Type with the best sense of direction?

[Tiltyred]

Turn me around twice and I'm lost in my own back yard. I have zero sense of direction. Thank God for Mapquest, with verbal instructions, too, 'cause I can't read a map.

 

[Nonsensical]

Definitely a Sensing ability...and I wouldn't be surprised if SPs are the winners.

 

[JRT]

I use google maps whenever I go somewhere new. I memorize the directions or write them down. I never have any problems. Street view works even better for me. Google Maps and a good pair of glasses work well when you're lost

 

[Nonsensical]

Sometimes, I like to just go out, with no directions, and find my way, eventually..it's a great experience.

 

[JRT]

Sometimes, I like to just go out, with no directions, and find my way, eventually..it's a great experience.

I love doing this! It's a lot of fun and you never know what you can find along the way!

 

[Risen]

I dunno. I use my intuition a lot when it comes to finding my way around unfamiliar places, and it always serves me well. Otherwise, I take whatever directions are available...

 

[Apollanaut]

^Yay you proved my point. I'm the same type as you (and even the same enneagram type and wing and stacking) and I have a horrible sense of direction. Most often I have no idea where I'm going unless I've taken the route multiple times.

I have a theory (of course I do; I'm an INFJ) that some humans may be able to sense the Earth's magnetic field and use it to aid navigation, in a similar manner to the way birds do. Whatever, this seems to be a randomly distributed talent that has little to do with type (though I do know an INTJ female who has an even better direction sense than I do).

 

[Apollanaut]

I would suggest that NP types have the most trouble distinguishing left from right. When my ENTP partner gets this wrong (every time!) I've taken to telling him: "No! the other left"!

 

[Nonsensical]

I would suggest that NP types have the most trouble distinguishing left from right. When my ENTP partner gets this wrong (every time!) I've taken to telling him: "No! the other left"!

Hah, I do this quite frequently..I also get mixed up when a person is facing me, and is trying to get me to distinguish my right from their right..which is surprisingly on the same side! Who knew!

 

[Jack Flak]

I have a theory (of course I do; I'm an INFJ) that some humans may be able to sense the Earth's magnetic field and use it to aid navigation, in a similar manner to the way birds do. Whatever, this seems to be a randomly distributed talent that has little to do with type (though I do know an INTJ female who has an even better direction sense than I do).

I have a lot of iron in my blood, so in certain states of being, I'll swing North.

 

[Apollanaut]

I have a lot of iron in my blood, so in certain states of being, I'll swing North.

 

[BlueScreen]

Sometimes, I like to just go out, with no directions, and find my way, eventually..it's a great experience.

I do this too.

Maybe SJs are best because they remember their left from right .

I know I don't have a bad sense of direction. My sister who is ISFP has a really good ability to follow her nose though. Enough that if you ask which way we are going she doesn't have a clue, but will get there with no mistakes.

 

[Wild horses]

Maybe SJs have such a great sense of direction because they are sooo observant as mentioned in another thread..

 

[ThatsWhatHeSaid]

Whatever type this little bad boy is.

 

[Apollanaut]

Whatever type this little bad boy is.

ESHP (Extremely Sensitive Homing Pigeon)

 

[Sture]

I have a super sense of direction. That's why I love walking around new cities (especially at night). I was in Atlanta about a month ago (also went out to decatur) when I had a day long layover there. I did as I always do, letting curiosity pull me around while exercising my Ne and Si, not being disturbed by having to memorise street names or worry about getting lost. It's almost like meditation. I love it.

Maybe SJs have such a great sense of direction because they are sooo observant as mentioned in another thread..

If they find their way because they're observant it's not their sense of direction they're using. All of you people talking about SPs I think are totally on the wrong track. You guys are not talking about sense of direction, you are talking about noticing and remembering physical things, which the SPs may well be the best at.

 

[tnem]

I have always had an impeccable sense of direction.

 

[PureWhispers]

I'm pretty known for my sense of direction. The first time I went to NYC I learned my way around and remembered where oddly specific places were after just a couple of hours. My friend from New Jersey whom I met up with couldn't remember how to get to certain places she'd been to before that I'd only seen in passing just once. I'm also usually dead-on accurate with cardinal directions.

I think my college friends see me as a human alternative to Google Maps.

 

[garbage]

My sense of direction is pretty spot on, but I can't describe how to get to places worth a damn. But because of the latter, it took me a long time to trust the former.

 

[nozflubber]

I think this is more about spatial relations than type.... helps to have a sort of "built in" GPS as jock or w/e said it. or if it is about type, its how strong your sensing abilities are