is a cop-out, in my assessment.

Rob

A perfect post.

No woman is a perfect 10, and the younger we learn it, the better, so we can grow up and get on with our lives instead of spending it stuck in limbo, obsessing about looks that will eventually fade.

I learned early on that being pretty is a nice bonus, but I’d rather be known as being intelligent with a great big personality.

The girls who had the best personalities, no matter what they looked like, always had people admiring them.

And some beauties were ugly on the inside! Ick.