Some of your favorite songs were skips the first time. Give things a second listen.

First impressions are formed by whatever you were expecting, and something unfamiliar often registers as wrong simply because it is unfamiliar. The things that eventually matter most frequently arrive without an obvious hook, and on the first pass there is nothing for your attention to catch on. That is a fact about novelty, not about quality.

Go back to one thing you dismissed. A book, a person, a kind of work, a place. Give it a proper second attempt rather than a glance to confirm your earlier verdict. Some of it will still not be for you, and a few will surprise you.