Several years ago, there was a very popular relationship book called “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.” The book did a great job of going into great detail about how men and women see and do things differently. I read the book at the time, but to be honest, I don’t really remember all of the key principles of the book, although I internalized the information. In short, men and women are wired differently in many ways and that came as no surprise to anyone who read the book. However, what it did do was dive a bit into the science and help us all to understand each other a little better. For so long, men and women just sort of threw their hands up in the air and said “I give up!” and just made the best of things. The man who wrote the explanation below nails it.
Women are much more complicated than men. Men are very simple. And you know why? It’s because their brains are so different. First, I want to start with men. Men’s brains are very unique. Most women don’t realize that whether we are having sex or watching sports, our brains are made up of little boxes. We’ve got a box for everything. We’ve got a box for the car. We’ve got a box for the money. We’ve got a box for the job. We’ve got a box for you. We’ve got a box for the kids. We’ve got a box for your mother somewhere in the basement.
We’ve got boxes everywhere. And the rule is: the boxes don’t touch. When a man discusses a particular subject, we go to that particular box, we pull that box out, we open the box, and we discuss only what is in THAT BOX. And then we close the box and put it away being very, very careful not to touch other boxes.
Now women’s brains are very, very different from men’s brains. Women’s brains are made up of a big ball of wire. And everything is connected to everything. The money is connected to the car and the car is connected to your job and your kids are connected to your mother and everything is all connected. It’s like the Internet superhighway, and it’s all driven by energy that we call emotion. It’s one of the reasons why women tend to remember…everything.
Because if you take an event and you connect it to an emotion and it burns in your memory and you can remember it forever. The same thing happens for men. It just doesn’t happen very often, because quite frankly…we don’t care. Women tend to care about everything. And she just loves it.
Now men, we have a box in our brain that most women are not aware of. This particular box has nothing in it. In fact, we call it the ‘nothing box.’ And of all the boxes a man has in his brain, the ‘nothing box’ is our favorite box. If a man has a chance, he’ll go to his nothing box every time.
That’s why a man can do something seemingly completely brain dead for hours on end. You know, like fishing.
Now they’ve actually measured this. The University of Pennsylvania a couple of years ago did a study and discovered that men have the ability to think about absolutely nothing, and still breathe.
Women can’t do it. Their mind has never stopped. And they don’t understand the ‘nothing box’, and it drives them CRAZY because nothing drives a woman more crazy and makes them feel more irritated than to watch a man doing nothing.
