Anecdotal, but as soon as someone starts giving me directions my brain taps out of the responsibility. I have great spatial awareness, and a decent memory for s

Anecdotal, but as soon as someone starts giving me directions my brain taps out of the responsibility. I have great spatial awareness, and a decent memory for spatial landmarks. But even if you are giving me directions to somewhere I always go, I will miss turns I know to take because I have subconciously disengaged from the task of pathfinding. I am reminded of the pilot control handover procedure, where you exchange control explicitly by saying "Your airplane", "my airplane". If you were giving me directions and then assume I have got the rest if the way, you have hand the task back over!