Warren Buffett Interview on How to Read Stocks

No doubt about it - Warren Buffett, the amazing investor, is a rational Green. Watching this YouTube clip, you realize immediately the wizard of Wall Street is a man completely tuned into knowledge, systems, technology, pragmatism, cold reason, and utilitarian decisions. He will not be drawn into political or moral controversies surrounding his investments. From the standpoint of investment, the whole world - to Warren Buffett - is a numbers game based on careful research.

My wife Reese is Green. Oh boy is she ever. The woman I fell in love liked to dance and go to parties. She was an amazing conversationalist at school and just about everywhere else. Whenever I brought up a new subject, she'd really get into it. If she didn't know much about a subject the first time I brought it up, she would study all about it before we talked about it again. She was an amazing friend as well as girlfriend.

Now it is nine years later. We have one beautiful six-year-old. We share childcare duties and housekeeping chores. We both work.

But "the woman I fell in love with" left the fun in college and has become awfully serious. Dancing and going to parties have fallen by the wayside, and I understand that a little. But I think we should be doing some kind of socializing to get out of our homebound ruts.

When it comes to conversation, she shuts me down if she thinks I'm going to be boring. She's not rude or cruel, but she says things like, "And the bottom line is...?" Or "Didn't we talk about that already?"

I love my wife, Jack. Her "Greenness" is what attracted me to her in the first place, but I just wish we could connect more often and have more fun. What do you think?

Bill Nelson (Gold-Blue)

Hi Bill,

You are not alone experiencing the seriousness of a Green spouse. Greens normally prefer the playground of their own brains over the social world outside of themselves.

The "woman you met" is still there, however. In college, dancing and going to parties were attractive to Reese because she was probably experiencing them to the fullest for the first time. And that's the clue: the first time. Green folks like new and interesting things to do and will stick with them as long as they remain compelling. But eventually they will move on to new interesting things.

Instead of parties, your Green spouse may indeed like to substitute some form of socializing, but here is the secret: Is the socializing potentially intriguing? Interesting? Will other interesting people be there? Will there be something entirely new to learn or to do? Green people often dislike ruts, dislike doing the same thing, dislike hanging with people who say the same things and cease to deliver new information or new experiences.

And that relates to you, Bill. Are you interesting? Do you have new things to bring to the table? Have you taken an interest in any of Reese's projects or ideas? In a nutshell, Bill, are you able to feed Reese's insatiable appetite for new and interesting information?

Now this does not mean that you have to change your behavior all the time just to please your mate, but it is important that you understand why she seems less enthusiastic about socializing or conversing with you. You, too, have a comfort zone that you would like to see accommodated, right? As a Gold-Blue person, you can let Reese know that you may relish some common socializing and intimate conversations and would feel more appreciated if she would patiently join you for some of your favorite activities.

Marriages work where both sides "work" on improving the bonding every single day with all of the activities of the day. Ultimately, you will both learn to bring joy to the other almost effortlessly - and without overly compromising your own values or comfort zone.

Hope this helps.

                               Jack