Why men don't like "memorizing by heart"

I remember talking with a fellow Mensan some years ago who is now working in a technical job (a non-academic one). He told me that he was interested in becoming a physician, but then decided not to study medicine because he was bad at "memorizing by heart" at school. Now for me as a sixth year medical student this seems a bit absurd since you have to study so much for medicine that memorizing everything by heart (word by word) isn't a realistic option anyway. But I've got a theory why men don't like "memorizing by heart":

Men are always competitive and want to dominate others. So they want to show at school that they are better than the others. If it's about running 60 metres faster than others or about solving more mathematical problems correctly than others, then it's clear: it depends on your abilities. But if it's about studying theory, the only way to ensure that you'll score better than others at the exam (as you don't know the questions beforehand and thus don't know what exactly you should try to memorize most precisely) is to learn everything word by word. And that's exhausting, especially what you have to learn doesn't really interest you. So most men don't like it (unless they have an eidetic memory, perhaps, which hardly anybody has). They prefer things in which their abilities count.

Maybe girls and women have a different (and somewhat more mature?) approach to studying theory. I don't know exactly since being male myself, I can only speak for other males. 

Men have to learn that studying theory is not in order to show that you're better than the others but simply a part of the curriculum, and that they shouldn't take exams TOO seriously. Nobody will hurt you if you fail once, as you can repeat them several times.

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