“If fifty-million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” – Anatole France
For decades we've been taught that “above the neck, there is no difference between a woman and a man.” Sadly, this is just another foolish thing that we've believed.
In her new audiobook, The Natural Advantages of Women, Michele Miller delivers the startling results of neurological research that explains why women do the things they do. In a thoroughly entertaining flow of human stories supported by scientific research, Miller delivers the startling results of recent studies at Stanford University, Indiana University School of Medicine, McMaster University, Emory University in Atlanta, and Ghent University in Belgium. Here's a little nugget I extracted from page 18 of the 52-page transcript booklet that accompanies the one-hour audio CD:
“Believe it or not, Woman does not live by hormones alone. There are approximately one billion nerve cells in the human brain. Not only do women have significantly more connections between these cells than men, they also have an advantage in the region known as the corpus callosum, the main tissue bridge that links the two hemispheres of the brain. Remember when I told you that women have four times as many connections between the two sides of the brain? This is where it happens… and it gets even more fascinating. The female corpus callosum is much thicker as well – as much as 15 percent! Researchers believe that this combination of size and connectivity makes women more perceptive, articulate, and verbally fluent. We are simply better equipped to move data from one side of the brain to the other. We also attune ourselves to a wider perspective in thought processing by responding to nuances in body language, tone of voice, and other non-verbal cues. Our brains are virtual superhighways of whole-thought processing!”
From page 22: “Emotional awareness is the Swiss Army knife of feminine traits – it has a dozen different uses…”
From page 26: “Women can identify an emotion and discriminate it from other facial expressions faster than men – sometimes even before realizing it's a face. It's interesting to note that in one study testing how people read facial moods, men had a devil of a time detecting sadness in a woman's face – they were correct only about 70 percent of the time. Could this be why men think we 'start crying for no reason?'”
From page 32: “The Emory researchers initially set out to show that a woman's brain reacts the same way each time it strives for a goal, no matter what the plan is for achieving that goal. What they discovered was surprisingly the opposite…”
From page 33: “…even more interesting, it was the perception of bonding with other humans, not the money, these women responded to.”
Men, buy this 59-minute audiobook and listen to it immediately. Then, when your wife, daughter or mother tries to give you a copy, you can say, “I've already listened to that. Hey, that Michele Miller is really something, isn't she?” and the value of your stock will rise about ten thousand points on the Good Husband index. (To jump your stock a million points, give The Natural Advantages of Women to a woman you love.) Speaking purely as a businessman, Michele's work helped me better understand the kinds of decisions that I should probably entrust to a woman in my company.
I suppose the bottom line is this: We guys have always known that women are better at some things than we are. Michele Miller just helps us better understand why.
Roy H. Williams
PS – The Natural Advantages of Women by Michele Miller will be listed on Amazon.com in a couple of weeks but it's available today for immediate shipping at www.WizardAcademyPress.com. And for only ten dollars!