13-06-2015, 08:14 AM
Can I toss in a bit of homegrown observational psychology .. I might well be speaking rubbish here but:- .
I do wonder whether what we are observing here is the differences between fundamentally male and female mindsets... It is my understanding that there is a view, not universally shared, amongst psychologists which suggest that one of the differences between the male and female methods of processing information is that the male tends to see things in absolutes, in black and whites, while the female tends to experience the world around them as varying shades of grey.
Personally, I have experienced a dramatic shift in my thinking patterns having been taking hormones for some 7 months or so.
I used to hold the view, and espouse it to others ad nauseum, that every situation could, if analysed to a deep enough level, be reduced to a black or white position - this gave me a tidy, compartmentalised and ultimately simplistic mindset which allowed me to make sweeping generalisations and judgements about everything and everyone around me.
Now however I have found that, with no deliberate change of attitude on my part, that this has all gone out of the window. I now view the world as almost entirely made up of greys. I recognise that according to my mindset now, there is actually very little than can so easily be boiled down to black or white. This makes for a much more complicated and confusing but ultimately much more rewarding world around and about - it also means I now don't make sweeping judgements about others and am much more tolerant and able to see often many perspectives to situations where before I saw just one.
The world would be a much happier place if we could all embrace greys but, a year ago, I would have shouted this post down as ridiculous.
Just a thought
Miranda
I do wonder whether what we are observing here is the differences between fundamentally male and female mindsets... It is my understanding that there is a view, not universally shared, amongst psychologists which suggest that one of the differences between the male and female methods of processing information is that the male tends to see things in absolutes, in black and whites, while the female tends to experience the world around them as varying shades of grey.
Personally, I have experienced a dramatic shift in my thinking patterns having been taking hormones for some 7 months or so.
I used to hold the view, and espouse it to others ad nauseum, that every situation could, if analysed to a deep enough level, be reduced to a black or white position - this gave me a tidy, compartmentalised and ultimately simplistic mindset which allowed me to make sweeping generalisations and judgements about everything and everyone around me.
Now however I have found that, with no deliberate change of attitude on my part, that this has all gone out of the window. I now view the world as almost entirely made up of greys. I recognise that according to my mindset now, there is actually very little than can so easily be boiled down to black or white. This makes for a much more complicated and confusing but ultimately much more rewarding world around and about - it also means I now don't make sweeping judgements about others and am much more tolerant and able to see often many perspectives to situations where before I saw just one.
The world would be a much happier place if we could all embrace greys but, a year ago, I would have shouted this post down as ridiculous.
Just a thought
Miranda