Word: lost
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...using landmarks. At some point, my students and I had the idea of trying to do some similar experiments with human beings. Compared to any animal that I've ever studied or read about, I would say that the average urban person kind of wanders around in a semi-lost state. In traditional way-finding cultures like the Inuit in the Arctic or the Australian Aborigines, getting lost meant losing your life. And that's usually not the case with us. (Read "A Brief History...
...that they cultivate an exquisitely fine eye for visual detail. They just plain notice stuff. And a lot of the time in our everyday life, we don't. Everybody encounters people from time to time who say, "I have a wonderful sense of direction. I never get lost." And if you really ask them what it is that they're doing, then that eye for detail is often one of the first things that emerges. People who are exceptionally good way-finders seem to notice [their surroundings] more...
...mentioned how "You Are Here" signs can actually make people feel more lost. Can you explain why that is? For a "You Are Here" map to work, it's almost universally true that the upwards direction on the map has to translate to the direction in front of you. And if it's not, it's worse than...
...years. Every time my family revisits the neighborhood, I’m forced to subsist on a teasing peek into the backyard. The sense of voyeurism hardens the feeling of having been cheated of what was once mine. That treehouse stands as a testament to a past built and lost by my grandfather...
...wanted him to feel, despite the death of a woman he had served with patience and grace for more than half a century, that he possessed significance for me, that he was responsible for the person I was today. I wanted to give him the agency he had lost...