This is really foreign to me. Direction has never really been a question. I grew up rural. Direction, where north is, etc... got built in early. Long hikes

This is really foreign to me. Direction has never really been a question. I grew up rural. Direction, where north is, etc... got built in early. Long hikes into the hills, canyons. By teen age years, most of us had the whole place mapped. Today, I still can catch myself orienting, picking up references. When I travel abroad, I experience this massive orientation for a while, placing everything new with reapect to that which is known. As a very young person, direction was a part of memory. I can tell you which direction all our houses faced and what was nearby. Late 60's and early 70's were when those defining times happened. Maps made immediate sense. If I were to struggle with this today, losing the tech is one option, but augmenting senses in the ways mentioned are likely to have better outcomes. If you value these things, you want to grok, in the sense Heinlein meant. Make it an intrinsic part of you, automatic. One of my favorites is sitting in an airplane. Front seats are different from kiddle and rear ones too. But, when I concentrate, I can feel the course changes, look out the window, identify the center point of a turn... I feel this is something, this direction awareness, almost all of us can improve on. Worth it. Seems to me apps can help here. Give people aural, haptic feedback and just have them place their phone consistently.