12 Kms, 16 people guiding us through the route, earlier guidance on phone by 2 people with all the marks that we need to look for… Still we struggled to get to the destiny… 12 Kms which we could have covered in 45 mins max probably took us more than 1.5 hrs & in the car were all ladies…Not even a single lady in the car could read the map totally right till the end… Why does this happen? Why we, most women cannot understand the map? Why don’t we understand the geography as well as guys can?
There are lots of articles out there in internet & lots of book available. But I liked & totally accept 1 particular line that I read about this. Unable to read the map does not affect their intellectual performance or overall intelligence. It doesn’t mean guys are more intelligent than ladies…It is just that guys are good at certain things & girls are good at lot of other things… Did I say lot of other things? Yes, I did…After all I am a girl you see… Nope, but I am not a feminist. I am saying girls are good at lot of other things because they really are J
Every human being has white matter & a gray matter which constitutes the 2 components of Central Nervous System. White matter is the tissue through which the messages pass between different areas of gray matter with in the nervous system. I liked the comparison that is particularly used in Wikipedia on this. If we have use the analogy of a computer, Gray matter is the computer itself & the white matter is the network cables connecting the computers together.
The entire brain is enveloped in three protective sheets known as the meninges, continuations of the membranes that wrap the spinal cord. The two inner sheets enclose a shock-absorbing cushion of cerebrospinal fluid. Nerve fibers in the brain are covered in a near-white substance called myelin and form the white matter of the brain. Nerve cell bodies, which are not covered by myelin sheaths, form the gray matter. So both gray matter & white matter are both the brain cells. It is the covering which differs for white cells & gray cells.
All of us have 40 percent gray matter & 60 percent white matter. When given any tests, men use 6.5 times more gray matter than women, while women use nine times as much white matter.
White matter connects the brain's processing centers and is central to emotional thinking, use of language, and the ability to do more than one thing at once. Gray is central to processing information and plays a vital role in aiding skills such as map-reading and intellectual thought.
This explains why men excel in tasks requiring more local processing like map-reading, while women excels at integrated information from various brain regions, such as is required for language skills. It is just the use of the white or gray matter that makes men good at reading maps…
But, honestly, one thing I have to admit… Thank God, we have men in our lives!!! Else it would probably be 12Kms, 60 people guiding us, time taken unknown & destiny took more than the time imaginable to reach the place.
