Women's brain VS Men's brain
- momscorner123
- May 21, 2018
- 4 min read
This blogpost is little bit of a tongue-in-cheeck one to brighten up your Monday with a some humor.
Have you ever looked at your husband wondering what is happening in that space called The Brain?
This happens to me sometimes, especially coming home after a hectic day, the kids are hungry, talking non-stop, leaving a trail of destruction as they make their way through the house, and well…..just being kids needing attention.
Your brain feels like it’s going to explode, trying to come up with some magical meal for supper time that will satisfy your fussy 3-year-old eater, unpacking school bags, reading the teacher’s note hoping you did not miss something your kid should’ve had at school, all while the to-do list before you can get into bed tonight is growing in your mind.
You take a second and turn around, searching for your husband, and there he is, busy washing the baby’s bottles, looking very calm and relaxed staring out of the window seemingly in his own world, even though you know his day was just as hectic as yours, and you think to yourself….WOW….how on earth does he manage to be so calm, your mind is going crazy and it’s like nothing can fluster him in that moment.
Or sometimes, when you ask your husband to pick up a few things from the shop and he returns home with half of the items on the list, but three bags full of groceries and a big smile on his face while he says: “I thought you needed a few things, so I got them for you”, and when you peek into the bags none of the items you needed for supper is there. Then the question comes to mind again…how does that brain operate so differently from yours?
So I did what I usually do when I do not know something…I Google it…jip old faithful google (which you should always take with a pinch of salt). Because in my mind, surely there must be some scientific or biological explanation for this. Don’t get me wrong, I am a firm believer that God created each of us in his/her own unique way, but seriously, somedays I think He must’ve taken more than just Adam’s rib when He created Eve.
I did come across a decent amount of research related to this topic, but it would be a waste of my (already limited) time reading through all of it. I did however come across this guy called Mark Gungor who is a marriage expert and comedian.
I watched his video, The Tail of Two Brains, from his Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage series, and after watching this video I had a light bulb moment. According to him men and women have completely different styles of thinking and it all boils down to how we sort information in our brains.
This is what he has to say:
“Men’s brains and women’s brains are very different!
And here’s how: Men’s brains are made up of little boxes and we have a box for everything. We have a box for the car. We have a box for the money. We have a box for the job, a box for the kids, a box for you, a box for your mother...somewhere in the basement. We have boxes everywhere!
And the rule is the boxes do not touch. All right?
When a man discusses a particular subject, he goes to the appropriate box, slides it out, opens it up, will discuss only the content of that particular box and then when he is done, he puts it away hoping not to touch or disturb any of the other boxes.
Now a woman’s brain is made up of a big ball of wire and everything is connected to everything…It’s like the Internet super highway, and it’s all driven by energy that we call emotion. It’s one of the reasons that women tend to remember everything because if you take an event and tie it to emotion you can remember it forever.
The same thing happens to men, but it doesn’t happen very often, because frankly…we don’t care.
But women tend to remember EVERYTHING!
Men have a box in their brain that women are not aware of. This particular box, has NOTHING in it.
It’s true. In fact, we call it the “Nothing” box.
And of all the boxes a man has in his brain, the nothing box is his favorite box. If a man has a chance, he’ll go to his nothing box EVERYTIME.
That’s why a man can do something seemingly completely brain dead for hours on end. You know, like, fishing. They’ve actually measured this.
The University of Pennsylvania did a study and men can do absolutely nothing and still breathe. Women can’t do it. Their minds never stop! And they don’t understand the “Nothing” box…and it drives them CRAZY…because NOTHING makes a woman go crazy like watching a man…doing…nothing!”
(These words were transcribed by Giovanna Boldrini form the video in the link below)
After listening to this guy explaining the differences between the male and female brain, even though it is pure humor and not at all proven, it was the best explanation I have ever came across. And I think there is so much truth in this.
So many things made much more sense to me, most important, do not take yourself too serious, understand that God did not create men and women to think alike, our brains are “wired” differently, and just accept it, work with it and do not fight it.
So now ladies….the challenge is…how to slow down and talk to your man in “boxes”! ;-)
Have a blessed week!
XXX
Nicole
P.S. Do yourself a favor and watch Mark Gungor’s video on YouTube here:
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