EASY WAY TO REMEMBER HOW TO USE YOUR SCREWDRIVER
[a screwdriver is unscrewing a screw by turning counter-clockwise]
The LEFT liberates the screw from its oppression
[a screwdriver is screwing a screw by turning clockwise]
The RIGHT tightens the screw’s place in the social order imposed to it
When you are asked to turn left or right, you instinctively know where to turn your body. Now, imagine you are looking at it from above, seeing yourself from the top. When you turn left or right, your head and the rest of your body turn in a specific direction, which should be easy to visualize. That’s the same movement in which you’d turn a valve / turn a steering wheel / rotate a screwdriver when asked to turn it left or right.
Not everyone has this instinct. There are many people who are unable to differentiate left from right. For those people, this doesn’t really work. I’m in my thirties and I still give shitass directions because I suck at telling left from right. I can do cardinal directions pretty well as long as I have a reference like some mountains, but like, I still have to think about left versus right.
I posted this elsewhere in this thread, but the only thing that’s ever worked for me was the right hand rule, where you use your right hand to physically demonstrate to yourself which way a screw needs to go.
Also, TIL that there’s a specific term for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-right_confusion