Is Your GPS Helping or Hurting You?
When I recently read that my GPS might be hurting me more than helping, I was a bit put off because I love my GPS! I was relieved as I read on that I didn’t have to give up my GPS all together but I now realize that I shouldn’t totally rely on it all the time. It seems that our brains need to figure out where we are and where we are going for it to remember how to map things. In other words; when it comes to the part of your brain that navigates, you have to use it or loose it. One of the worst things I could think that could happen is not to be able to get myself back to familiar ground if I ever get lost so I don’t want to “loose it”!
So my household has decided that unless we are traveling into territory that we have never traveled before, we will use the GPS. However, if we just need to map a place that we are familiar with we go back to the map and figure it out. This way we keep those brain cells firing so we don’t forget how to navigate while feeling more relaxed when we travel to areas we just know nothing about. I think it’s the best of both worlds.