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Just woke up from a nap (I'm sick) where I dreamed that I was in a military FPS RPG game.  I kept messing up because I wasn't following the directions and because my team was hell-bent on completing the mission despite losing so many guys I was the last one remaining.


WHY?


Why does it seem that most people tend not to follow directions?  Or is that a false assumption?
I did a tidbit of research on whether or not people tend to follow directions and found the following articles which though slightly irrelevant (the best i could find tho in the couple minutes I spent) are still potentially interesting:


"A high percentage of doctors are not following national guidelines that could help them treat patients better. They don’t have enough information, time or readiness to change—or enough confidence in their ability to do everything the guidelines recommend, according to a new study." The study, unfortunately, is from 1999.
See article here: Study finds reasons doctors don’t follow directions



"Two-thirds of jurors in criminal trials do not fully understand the trial judge's legal directions, according to a study published today based on research carried out in England & Wales."
See article here: Two thirds of jurors don't follow directions, study suggests


And THAT is the extent of the somewhat relevant information I found.  Looks like somebody should do a massive psychological study.  Or maybe you know of one?  Let me know so we can post it up here.


Now I'm not trying to preach here.  I rarely follow directions because I think I know how to figure things out without them.  I don't even really like to follow directions if I'm 85% sure I know where I'm going.  Using a recipe, however, is something I do do.  


But I am interested in why or to what extent people don't.  


Do you follow directions?


BTW, another blogger wrote a great post on this topic.  See it here: http://beyondtheoutside.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/following-directions/