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How DNA Affects Almost Everything About You & Understanding Your Sense of Direction

Something You Should Know

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Are You Good at Finding Your Way Around?

Partly it is experience. People who grow up in the countryside tend, on average, to be better at finding their way around than people who live in the city. The one thing that is more important than anything in tracking your way across an era that you're unfamiliar with is attention. So when somebody with a good sense of direction gets it wrong, what went wrong? Your attention was taken up by something else. And being panicked when you don't know where you areit can't possibly help the situation,. but it does seem to be uniquely human to do that.

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