Why Boys Brains Are Like Waffles


The Waffle Analogy

Boys have waffle brains. This is funny to explain, but just as funny as explaining that girls have spaghetti brains. Funny or quirky, the waffle analogy is a perfect explanation for the way guys think or the way they don't think that sometimes baffles and frustrates girls. 

 You see, guys  have boxes in their heads - different storage spaces for different thing: Cars, family, food, computer issues. Each space for one thing and one thing alone.  If a guy is in one compartment, that is all he focuses on. If he's watching T.V, he's in the T.V box. When he's in the garage, he's in the garage box. Sometimes, in between these boxes the guys have what's known as their blank box. This is the stress reliever box. A box without words or thoughts where guys can just go and park their brains for while. If you've ever noticed your brother, or uncle, or guy friend sitting on a couch somewhere and they seem to have completely zoned out, they're in their blank box. It's incredible to think that it's possible for a person to focus on only a thought at a time, at least for girls it would be, but it's true, and that is what makes guys great problem solvers. They settle in a box with a certain problem, assess the problem, and proffer a solution to it. If they can't fix the problem immediately, they move on to another box and leave that problem for later. The reason for this is because guys dislike feeling like failures at anything. So if he sees that he can't fix the problem at that moment, he moves on and leaves it for another time when he'll be better equipped to fix it. These three things - problem solving, the failure factor, and moving into another box are reasons why conversations like these happen:

Guy: Hey, how was class today? (Friend box)
Girl: It was great, except the fact that Anne literally wore the same shirt as me today.
Guy: Oh..she did?
Girl: Yes! And she had the audacity to sit right next to me in chem.
Guy: Well...maybe you shouldn't wear the same shirt again (Problem solving in Family Box)
Girl: (Taken back) Not wear my shirt? she shouldn't wear hers! How dare she?
Guy: well...uh, I don't know (Blank Box)
Girl: You're not even helping
Guy: Why is this so important to you? It's just a shirt! (Frustration because he's been unable to solve the problem and now wants to move to another box)

Girls probably don't like conversations like these, because here she needed emotional support and probably to hear something like "hers is probably just an old shirt",  but he didn't realize that, and was only trying to solve what he saw as a problem she had. 








Comments

Post a Comment

We would love to hear your comments

Popular posts from this blog

OUR UTOPIA - Our Journals #1

Image
OUR UTOPIA - by Damola Olagunju Music. Music doesn’t just sing to the ears It dances with the soul We connect with the type of music we listen to in some way We find ways to imagine and relate with the songs we love Everyone fancies a type of music It could be the sounds your feet makes as it fights the ground that makes you want to dance Or the annoying sounds flies make when buzzing around you It could be the soothing sounds of the wind as they ignore but disturb the trees. Music doesn’t have to have lyrics to amuse you I don’t think there is a thing as a meaningless song A song could be chanting gibberish for all I care As long as it gets my soul grooving It is Music. Love Love isn’t easy We all know that but do you believe that? Love takes commitment Like seriously a lot of it. Love is cliché but not all clichés are silly For example the interesting cliché of college dropouts being incre
Read more

Scientists Have Figured Out Why Shoelaces Untie Themselves!

Image
     So, your shoelaces weirdly untie themselves while you're running, or walking, and you end up tripping. We've mostly come to accept this as normal, even though it is a bit tiring to have to stop every few meters to retie a pair of especially slippery laces.  Why though, do shoelaces untie themselves so easily? Researchers  at University Of California Berkely - Graduate student Christine Gregg, Christopher Daily-Diamond and their professor Oliver O'Reily teamed together to find out.. They eventually published their findings on April 12 in Proceedings of the Royal Society A. The trio decided they would try to figure it out by recording Christine Gregg, a co-author of the study, and also a runner on a treadmill while she ran. Capturing the movements of her feet with a  camera that took 900 frames per second.      They noticed that as Christine ran, her feet hitting the floor of the treadmill struck the ground at about seven times the force of gravity. The knot stre
Read more

Alessia Cara - A Reminiscence

Image
Alessia Caraciollo,  known by Alessia Cara, the name we've all come to love her by is turning twenty one today and the pop star from Missisauga has gone a long way from you tube videos to releasing her first album. The down-to-earth, and relatable now legal adult, with the loved voice impersonations, released her album Know-it-all two years ago and has gotten a massive amount of  feedback on it. Her album touched deeply on the teen experience and took emotions, personal experiences, things that we'd all dealt with at some point or another and turned it into this playlist of songs you had to listen to on repeat, because of how much you felt it. Not to mention her beautiful voice, for those of us who are obsessed! Since then, it's  been uphill for her.We realize it's been quite a journey for the twenty one year old and would like to commemorate her day with something to inspire teens, inspired by her mission to spread a message through her music. So, we talked to
Read more