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Taste is a guide for what is worthwhile

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John Reeve (1958-61, 1966) Taste goes by many names: intuition, conviction, self-trust, aesthetics. Roughly, it is the ability to make judgements about aesthetic value; to be able to tell the difference between what is and is not beautiful to you.

John Reeve (1958-61, 1966) Taste goes by many names: intuition, conviction, self-trust, aesthetics. Roughly, it is the ability to make judgements about aesthetic value; to be able to tell the difference between what is and is not beautiful to you. It turns out that the same ‘good taste’ that applies to food, art, or media can also help find what is meaningful and worthwhile to spend our lives on. This is largely because taste operates in two distinct and almost opposite modes: Type I taste: Exploratory taste that surfaces new forms of beauty you otherwise may not have considered; Type II taste

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