Experience the moment before you rate it. Life isn’t a restaurant review.

Judging and experiencing run on the same channel, so doing one weakens the other. Deciding whether something is any good while it is still happening pulls you out into the position of an assessor, and the assessor is not in the room. Evaluation is not bad in itself, just a thing to do afterwards rather than during.

Delay the verdict once this week. At the concert, the meal, the trip, hold off on deciding whether it was worth it until it is over. Notice how the ranking instinct shows up early and how quickly it takes over. You can always decide it was mediocre tomorrow.