Trying a new style and hating it is useful. Now you know one more thing that isn’t you.

Taste is found by elimination rather than by insight. You cannot think your way to what suits you, and the experiments that fail narrow the field just as usefully as the ones that work, which makes a hated haircut a completed experiment instead of a waste. The only real failure is never testing anything.

Try one thing this month that you are unsure about: a cut, a colour, a jacket, a different way of writing your name. Give it two weeks before judging. Then keep it or drop it, and count either outcome as information.