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Street took up the sport of orienteering at the age of nine. As his experiences suggest, childhood exposure shapes people's comfort and confidence with navigation. Kids having the opportunity to move independently around varied environments matters here. "Experiments with non-human animals suggest that passive motion is not that good because you don't basically pay attention," says Nora Newcombe, a psychology professor at Temple University in Philadelphia.
People who grew up outside cities, or in more spatially complex cities (think Prague rather than Chicago), also appear to be better able to navigate as adults. This is related to the distances travelled and the variety of areas traversed.
People who grew up outside cities, or in more spatially complex cities (think Prague rather than Chicago), also appear to be better able to navigate as adults. This is related to the distances travelled and the variety of areas traversed.
How to improve your sense of direction
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My wife can't fathom how sometimes in unfamiliar areas I will say if we turn here we should come out at or find _________, and we do. I can't explain how but after I see a map I can visualize it and navigate without it from just remembering the general layout.
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A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen -
I Play Hell Reading Maps, And Never Was Much Good At It.
To Make Matters Worse, When I Moved To Vegas, In The Early 1990's, The Population Was Under 500,00.... And Today It's Close To 4 MILLION... And I Sh*t You Not, Finding My Way Around Vegas Is An Impossibility. I Look Around And Have NO IDEA Where I Am......AND, CORONAL..The Vegas Cops Won't Allow Me To DO MACH 2 Any More.(LOL)...Hard To Forget~ And Even The Thought Of Cruising At MACH 2 Blows My Mind.!
I Play Hell Reading Maps, And Never Was Much Good At It.
To Make Matters Worse, When I Moved To Vegas, In The Early 1990's, The Population Was Under 500,00.... And Today It's Close To 4 MILLION... And I Sh*t You Not, Finding My Way Around Vegas Is An Impossibility. I Look Around And Have NO IDEA Where I Am......AND, CORONAL..The Vegas Cops Won't Allow Me To DO MACH 2 Any More.(LOL)...Hard To Forget~ And Even The Thought Of Cruising At MACH 2 Blows My Mind.!
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney I recall how amazed we were when at Red Flags in the 70s and 80s that they actually planned out much of that development. We actually missed a turn when looking for a restaurant once and ended up in an area with nothing but streets and building lots for as far as you could see.
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A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen -
And There It IS: Another Fun Memory To Add To The Collection,
And I'd Bet It WAS Fun Too. Especially After Having Done All That Work
And Watching As It Gradually Grew Into What You'd Helped Plant....
And There It IS: Another Fun Memory To Add To The Collection,
And I'd Bet It WAS Fun Too. Especially After Having Done All That Work
And Watching As It Gradually Grew Into What You'd Helped Plant....
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SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D
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LTC Marc King: No concern at all! It is the new norm under Biden's Educational ideologies - teach DEI, integrate all illegals into classrooms where the teachers need to spend more time trying to have them understand English thereby neglecting all other American children who are now years behind in reading comprehension. So you are in great shape trying to make sense out of the written word and fit right in with everyone else.
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Maj Robert Thornton
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No LTC Marc King, you’ ve been reading A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney posts. LMAO
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