Some 500 years ago, even blondes could not afford to flirt, saying: "I have topographic cretinism! I could not find in the woods a hollow where I usually hide the loot." The ability to navigate in those beautiful years was a matter of survival, therefore There was no time to play the fool-you had to consult with the stars, then with the moss, to get from point A to point B. And, it should be noted, the ladies did it well.To turn men into superhumans, as usual, men prevented. ivnye cards, they saved us (and me too) of the need to think on their own and this is the result:. every year more and more people are experiencing panic attacks if their car navigation or smartphone suddenly fails.
Without the steering wheel and without the wind
The good news is that absolutely all people, regardless of their age, religion and culinary preferences, have a "spatial intelligence" - the ability to orient themselves even in unfamiliar places. "The bad news: because of historical injustice, women's sense of direction is not developed as well as men's. : while the harvesters, combing the forests in search of food, actively developed their right hemisphere (it is responsible for the ability to navigate), the women wandered around the caves, learning to notice but it misses the opportunity to develop spatial imagination.Therefore, for thousands of years, representatives of the stronger sex easily operate with global landmarks ("This is the best sports bar in the north-east of Alsace"), and women in their attempts to determine their coordinates often use local and often modern understandable signs ("I'm stuck between the store, where always tacitly, and our favorite cafe ").
German scientists have found another explanation for women's difficulties with orientation on the terrain: simply in your body, unlike the male, there is not enough testosterone - a hormone, which, among other things, also affects the ability to find the right ways. There is nothing to console you and the assistant professor of psychiatry Veronica Bobot from McGill University: during the long-term observations she found out that by throwing paper cards and relying on technique, you literally squandered the nature of the pathfinder given to you by nature. Seeing only the screen of the GPS navigator, and not paying attention to the surrounding reality, modern people involuntarily provoked a decrease in their own hippocampus-the part of the brain that is responsible for spatial orientation and long-term memory. However, everything is not lost: in order to restore the natural abilities of the experiment, use them.
Configure your internal navigator and stop, finally, get lost in life will help you unpretentious tricks.
Explore the map
Before you go somewhere to travel, you need to study the map of the area, the features of nature.
Try new
If you are trailing day by day the same way of the child to work, try to make a difference in your life - a new pathway, to somehow stir up your topographical gift.
Change the angle of view
If you regularly lose your own car in the parking lot, try, while you go to the entrance to the supermarket, look back at your favorite every 15 seconds. Seeing the car from different angles and assessing its position relative to buildings and trees, you will sooner or later remember where it will be waiting for you.
Look closely at the Kedetals
It is necessary to pay attention to the various details. Maybe some kind of odor or a special tree.
Watch the time
Moving along an unfamiliar territory, pay attention to how much time you spend in order to reach the store, the intersection, the roads ... And also how long it takes to get back on the way back.
Come up with a story
Learning is the best way to consolidate knowledge about the road, especially for girls with modest orientations. Pokazhiteshsya in a new area for you, try to think up a story, using the oncoming objects.
Play the HQ
In order not to get lost in an unfamiliar city, for example, a start-up, on the very first day you should appoint a special house, a street or an area with your "base." The more often you return to this "home" point during the walks, the faster you will get it in your head mental map of the city.
Take pictures
If you find yourself in an unfamiliar place or another city, photograph all the new, new streets. You will pay attention to small things, and also on the taken pictures you can find the necessary road.
Relax
People with poor ability to orient themselves are usually in hysterics from the thought that they will have to travel around the road in some unknown way. And they make it worse. When people are frightened, they instinctively begin to move faster. As a result, the wrong route is always chosen.