Fully agree with you regarding thinking outside the box and not stay in our own tunnels; ie go and explore things that we dont have in our playlist, or in our repertoire. For me its more the playlist since I'm not a musician hence I dont have a repertoire :) I try to listen to all sort of music, and from time to time I discover totally new stuff I do like very much. In electronic music, I was for instance never to much into drum&bass, but a recent discovery I really like: mix between ambient, experimental, drum&bass sone in a very interesting way
https://open.spotify.com/album/3yXIkSJWpudtgF0TZuB16U?si=9migQE24TuKgd3d2ugDljw