Compounding Wealth By Capitalizing On Boomer Gender Differences - Part I
I want to begin by identifying the differences between the male & female brain and then capitalizing on them to build wealth thru better family communication. This is so critical because as a financial advisor I've seen a host of couples come to my office with disparate incomes, disparate spending habits, disparate risk tolerances, disparate inherited wealth and disparate everything, but I've never been in a situation where these differences can't be forged, and any kinds of strife be conquered in terms of building greater wealth. I've often found that working with men and women, it's a terrific 1+1 makes 3 opportunity in that men's brains are hard wired in a very different way than are women's.
We'll talk about some behavior patterns and importance of good communication & goal setting so we can get down to very, very interesting and life fulfilling conversations that can enhance our wealth untold amounts. So we first need to understand the differences in the male brain & the female brain.
The brain is divided into two hemispheres the left & the right. Women's brains tend to be more densely packed with neurons. Women use more parts of their brains to accomplish tasks. Men do their thinking in more focused parts of the brains no matter what the subjects, solving math problems, reading a book or feeling anger or sadness. Men are more left brain dominant.
Women have more connection between the two hemispheres, the left side talks and listens to the right. It is the main bridge between the left and the right hemispheres.
The Corpus Callosum is a bundle of nerve cells which is the main bridge between the left and right brain
hemispheres, and it is the key to intellectual development.
It happens that the women's Corpus Callosum is 23% larger than men's. However, a big corpus callosum does not make one smarter. Since men's corpus callosum takes up less volume than women's, the two hemispheres communicate less in a male than in a female.
Women are so much better at multi-tasking than men. Does that mean that women are of the better species? No it doesn't. It just means that men tend to focus in on one hemisphere of the brain, in one area. They don't go back and forth like women do. The neurons go back & forth in a woman's brain, so she is able to do many things at one time, unlike the man who needs to think on one thing, focus on one thing, and then alternately move onto the next thing.
Women's language abilities tend to be greater due to the fact that the left analytical part is enriched by the
emotional right part which goes back to my assertion that they can multitask....they can think and do, think and do because the neurons go back and forth over the corpus callosum.
What does that all mean? It means that it affects communication patterns - the man focuses on one subject, goes right to the problem solving, and goes right to the bottom line, whereas women want the details-c'mon...give me all the inside information. Women are not happy or satisfied with just here's the issue, fix the problem. The right part of the brain is responsible for emotions where women tend to have more neurons, more activity. The left brain is more responsible for verbal abilities.
Just because women are better at speaking their thoughts and feelings, it doesn't mean that men don't have that capacity. They do, just that .they're not as connected to the emotional aspect, which is more right brain. Men need to work at that aspect of development, and can often benefit by seeking out a qualified and licensed psychotherapists for valuable tools, because without professional help, it's often a very steep and daunting learning curve.
Typically women use 20,000 words a day, while men use only 7,000 words a day, so clearly different types of communication are evident in heterosexual relationships--they are not the same certainly but it's all communication. We need to understand when men say something, what they mean, and when women say something, what they mean. There's a lot of validity in each approach, but they are different.
I can't stress strongly enough the importance then, of seeking out a professional in communication, to help
couples through this very important difference. No amount of quality financial planning or asset management can happen without good communication. I often encounter couples not really understanding what the other really means because their ways of explaining themselves are different.
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