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I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Mike Mon. And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.

Today on the show, is GPS technology changing your brain? When people give me directions,

they're like, and then go three blocks and then you'll turn east. And I'm like, as if I know what

east is. Angela, do you ever stop to think what it would be like to live in another age?

Like maybe the Renaissance in Italy or the Roman Empire or the Wild West? No. That is such an

interesting question. I probably should stop to think about what it would be like to teleport to

another era in history. Well, here's the thing. I don't actually think about that much either,

but I just want to be clear that I'm 100% confident that basically in any other time, I would not

have survived. So I have glasses. I can't see well without them. I have health issues that require

modern medicine. But to top it all off, I have literally like no geographic intelligence. What?

Did I know this about you? Yes. I can get lost in my own neighborhood and never find my way home.

When I first moved to Boston, I decided to go for a run without my phone. And I figured out where to

run and how to get back. But I ended up miles away from where I thought I was. And I stopped to

ask someone for direction, told him where I lived and just asked him if he could point me how to

get home. And he just looked at me and was like, uh, that's really far away. And I was like,

right, I don't have a phone. I don't have a wallet. I have two legs. And that's how I'm going to

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