Summary of Allan Pease & Barbara Pease's Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps

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#1 Men use toilets as social lounges and therapy rooms. Women use toilets as strangers, and can come out best friends and lifelong buddies. Men are amazed how a woman can't see a red flashing oil light on the car dashboard, but can spot a dirty sock in a dark corner 50 metres away.

#2 Men and women have evolved differently because they had to. Men hunted, while women gathered. Men protected, while women nurtured. As a result, their bodies and brains evolved in different ways.

#3 The way our brains are wired and the hormones pulsing through our bodies are the two factors that largely dictate how we will think and behave. Our instincts are simply our genes determining how our bodies will behave in given circumstances.

#4 The study of how the brain works now gives us many answers. Men and women are not identical, and they should be equal in terms of their opportunities to exercise their full potential, but they are definitely not identical in their innate abilities.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822502345

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Insights on Allan Pease & Barbara Pease's Why Men Dont Listen and Women Can't Read Maps

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Men use toilets as social lounges and therapy rooms. Women use toilets as strangers, and can come out best friends and lifelong buddies. Men are amazed how a woman can't see a red flashing oil light on the car dashboard, but can spot a dirty sock in a dark corner 50 metres away.

#2

Men and women have evolved differently because they had to. Men hunted, while women gathered. Men protected, while women nurtured. As a result, their bodies and brains evolved in different ways.

#3

The way our brains are wired and the hormones pulsing through our bodies are the two factors that largely dictate how we will think and behave. Our instincts are simply our genes determining how our bodies will behave in given circumstances.

#4

The study of how the brain works now gives us many answers. Men and women are not identical, and they should be equal in terms of their opportunities to exercise their full potential, but they are definitely not identical in their innate abilities.

#5

The brain differences between women and men are clear, and they are not the same. Men and women are profoundly different both physically and mentally.

#6

The authors are not suggesting that men and women should behave or be treated in a particular way. We are simply trying to explain the differences between the two sexes, and develop techniques and strategies for a happier and more fulfilling life.

#7

We are not better or worse because we are different, but different. We are a product of our biology, and our brain is wired differently. This causes us to have different values and priorities.

#8

To benefit from the experience of a different culture, you must first understand its history and evolution. Then you need to learn basic phrases and sample their lifestyle for first hand experience.

#9

We deal with the modern naked ape, the ape who controls the world with mega-computers and can land on Mars. Humans may look a little different from one culture to another, but underneath, our biological needs and urges are the same.

#10

The way it was for hundreds of thousands of years, men would venture out each day to hunt food, and bring it home for their families. Women would spend their days caring for their children and interacting with the other women in the group. Their skills were specialized to meet those roles.

#11

The rules of ancient civilisations, such as the ones in Borneo, parts of Africa, and Indonesia, still exist today among some Aboriginal Australians, New Zealand Maoris, and the Inuit of Canada and Greenland.

#12

The family unit is no longer dependent on men for its survival, and women are no longer expected to stay at home as nurturers and home-makers. For the first time in the history of our species, most men and women are confused about