Judith Warner weighs in on the NYT article. Her concluding lines:
It seems to me that, from an early age, men seem to be quite clear about what expenditures of energy are worth their time. Like kids with A.D.D. (the majority of whom are boys), they’re able to spend great amounts of attention and energy on things they find interesting, but show considerable signs of challenge when it comes to tasks they find boring or personally unprofitable.
Is this really a problem? Women would probably say yes. But I doubt, somehow, that men are going to put a lot of energy into fixing it.
Is it a problem? Of course not! Success is all about figuring out what's important and what's not. People who go to fancy business school programs call this "time management," I believe. If your instinct is to "do as told" at every possible turn, of course you are going to get lapped by those who can distinguish between what's truly important and what's merely busywork. Busywork does not the stuff of success make.
Posted by mike at July 11, 2006 11:28 PM