A Man's Drive...

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What drives a man? What makes him push to achieve new heights? What makes a man so focused and determined? The answer to this is simple -- a good challenge and his desire to succeed. No true man wants to lead a bum's life. Rather, a man needs to fulfil some sort of purpose or meaning in his life, irrespective of what that purpose may uniquely be. You see, a real man has goals and a "big picture" in mind. Accordingly, there is little that will come between such a man and his goal. On one extreme he will kill, lie, and/or cheat to reach his goal. On the other, he may be a text book man that plays strictly by the rules, but works hard within the framework he's provided to realize his eventual goal.

Out of this simple principle of determination, you have a lot of philosophies people adopt: Mind over matter. Where there is a will, there is a way. Just do it. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Etc. Not to exclude women from these not-so-gender-specific-anymore phrases, you must agree that mainstream society's depiction of these phrases are typically illustrated with men. Right or wrong, it just works out that way.

Given this rather impressive compulsion in man, we must ask ourselves: What, then, can actually derail a man from such powerful convictions? If a man is so goal-oriented, what could possibly serve as an impasse? In short, what is a man's downfall? The answer, I've always thought, is also rather simple -- women.

If you don't believe me, then perhaps you will be thankfully reassured that there is an actual study out there that was designed to prove this. The study -- conducted in what is sure to be a purely scientific environment -- discovered that "sexual cues" are distracting. Mind blogging, eh?

Indeed, an attractive woman can come into the picture and royally muck things up for a guy. He becomes suddenly distracted and (at least temporarily) loses sight of that big picture he once had. If you still don't believe me (i.e. if you're pretty stupid about things), then read this article from BBC that discusses the study that proved this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4921690.stm

Consider this from the article:
"Dr Siegfried DeWitte, one of the researchers who worked on the study, said: 'We like to think we are all rational beings, but our research suggests ... that people with high testosterone levels are very vulnerable to sexual cues.
'If there are no cues around, they behave normally.'
'But if they see sexual images they become impulsive.'"

Yeah right?! You're telling me that, clinically speaking, if a hot girl walks by a guy he is going to get distracted by it and become, dare we say, "impulsive"? I'm dumbfounded. This is entirely shocking.

So BBC, you're telling me that these guys wasted who knows how much money conducting who knows how stupid of a study to show that Girl = Distraction for Man?

Thank goodness for the scientific method. We'd be clueless and lost without it. Anyway, sorry for the banter here, but you can tell that I found it to be too funny to have actually read that there was a study conducted on the obvious.

(Note: Similar tests on women have been inconclusive so far. Go figure.)

Cheers