{"id":7580,"date":"2024-06-19T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/753730914124759040-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:42:12","slug":"753730914124759040-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/753730914124759040-2\/","title":{"rendered":"753730914124759040"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf='{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/why-do-some-people-always-get-lost-180984152\/\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/why-do-some-people-always-get-lost-180984152\/\",\"title\":\"Why Do Some People Always Get Lost?\",\"description\":\"Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction\",\"site_name\":\"Smithsonian Magazine\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"084c12f4dfacac5e99ee2f0289a73c2f:cfaaf789b858b0f1-82\",\"type\":\"image\/jpeg\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":1200}]}'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/why-do-some-people-always-get-lost-180984152\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Do Some People Always Get Lost?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cResults like these suggest that an individual\u2019s life experience may be one of the biggest determinants of how well they navigate. Indeed, experience may even underlie one of the most consistent findings\u2014and clich\u00e9s\u2014in navigation: that men tend to perform better than women. Turns out this gender gap is more a question of culture and experience than of innate ability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Do Some People Always Get Lost? \u201cResults like these &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12749],"tags":[582,655,1367,802,1235,752,2320,741,370,7689,705,638,3,617,2984,3683,2255],"class_list":["post-7580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-awareness","tag-ceo","tag-consciousness","tag-creative","tag-idea","tag-influencer","tag-life","tag-lost","tag-mind","tag-money","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-quotes","tag-self-awareness","tag-self-conscious","tag-self-realization"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>753730914124759040 - 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