It’s easy to believe your likes and dislikes as something that are established when you’re a child or a teen. You pick a favorite color at five years old and that’s it, you’re done—purple forever! And that’s often how our families treat our likes and dislikes, right? You briefly express an interest in, say, narwhals when you’re in sixth grade and now, more than a decade later, your older relatives are still clipping articles that reference narwhals out of the local newspaper and mailing them to you.

