Re: Can women be manly?

Description: What does it mean to think like a man?

Question: Can women be manly?

Transcript: Well, I try to think like a man, I think that’s one of the things that allowed me to get as far as I did get in my profession, but I never forgot that I was a women. So, I would always ask a man like this that disaster situation will end, I am terrified, I just scare and they would say, “God, yes we are scared, but we are men, we are not going to show it” and I thought “wow, I can pretend that I am scared” and maybe if I act courageous eventually I will be courageous and it little be a self appealing prophesy, and that’s pretty much what happened. You can learn some of the skills that men have and be more like them in a good way, and without loosing the things that make you inherently a strong women and then I think you have got the best of both roles. I think the women are wired to be good leaders, we just don’t use a lot of our skills and we don’t pick up the things that the men are doing really well, and learn some of those skills from them, when the women who do that, are very strong women.

Question: What does it mean to think like a man?

Transcript: Well, I mean if you look at the way then a man is, a man doesn’t know how to multitask, because he is not going to be giving birth to triplets, where multitasking would really be important. So he compartmentalizes his brain is filled with little drawer and he puts everything in these little drawers and he pull outs a drawer when its time to deal with whatever the contents says and when he is finish it he puts drawer back in, he doesn’t get distracted, and so he si focused. A women’s brain is like my chair in my bedroom, when I was going to college. All my cloths and possession where always heaped on this chair, and that’s kind of how women’s brain is, she has everything, is all mixed in, all mixed up and it is all like big big blab of thoughts and in work its probably better to be focused to get a job done and concentrate enough to do a good job with one task and then go on to the other, because if you have 14 balls in the air, and you dropped 12 of them, they are not go to remember. “Oh, he kept two balls in the air, they are going to go,” you dropped 12 balls, and they are broken, where a guy is only juggling one ball, so we get keep that ball going forever and pitch it, get it in the right hands, solve the problem and then get the next ball, and we can learn to do that its hard, it took me many many years to learn to do that, but we can learn that...

Recorded on: 2/29/08