Two things keep people from liking something:
1. Taste- and this may be the most important factor, for it changes less quickly as the other characteristic.
2. Experience- the only reason someone might not like something is because they have experienced something better that the former does not stand up to.
Now when someone tells me they don't like something, I figure it is because they know something much better, or more exciting. If I seek out what this may be, and find it to be less satisfying, then it has to do with taste, which I believe is shaped by accumulating experience. Thus experience can be shaped much more quickly than taste.
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Interesting -- I think some of the experience portion at least has to do a little more with negation, e.g., I've experienced something like this and have had bad experiences...I'm the same way with some things. It may be too black and white to suggest that someone necessarily has experienced something better, and there may be room to add a subcategory here, or a third category that deals with the context something's encountered in.
Example: Let's say that you're really digging book series X -- you've discovered it on your own, you're part of a select group that appreciates its "art" at even the tiniest level. Let's then say you take a class where this book is being used as a text, and your professor teaches it in a way that makes you strongly dislike/hate the book. You at one point enjoyed the experience in comparison to other books, and your tastes are still the "same," but this event has disrupted this one-to-one connection.
I really like this idea, but maybe it has to be a little more fluid for it to apply within all situations.
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Agreed. These are delicate little ideas, and are subject to much change and growth.
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