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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.
from It’s All Sweetgreen by Mark Sabino
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- If you mention taste nowadays, a lot of people will tell you that "taste is subjective." They believe this because it really feels that way to them. When they like something, they have no idea why. It could be because it's beautiful, or because their mother had one, or because they saw a movie star with one in a magazine, or because they know it's ... See more
from Taste for Makers by Paul Graham
The idea of taste became a series of ever more granular preferences, liking A instead of B, rather than a deeper-seated, holistic sense of self.
from Filterworld by Kyle Chayka
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- Taste is about discovery, having interest in things, and making a lot of mistakes. It’s about trying to find the authentic set of choices that both reflect your own background, but also the choices and discoveries that you have made consciously and deliberately. It's always changing and it's also always in reflection of what everyone else is doing ... See more
from RLT Interview #4: W. David Marx, Writer by Tahirah Hairston
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The lesson: Just like the origami builders, Sumi and I too have an egocentric bias. Our taste is most likely just our taste, and very few people share it—but it was hard for us to truly appreciate and understand this.
from Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations (TED 2) by Dan Ariely
Our tastes are learned in the context of immense social influences, whether from our family, our friends, or the cheery font on a bottle of soda. Yet it’s still possible, as Duncker showed, to carve out new tastes for ourselves. We can put the impressionable nature of our likes to good use. If we expose ourselves enough times to enough different fo
... See morefrom First Bite: How We Learn to Eat by Bee Wilson
