When Streams came to Java, I felt like I was already an expert in that paradigm, and was able to adopt it immediately in ways that made my Java code clearer and more concise, and maybe even more performant in some cases. (Streams can allow you to transform a very long sequence of data, without needing to realize the whole sequence in memory first, as one example.)

I also use immutable data structures by default wherever possible, unless I know I really need to mutate the data.

I try to make the output of a method dependent only on the inputs, wherever possible.

You shouldn't take it to extremes, but incorporating paradigms from one language into another can pay big dividends.