Improve your sense of direction

Life Kit

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🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Do you feel like you always need to use GPS to get around? Never quite sure if it's a left or a right turn — even though you just looked at a map? It can be anxiety-inducing to get around when you don't have a great sense of direction. This episode, experts explain how to gain more confidence while navigating.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Life Kit from NPR.
0:07.0	Hey, what's up everyone?
0:09.0	Andrew Limbong here in for Mariel Segara.
0:11.3	The other day I had to run an errand. It wasn't crazy far from where I live in
0:17.1	Baltimore, it was just in a part of town I don't go to all that often. So I hopped
0:21.5	into the car and performed that ritual I
0:23.7	imagine a lot of us do. Before the seatbelts, before checking the mirrors, before
0:27.9	even turning the car on. All right, where am I going? Where is this place? I
0:31.5	plug the address into my phone.
0:33.2	One oh two one Delaney Valley.
0:36.2	Put it on the little holder thingy on the dash and then and only then off I went.
0:41.2	It's a little ridiculous if you think about it.
0:46.0	I was headed to a local college campus.
0:48.0	It's not out of the way on some hidden backstreet.
0:51.0	It's on a main strip.
0:52.0	And there are a bunch of signs around it being like,
0:54.3	the college campus is this way. And yet, though I would have loved to have spent this
0:59.7	beautiful spring drive with the windows down bumping vampire weekend
1:03.5	uninterrupted in the whip because I don't have a great sense of direction.
1:07.5	I was at the mercy of Google Maps.
1:09.6	I was at the mercy of Google Maps.
1:12.4	Because without it, not only would I be lost,
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