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Welcome back, readers. I've enjoyed my time away from the keyboard and got a bit of a mental refresher. I hope you have had time to do the same.
If you saw the title of this G.O. you may have started to wonder why I would lump two rather famous figures together and the reason is this - Recently New Scientist magazine interviewed Stephen Hawking and asked him what he thinks about the most. Hawkins responded: "Women. They are a complete mystery."
When I read that the first thing that popped into my head was a rather famous quote from Sigmund Freud: "The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'"
In many ways the two men are not particularly different. Both have found success in their fields during their lifetime and both have completely revolutionized specific areas of their field (Hawking revolutionized how we view the beginning of the universe and Freud revolutionized how we view the human psyche and its relation to our behavior). Both are considered to be supremely analytical minds. The question I pose is can we consider them both to be too analytical? While I feel women are complex I find that simply accepting that and moving on makes their complexity less of a curiosity. Is trying to unravel a woman's psyche a way to more effectively bridge the gap between the sexes, or is being able to do so a fundamental protection of romance, a subject now strongly imprinted upon the survival of our species as a whole?
Maybe this is something that only poets have figured out: "A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her heart's inspiration." - Edmondo De Amicis - Poet/Writer
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