Where is the good knife?” If you’re looking for your good X, you have bad Xs. Throw those out
Things that aren’t your fault can still be your responsibility.
Defining yourself by your suffering is an effective way to keep suffering forever
Some types of sophistication won’t make you enjoy the object more, they’ll make you enjoy it less. For example, wine snobs don’t enjoy wine twice as much as you, they’re more keenly aware of how most wine isn’t good enough. Avoid sophistication that diminishes your enjoyment
Sturgeon’s law states that 90% of everything is crap. If you dislike poetry, or fine art, or anything, it’s possible you’ve only ever seen the crap. Go looking!