Mark Gungor the motivational speaker and minister who runs the marriage course is funny and tells things like it is.
I found it so interesting and so very true! He does explain that in general what he talks about can be confined to men's brains and women's brains but he is sure that there are people who act and think in the reverse, so it is not a blanket that-is-how-you-are type thing.
The two very interesting things i got from this clip (1 hour!):
* Women have to ask their men more than once to do something for them. But women don't want to do this because they shouldn't have to! We want our men to do it without asking.
* Men are interested in 1 thing. And you know what that is ;) So the way to getting what we want from our men is to bargain with what they want!
I found this seminar really exciting from a writer's perspective too. If you struggle to really get into your hero's head, then this can give you some basic background information on how a man's brain works!
For instance, a man's brain is full of little boxes each filled with a different topic - car, money, job...etc. They don't touch! So when they talk about something, it is only about the contents in that one box. And that is how men can be so focussed and why they are so good at single-tasking. (My hubby disagrees with this one, he says he is a better multi-tasker than me, but then, he is wired differently to me and i juggle more things at once than he realises!)
Also they have a 'nothing' box. But i'll let you watch the clip to see what this is, and how funny and true this whole seminar rings! Go on watch it!
Kerrin,
ReplyDeletevery interesting. Some people I have crossed paths with suggest women and men both have tabula rasa at birth and are equal. I find this notion silly.
Men and women are very different, both physically and mentally/emotionally.
I personally believe that men held the upper hand during times when society placed a premium on physical strength. This was pre-mechanization of industrialization. In today's society, I believe women hold the upper hand since the skills they are better at are having an economic premium being placed on them and the physical strength skills are of less importance.
Anyway....
-SH