Male Sense of Direction - Will it change?

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Hm. What am I then? I've never been lost (and I've been in a whole lot of strange places), and yet I never know where I am or how I got there.

You are a Zen master .

More seriously: Like many stereotypes, that one I cited above is a quick and dirty way to get a handle on something, but falls apart once you study it more closely.

In general, men have an overview over the area and navigate by the cardinal directions, while women navigate by landmarks and other distinctive features. Some women navigate in the "typically male" fashion, whereas some men navigate in the "typically female" fashion, and some of both genders do neither or both or something else entirely.