Don't ignore preferences

Sometimes, I try to continue doing something which either I don’t like or I am neutral to it and just wish that I liked it more. A clear example of the former is running: I’ve disliked it as long as I remember but, barring those few situations when I didn’t have any other way to stay fit, I continued to run because I thought it’d be a cool activity to be good at. There are a lot more instances of the latter in my life. For e.g., reading a giant novel like Oathbringer or just some deeply philosophical book like The Brothers Karamazov, driving long distance on a motorcycle, etc.

Preferences are a good thing and I should rely on them more. If I don’t like something strongly, I shouldn’t feel compelled to continue doing it for the sake of doing it. Instead, I should just move on to something I truly enjoy. It’s not as if there is a dearth of such things and their purpose is to provide meaning to my life, so I should be okay skipping those that don’t.

One possible issue with the above is that, if done to an extreme, I may jump a lot and not “stick” with any one idea. This should be okay though because, at the end of the day, I only need to find out a small number of big things to fill my life and it’s fine if it takes some time to get there. There is also that idea that you think about 100 things, explore 10 and go deeper only in 1.