I turned into the opposite for real world directions. I let google tell me where to go, only rarely deciding a different route on my own. And sometimes that's n

I turned into the opposite for real world directions. I let google tell me where to go, only rarely deciding a different route on my own. And sometimes that's not exactly a fully formed different route but I want to go via a certain way (e.g. non-freeway) and hope google updates the rest of its directions to accord to that wish. It's taken me on some weird paths but whatever. My excuse is that I grew up in Utah, which has a fairly consistent and ordered grid system with addresses almost always mapping to grid coordinates, so given an address you don't need any special directions. You might still go to a main road because it's faster, but you could instead optimize the Manhattan distance without effort. Traveling elsewhere with places so fond of nonsensical street names and non-grids, I gave up actively building a mental model (I have an ok spatial model of my surrounding area in Bellevue/Redmond but I've been here almost a decade...I have no idea where most of the street names in Seattle proper fall and haven't bothered to learn any of the mnemonics people have suggested) and let the machine tell me what to do.