the tale of two brains

Jumat - Sabtu kmrn ceritanya gua ikut IMPACT 2006: Men's Conference di Thomas Road Church. Awalnya ga gitu minat ikut sih tapi akhirnya gua semangat jg dengan melihat berbagai topik2nya yang seru. Well, selama seminggu ini kesibukan lumayan meningkat dan badan udah kerasa capenya bukan maen. Nah, acara ini mulai dari sore jam 5-10 mlm. Wewww, gua awalnya ga yakin gitu. Yg lebih gila, Sabtunya itoeee... mulainya ga tanggung jam 7 pagi! Gile biasa gue bangun jam 9 aja udah bagus... ini jam 7? Dengan kondisi badan cape semingguan? Nah, akhirnya gua ikut juga. Salah satu breakout session yang cukup menarik adalah ttg Healthy Sexuality. Ternyata ini bicara mengenai perbedaan men & women, dan tentunya bukan ttg seks doank. Kita nonton pembicaranya lewat DVD. Judulnya: A Tale of Two Brains - by Mark Gungor, Laugh Your Way America! Orangnya emang kocak banget jadi topik yang super serius ini dibikin nyantai. Sepanjang dia bicara gue denger sambil bikin catatan di notes, in English.

You'll find it interesting. Some of these are generally true, some of them would have exceptions.

Men's Brains - Women's Brains

• Men's brains are comprised of 'little boxes'. These boxes don't touch each others. They will discuss only what is in that box.
• Women's brains are like 'big balls of wire', anything is connected to everything. They are driven by energy called as emotion.

• Men don't care.
• Women can remember everything. They can talk about everything.

• Speaking about boxes, men have a box with nothing in it. This is the 'nothing box.' In fact, this is their favorite box! They will go to this box whenever they are stress. This nothing box can be: fishing, watching TV, newspaper.... etc.
• When women are stressed-out watching men hooked up in their 'nothing box', they will ask men, "What are you thinking about?" Do you know their answer?

Nothing.

A researcher from University of Pennsylvania found out that men can think about nothing and still breath. (lol)

• Men tend to use less words.
• Women repeat everything they say.

There is another research done through a nursery room in a church. A boy who's doing nothing and just sit down kept his mouth opened. (aaaa....). A girl who's doing the same kept her mouth opened but it looked as if she was talking (aoaoaouaoa...).

Different meanings

Men and women perceives different meanings of some words like for instance:

• 5 minutes. When a man says 5 minutes, it's usually like: Hey, you have 5 more minutes! (they're dead serious about it) When a woman says 5 minutes, it could be any time.
• Nothin. When a man says nothin, it's nothin. When a woman says nothin, you can be sure that it means 'somethin.'
• (Sigh) in motion. When a man sighs, he is thinking, "Aaaah what a wonderful day!" When a women sighs, it could be something like, "Why you never understand....?" or something like, "You're an idiot..."
• Go ahead. If a man says that, they're usually plain. If a woman says that, they usually sighs afterward.

Women's brain usually has extra RAM's while men's brain usually comes with basic minimum requirements.

Men have what they said as selected listening.

Men are single-tasking, women are multi-tasking. That's why we can find that men has a certain profession, such as: the greatest chef.

Warning

• Do not give vital information to men when they are seriously doing something. When you do this, usually men have their 'defense mechanism' and that is "uhuh.... uhuh.....uhuh.."

Ok. Menarik juga sih sebetulnya. Pas kemaren di classroom orang2 pada ketawa2 karena kebanyakan mereka baik itu young adults or older people ngerasa yang diomongin disitu walaupun konyol tapi itu betul terjadi. So terserah penilaian yang baca. Tuhan ciptakan kita dengan keunikan berbeda, tapi tujuan tetap sama untuk memuliakan Dia. Amin.