Relaxing in a cafe in Edinburgh today, I noticed the Times "Body and Soul" section and decided to take a look. I was a bit disappointed, I have to say. There seemed to be a big preponderance of seeking explanations. The thing is, explanations are all very interesting, but in terms of personal growth, they're not much help.
Take the whole women-like-pink-and-men-like-blue thing. I gathered from an article in the aforementioned supplement that there's just been a study published that puts forward a theory, based on evolutionary psychology, which explains this. Prehistoric women, it seems, evolved to be drawn towards the pinkish tones of things they foraged for, while men were drawn towards stuff like blue skies.
Leaving aside any discussion of how abjectly absurd and contrived this might sound in itself, let's suppose it's true. So bloody what? How in the name of anything does this knowledge help anything?
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