Learn what you genuinely enjoy before algorithms and crowds decide for you.

Preferences are increasingly supplied rather than discovered. What you watch, read, listen to, and want gets shaped by recommendation and by whatever is popular around you, and it happens smoothly enough that it feels like taste. The result can be a set of enjoyments that are not really yours.

Go find something without a recommendation this month. An old book chosen at random, a place nobody suggested, an interest with no community attached. Notice whether you actually like it. The exercise is less about the thing than about remembering that you are capable of choosing without a prompt.