Developing taste is an exercise in vulnerability: it requires you to trust your instincts and preferences, even when they don’t align with current trends or the tastes of your peers. Because while having taste is cool, taste itself reflects a certain type of uncool earnestness – a commitment to one’s own obsessions and quirks.

Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It

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Stopping to ask yourself, “why do I like this?” can give you answers that unlock even more than you initially thought. By slowly building up a strong sense of personal taste, it creates confidence in that taste.

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“I think many of us hide behind an idea of good taste,” she said, “because we’re afraid to really be ourselves.”

Ingrid Fetell Lee • Joyful: The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness

To me, the key to keeping taste is to be true to yourself. While I recognize that that sentiment would be more appropriate on a wine mom’s wall hanging, it is surprisingly hard. When no one cares about you and you make objects for the simple joy of creation, you’re under no pressure to conform your taste to anyone. When your audience grows—when art... See more

Mark Sabino • It’s All Sweetgreen

Notes on “Taste”

How to Develop "Good" Taste

Developing Taste

Ingrid Fetell Lee • Joyful: The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness

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