Most of the serious meditation people I've run into have been men. Is serious meditation actually gendered in this way or do I just have a skewed sample?
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The most serious at practically any endeavor are men even though the best women still handily beat the average man.
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I generally agree with this but for some reason it's more surprising for me when applied to meditation.
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It's not surprising to me at all. Women have stronger intuition but men have stronger willpower.
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I've more understood it as something like social vs systemic thinking being the primary gender division; I'm surprised by the willpower claim here. Do you have any studies on that?
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Nothing formal. But in general, it seems to me men are driven by conquest whereas women are driven by being able to identify, attract, and surrender to a worthy winner. Even at the biological/gamete level. The woman first shows interest/readiness, but the man makes the first move
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Ultimately it all comes down to the sperm-to-egg ratio and all correlates of this enormous asymmetry.
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