While people go on and on about what they did, how they did it, why they did it, and even who they did..blah blah yadda yadda..I had a rather interesting thought this morning...
"Do men take instructions better than women or vice versa?"
Now don't you all start creating a racket here...there is of course no perfect answer to this(although men and women both will highly object to this!)...but I personally feel that if the ego allows, and if the instruction is heard loud and clear, Men would adhere to it better than Women in most cases. I say most cases, mind u. How can I be a woman and say that, you ask.I hear you! Well, I say this BECAUSE ..I'm a woman.
I don't only hear an instruction, I hear things around it I'm not supposed to, dwell on it for eons and in the process lose what the purpose of the original task was supposed to be. Men have bigger ego's. Yes, I would agree to that. But the same ego tends to make them strive for perfection. (and never attain it!).How can an expectation fall short when bestowed to a Man? Uh huh..No can't do sir, so Men tend to listen to the words rather than letting their imaginations run wild at the inappropriate times!
Think of it this way, suppose my boss screams at me and I stiffen up and refresh my attitude going forward, I'm a man. If I spend the next few days complaining how unfair that was and wasting more time than ever, and also the time of my colleagues who are randomly pulled into the conversation (females of course)..I'm definitely a woman…
If someone told me not to wear makeup one day, I would wonder if they meant that I looked better without it, or that nothing could make my face look any good so why bother with it at all! This is a woman. For a man..ok on second thoughts, bad example...
Bottom line is, we worry more about the why's and what's and who's of the situation rather than just the action and outcome. Sad, but true!
Shake your heads all you want, the situation is real and so is the reaction. Exceptions would be day to day related instructions like clean your mess, wash the dishes, make your bed, do the laundry, take a shower etc. Those are unheard of in a Man's world. Hell, men don't even consider them as instructions!
A man sees a woman
Says she looks pretty.
She thinks he is suave
Funny and witty.
They get along just well
Till along comes a task,
The man listens carefully
The woman has tons to ask.
The man thinks of answers
And how to shine,
The woman looks flustered
And reads in-between the lines.
Deadline draws close
And time is ticking,
The man is working day & night
The woman's patience is dropping.
What is he up to, she asks
It can't be taking that long,
Was it to be done like this or that?
I think I have it all wrong!
The day arrives, outcomes are compared
No one is wrong
The man details it in a page
The woman has it 20 pages long!
She smiles bashfully, he wonders
How the additional pages came,
Well, she says, I made my own instructions,
Coz the initial ones were too plain!
The man is gloating in pride
He got it out of the way
The woman just seems satisfied
Ah! It wasn't her thing anyway!
For the rest, I think I just got myself a big male fan following after this post. Now who needs to listen to any instructions when you have that eh? They'll take care of it all anyway ;)!
3 comments:
you know how this men vs. women battle has been fought over and over again as to who is better and all that shit.
I spit on all of you who have done this... it is as simple as this folks..
we are different!!!!!!! DUH!
and from my pretty decent observations in the past, i've just realized for eg. a marked difference in our personas...
men act without thinking more often, women think and fail to act on it more often ....
thus, if given instructions.... men tend to just take it.. and do it..
to us men, thinking usually is a post-mortem... unless "specifically instructed to think before acting"
tadaaaa!
The man details it in a page
The woman has it 20 pages long!
Reminds me of this quote:
"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
--- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
And this one from a letter by Blaise Pascal:
"I apologize for this long letter. I didn't have the time to make it any shorter."
First visit here.
I disagree. I think, men understands the whole situation better and so they do what they have to do or even don't do it.
When boss shouts at you, men understand why, including the side factors of whether he was mean, unfair... Sometime we even remember them and pay back in kind, or remember them to make analysis of the next situtation easier.
At least it is a possibility.
And no, everything is not ego.
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