Your taste develops by trying things you don’t like. Eat the weird food. Listen to the old album.

Preferences sharpen by contrast. You cannot know what you like until you have met a fair amount of what you do not, and the dislikes are where the detail comes from: you find out it is not jazz you object to but one particular kind, not fish but the texture. A narrow diet of familiar things keeps your taste vague.

Say yes to three unfamiliar things this week, deliberately. The dish you cannot pronounce, an album made before you were born, a film with subtitles. Finish them, then say in one sentence what specifically worked or did not.