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# Ikea

### It IS possible to decode IKEA instructions, claim scientists: Spatial skills like reading maps and 3D design can be learned <https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2179193/You-CAN-stop-Ikea-instructions-driving-Knutstorp-Spacial-awareness-skill-like--learnt.html>

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* Spatial skills can be learned by people of any age
* Practice helps - but 3D videogames are also useful

Spatial skills - like reading maps and assembling Ikea chests of drawers - are a skill that can be learned.

Previously, it had been believed that some spatial skills couldn't be trained.<br>

The news may not be welcome to those who shirk such chores saying they 'just can't' read instructions or maps.