Justin Dickinson
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I believe you can make a choice in how you feel about new things. You can choose to like new things by default, and only change that opinion if you are overwhelmed the other direction by your experience. I also believe this is the opposite of how most people think. I think most people are naturally skeptical or negative toward new things until overwhelmed the other direction. Next time new-ness is upon you, try it out.

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You Can Like Things | Chris Coyier

I totally agree with Chris. It’s as easy, and as suspicious, to hate everything as it is to think everything is awesome. Form your own opinion based on experience rather than popularity or what’s in the Zeitgeist.

There’s a tendency among the kind of people I know—smart, sophisticated, good-taste-having people—to automatically hate a thing if it’s popular, like mass acceptance is a stigma of mediocrity. They’re often right, but how much have they missed because they’ve pre-judged? Sometimes popular things are good, sometimes they aren’t. You’ll never know until you give it a chance.

And while you’re giving it a chance, try to be unbiased. Trust your instincts, but give it a fair shot.

Notes

1. soxiam said: good post. nothing easier than being cynical with impunity infront of too-kool-for-skool crowd.
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