Everything is worth watching. Find out if you like it. If you don’t, that isn’t wasted time, that’s you defining your taste.
There’s this strange idea that engaging with things we don’t like is somehow a bad thing, but the net result is that we lose the ability to discern our own tastes if we only reference a consensus of others.
Asking crowds is asking for a consensus, an average. You are not average, you are exceptional and specific.
Yes, your time is precious, but you owe it to yourself to use that time to figure out who you are.
Perhaps, though, there is a use to phrasing questions like “I really enjoyed X, what else would you recommend?”. That gives you agency if directing your consumption of media, and art.
That’s a bit rough, but here’s my honest answer.
Everything is worth watching. Find out if you like it. If you don’t, that isn’t wasted time, that’s you defining your taste.
There’s this strange idea that engaging with things we don’t like is somehow a bad thing, but the net result is that we lose the ability to discern our own tastes if we only reference a consensus of others.
Asking crowds is asking for a consensus, an average. You are not average, you are exceptional and specific.
Yes, your time is precious, but you owe it to yourself to use that time to figure out who you are.
Perhaps, though, there is a use to phrasing questions like “I really enjoyed X, what else would you recommend?”. That gives you agency if directing your consumption of media, and art.