I think you asked the wrong question of your life coach. In a way, it is provoked. You are posting to a public forum and dishing out advice. If you get it wrong, I consider it a provocation because alot of people look to you for advice.
It isn’t like you are walking down the street and some moron is lauging at your hair or telling you to get a boob job. That is the kid of unprovoked criticism your life coach is talking about.
I know you feel our criticism is as such, but it really isn’t.
Second, the people criticising you are very intelligent, all around. If I were a life coach, I would suggest that when so many smart people criticize your public comments in unison over and over again, listen and consider that they may be right.
On a more personal level, powayseller, I really think you shoot yourself in the foot when you spin these articles incorrectly. If you want to be respected, you will stop it, and more importantly stop defending it. The people here pointing out issues like this could be helping you, if only you would stop and listen and absorb the criticism.
Before dismissing it as meanness from unintelligent people, stop and think. Learn. Some of these people are smarter than you and I suspect a couple of them could have lunch with Robini and teach him a thing or two.
Lastly, I don’t necessarily criticize you to convince you to change your ways. I criticize you for two other reasons also 1) To let new readers and lurkers know this is not a “yell bubble without thinking” forum and 2) to help ensure that others reading your posts don’t believe it blindly.
People have a tendency to perceive those who talk alot as being more intelligent than those who talk less, and on this forum you talk alot. I just want to make sure the average reader out there sees the other side of your post and realize when you jumped to a conclusions.
I want others to see the housing bubble in reality, not in the (slightly) over-blown sense with which you portray it. If you can’t handle people picking apart your every word, this is the wrong place for you.
I think Cagan’s paper is not clear and thus not very useful. If you have an outdoor party coming up and you are concerned about the rain, and someone comes to you and says “you are at risk of getting rained on”. You would say “give me the CHANCE of rain, using a number” to make it more clear what they meant by “at risk.”
I think you sensed this problem so you tried to put a number to it and made a bad assumption – but I think Cagan should have put that number in, not you.
To bring it back to the topic of this thread:
Be careful saying “peace” then implying I am less intelligent in a back-handed sort of way. That is exactly the kind of personal slam that you were trying to avoid in the title of this thread, isn’t it?
Your life coach probably would have suggested you leave that bit out of the post because it wasn’t “being nice”. I mean – the life coach says “be nice” and you do exactly what she told you not to do and say we lack the intelligence to debate. Amazing.
In summary – when we hammer on powayseller, lets stick to the analysis and avoid the snide remarks. But by all means – hammer away.
