Training helps. When I first started square dancing I had to think really hard about which was my left hand. after a few years of dancing it became second nature.

Also, at the same time I was building pressure vessels and when you're reading the drawing you need it the right way up so that you can read the dimensions, but the vessel may be upside down and back to front. So I got really good at visualising in 3D in any orientation. So now I don't usually have to align a map.

Of course wives have their own techniques of frustrating any degree of training. Coming up to a junction Tree will say "Turn left" and when we get to the junction she'll say "Right here!"