Some minds improve by travel others rather resemble copper wire or brass which get the narrower by going farther.
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow being repressed for so many millennia they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.