Joe Rogan
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Doesn't have any craftsmanship.
I never understood getting lost in the wilderness.
I didn't understand it.
I can understand not knowing where you are, but I never understood getting lost.
Well, you must have learned how to use a compass early.
If the sun comes up in the morning and you're facing it, then behind you is west, to your left is north, to your right is south.
Some people have zero experience in the woods, though.
People tend to loop, often counterclockwise, when lost because small errors in our internal sense of straight ahead accumulate.
And humans also have a subtle left-turn counterclockwise bias whose exact cause is still unclear.
Isn't that weird?
That's so weird.
In lab and field experiments, blindfolded people tend to walk straight without landmarks, almost always end up curving into large loops instead of moving in a straight line.
People told, rather, to walk straight without landmarks.