How listening to music you hate can make you love your life.

You can train yourself to override the kind of bias that keeps you from making good decisions and having a better life.

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One of the most annoying things to me is when someone tries to shove their music down my eardrums. I mean, it’s one thing to be at someone’s place, or in their car, and to listen to whatever they happen to have on in the background, but when a friend insists that you’ve “really gotta check this out!” and then makes you sit there and listen deeply to a song you suspect will make you squirm… because it’s pop and you like metal, or it’s country and you like R&B… well, it’s irritating. Because now you have to pretend that you: a) don’t not want to hear it; b) are soaking it in; and c) are somewhat enjoying it. Because, well, they’re sitting right there hanging on your reaction, and you’re not an asshole.

Maybe you can’t relate, but either way…