<p>I used to have this problem. It&#8217;s going to sound crazy, but it&#8217;s true.</p>
<p>I had road direction anxiety. Not road rage &#8212; more like road haze.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s how this worked: whenever I had to drive somewhere I hadn&#8217;t been to before, I would get so anxious I would completely freeze up. (This was in the pre-GPS days.) Road map? Great directions? Didn&#8217;t matter. I would become a basket case. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2012/03/how-i-lost-my-road-haze-by-john-david-mann/" title="Permanent Link: How I Lost My Road Haze By John David Mann" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1015,"date":"2012-03-20T00:30:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T05:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2015-07-25T22:55:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T03:55:34","slug":"how-i-lost-my-road-haze-by-john-david-mann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/03\/how-i-lost-my-road-haze-by-john-david-mann\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Lost My Road Haze By John David Mann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to have this problem. It&#8217;s going to sound crazy, but it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>I had road direction anxiety. Not road rage &#8212; more like road haze.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how this worked: whenever I had to drive somewhere I hadn&#8217;t been to before, I would get so anxious I would completely freeze up. (This was in the pre-GPS days.) Road map? Great directions? Didn&#8217;t matter. I would become a basket case. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/03\/how-i-lost-my-road-haze-by-john-david-mann\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: How I Lost My Road Haze By John David Mann\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}