Men seem to have a greater intellectual need, as it’s called.
You don’t see many women studying for no reason (philomath) or contributing without recognition.
Commenter backchecking makes a perceptive observation about the condition of idleness and how it affects men and women differently.
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You can destroy an engine by revving it without a load. Strange, but true, an engine can rev to 5,000 rpm under load and survive… 5,000 rpm without a load — it falls apart.
Which largely describes the female mind. Millennia of evolution have crafted a brain that can’t not be tasked.
Quite literally, idleness has been bred out. Slothful mothers don’t have offspring — or — if they do — that generation will be childless. (This category also includes mothers so neurotic that they ‘medicate’ themselves into passivity — booze, drugs, or both.)
(I’ve seen PLENTY of the latter.)
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The male is totally different critter. ‘Idleness’ for a man is often his most productive time.
The extreme examples:
Einstein famously slept (12-15 hours/day) and strolled (interminable bucolic walks)…
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