I guess nostalgia and liking what everyone else says they like is a powerful thing.
This is a cognitive distortion you should be very mindful of.e.g. If X is true for you, X is true in general, and therefore what else is "true" must be so given X. In this case X is Breath of the Wild being "boring". By failing to correctly recognize that there can be things about the world other people experience, that you do not, you are forcing yourself to assume others must be liking what everyone else says they like
Which paints an unnecessarily bleak view of your peers and incorrectly orients you to them.When something is true for you... that's it. You can't draw many conclusions from that single data point. You necessarily need to include the perspectives of others to properly triangulate what might be before attempting to draw any conclusions. There are so many infinite ways the video game Breath of the Wild could be popular without that negative and misleading worldview needing to be the reason, but you limit your capacity to understand those other reasons, and empathize with others, if everything you subjectively experience must also be objective fact. |