Take something you don’t like and try to like it

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271 points surprisetalk | 2 comments | 02 Sep 25 12:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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esafak ◴[02 Sep 25 13:35 UTC] No.45102924[source]▶

Or don't, and cultivate taste, which is about having a rationale for separating the good from the bad -- and disliking stuff. It might not make you popular at parties though.

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williamdclt ◴[02 Sep 25 13:42 UTC] No.45103013[source]▶

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I think that's orthogonal. The author is not saying that everything in every field is good: their TV example explicitly calls out bad TV.

What they are saying is that you can make yourself enjoy a field _at all_, in which you can then apply taste. For example I don't like whisky, but that's not a matter of me applying "good taste": I would never claim that whisky is bad in general and if I really tried I'm pretty sure I would start being able to enjoy whisky and separate the good from the bad (at least subjectively).

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1. xenobeb ◴[02 Sep 25 22:52 UTC] No.45110152[source]▶

>>45103013 #

Taste isn't static over time either.

My favorite thing is to rediscover something I thought in the past was terrible only to now find I love it.

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2. harperlee ◴[03 Sep 25 08:16 UTC] No.45113409[source]▶

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What about the converse: showing your significant other e.g. the best film ever, only to discover with horror how bad your taste was a number of years ago?

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