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Improve Taste for Life

1. Intro

Goal: Improve my taste for life. To make the question more clear

  • What is taste
  • What is the life quality measurement
  • How taste influence life quality
  • How much would it cost

2. What is Taste

Preference, sensitivities, discernments across various aspects of life

  • Arts
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Fashion
  • Social interaction

About things you find enjoyable, meaningful, valuable

3. How to Measure

Different for different aspect

  • Culture: appreciation for diverse culture, empathy, understanding
  • Aesthetic: appreciation for art, music, literature
  • Culinary: appreciation for food, social interaction
  • Style: creating pleasing personal and living space

Overall: Have a good life, enjoyable, happy, fulfill

4. Cost

Based on activities

  • Low cost: reading books, visiting museums, learning through online course
  • Moderate cost: attending concerts, theater performance, traveling domestically, taking part-time classes
  • High cost: international travel, purchasing original art, dining at high-end restaurants

5. How to Acquire

Expose to different thing

6. Plan

I plan to first improve my taste for the following fields

  • Music
  • Art
  • Movie
  • Food
  • Dressing

For each part, I would go through the following steps

  1. Understand the genre
  2. Make a table to comment
  3. Expose to them

7. Question

Subjective and Objective

欣赏美食、音乐和艺术的本质是什么,是人对自己的偏好的肯定吗?还是对别人呈现的作品的肯定?我有这样的疑惑是因为我在学习欣赏的时候,感觉很多时候不知道应该以什么为标准,如果以自己当前的偏好为标准,那么我的欣赏和品位就是我过去人生的经验的总和,但是如果以别人的偏好为标准,那就因人而异,完全无法进行有效的欣赏了