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[โ€“] aidenn0@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Some thoughts:

  1. One of my kids will clearly decide if they like a new food or not long before it touches their tongue. It seems unlikely that she will have completely outgrown doing that by the time she is 18

  2. Throwing yourself into something more fully can qualitatively change the experience. Wallflowers may not enjoy social events; people awkwardly half-participating in things due to embarrassment can be less happy than both those who participate whole-heartedly and those who abstain.

  3. I'll treat this as my reminder to retry reading Moby Dick (which I do about once-per-decade in case I start enjoy it like so many of those in my social circles)

[โ€“] dynomight@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Deciding if you'll like something before you've tasted it is a great example. Probably we all do that to some degree with all sorts of things?

P.S. Instead of Moby Dick try War and Peace!