 Nashville  | 11 May 2018 8:38 p.m. PST |
A Hobby will make you more productive link The irony of all this is that hobbies do make you more productive, in a way. A 2009 study showed that more time spent on leisure activities was correlated with lower blood pressure, lower levels of depression and stress, and overall better psychological and physical functioning. Hobbies can also jump-start your creativity, or allow your mind to wander and look at problems from a new angle. |
| Zephyr1 | 11 May 2018 8:44 p.m. PST |
Yet having too many hobbies means you'll never get anything done (like me… ;-) |
| Kevin C | 11 May 2018 9:09 p.m. PST |
Of course all of this is probably offset by lead poisoning and sniffing too much glue and paint fumes. |
| Volleyfire | 12 May 2018 2:30 a.m. PST |
Not forgetting the stress of looking at the ever growing lead mountain and wondering when you'll find time to paint all of it, plus those deadlines to get figures painted in time for that game you promised you'd put on. |
| robert piepenbrink | 12 May 2018 4:18 a.m. PST |
Hmm. If anyone dislikes the NY Times, or has limited access, here's the study the article cites. link
There are (or appear to me to be) severe methodological holes. Not least is that it doesn't consider that people pursue hobbies BECAUSE they're more relaxed and less obsessed about work. As for correlating leisure activities with higher income, that about has to be a function of the leisure activities definition, because trust me on this, the guy nursing a "bad back" disability, or stretching out unemployment payments certainly has more free time than the corporate lawyer.
All of which said, when I stopped working and concentrated on my miniatures, my blood pressure dropped 40 points. |
 Legion 4  | 12 May 2018 7:19 a.m. PST |
I plan on living to 100 or more ! And I'll still probably be painting my massive miniature inventory !  |
| zoneofcontrol | 12 May 2018 7:26 a.m. PST |
"Live longer. Have a hobby." But what if your hobby is a combination of self-mutilation and drug abuse? |
| Stryderg | 12 May 2018 12:37 p.m. PST |
"But what if your hobby is a combination of self-mutilation and drug abuse?" Then you are going to live longer than the guy who does that for a living, I guess. I'm just waiting for my time and money to line up.
Had plenty of time when I was younger, but no money.
Have more money now, but no time.
Sigh. |
| Daithi the Black | 12 May 2018 10:53 p.m. PST |
Correlation is not necessarily causation. |
| arthur1815 | 14 May 2018 2:05 a.m. PST |
How true!
I once 'proved' to my maths pupils that one's success in maths was in direct proportion to the darkness of one's hair colour by plotting the latter against their exam scores in a scattergraph (it just so happened the class contained several clever Malaysian girls and a ditzy blonde, who then had to be dissuaded from rushing out to buy hair dye!). |
weighs the pros and cons of using a power drill on the minis workbench.