It seems that the best occupation after work is to come home and do idleness. But so think those who are accustomed to ignore the needs of their souls. Do not know what to do with the weekend? Ask yourself what made you happy as a child? Why not repeat it right now or, on the contrary, learn something new? You never know what the soul will respond to. After all, a hobby is the energy that ignites fire in our eyes.
What is a hobby
Hobby is an activity for the soul that makes our life full, improves our mood, energizes and gives pleasure. In adolescence, it teaches accuracy, develops curiosity, imagination. An adult's hobbies help him to return to a happy childhood and wake up in himself that delight, from which his eyes are burning and you want to jump up early in the morning from bed. The real lucky people are people who have managed to make their hobby a profession.
The hobbies of our ancestors were not limited to embroidery or woodcarving. Were exotic hobbies like visiting morgues or anatomical theaters. But there were those who became the work of a lifetime. For example, the curiosity of Vladimir Dahl gave us the main dictionary. Although since childhood he was trained for military service, and literature was only a hobby for him.
Hobbies - a significant component of human life. It helps us learn about the world, expand our horizons and earn. It makes us happier. The first goal of the hobby is assist in self-fulfillment and meet internal needs. But in the XXI century, doing something "just like that" becomes unfashionable. The idea of making money from a hobby comes to the fore.
Although the share of online commerce is increasing annually by 10-20%, traditional stores with goods for needlework and creativity do not lose their positions. Perhaps buyers come there to communicate, "show yourself and see others." You can also touch fabrics, beads, paper in handicraft stores. Products for creativity a lot. To consider them "in reality" is more pleasant than on a computer screen.
What are the interests and hobbies
List what hobbies are difficult. You can divide them into two main types:
- Amateur - This is when you do your favorite thing just for fun.
- Professional - These are hobbies for which they pay money.
According to the resources involved, you can divide the classes for the soul:
- Intellectual: foreign languages, chess, quests, board games.
- Emotional: drawing, singing, breeding animals.
- Physical: sport, dance, travel.
How a hobby to work and live helps us
Psychologists have noticed that a person chooses a hobby according to the nature of his character. Extroverts prefer sports or dancing, introverts find an outlet in collecting or training. But there are common benefits that enthusiastic people get:
- It adds confidence.. Favorite activity is a resource that helps to recover from a hectic day or, on the contrary, to get emotional charge for a difficult test.
- It helps to cope with unloved things.. A bonus in the form of a favorite activity will help to quickly deal with mandatory tasks that you don’t want too much.
- It adds stability to life.. Isn't it great to find something permanent in the rhythm of present life that will enthrall you regardless of changes at work?
- This is your personal space.. This is your own island of happiness, which nourishes with positive energy, if you have nowhere else to take it.
- It speaks about the integrity of a person.. The ability to concentrate on one lesson, the desire to seek information, to find like-minded people.
- It enhances your image. developed, purposeful person.
Benefit hobby is difficult to overestimate. Not in vain the item about hobbies is entered into the resume of applicants. Ignore it is not worth it, because your passion for the employer will tell a lot:
- Football or volleyball - about the ability to work in a team.
- Discharge in the form of sports is about continuous self-improvement.
- Completed quests or parties - about organizational skills.
- Chess is about strategic thinking.
- Drawing or photography is about creativity.
- Conducted master classes - on oratory.
But when filling out a resume, it is not worthwhile to invent non-existent hobbies for yourself just because the leader is keen on it. It is better to think about the way in which to tell about the hobby so that it helps to get the cherished position.
How interests and hobbies make us happier
In the practice of the psychotherapist there are many stories with which clients come. It seems that every story is unique. But people of different wealth, age, status are united by one thing: lack of passion. At the same time, hobby / creativity / creation is one of the essential components of the formula of happiness.
How to find your hobby for the mind
Ten years ago to the question "how to find a hobby? "was one answer:"remember what you liked to do as a child". But you can answer otherwise:"remember what makes you happy"This will not necessarily be a lesson from childhood. Today there are a lot of hobbies that will make our life better and more productive.
Hobbies that make us smarter
- Reading. The more you read, the more you expand your horizons, learn to speak and empathize competently, increase self-esteem. But all this happens in people who read scientific journals, classical literature, and not glossy magazines or fiction. Because the benefits of the so-called deep reading - slow, thoughtful reading of books with moral questions.
- Playing musical instruments. Listening to music is great. But we become smarter while learning to play the piano, guitar, or even the harmonica. Such an exercise develops fine motor skills, improves memory reaction, leadership skills, ability for logical thinking. A musical hobby is useful at any age, but it affects the child’s brain best.
- Writing haiku. Haiku is a Japanese poetic miniature that helps to hear the inaudible, to view the smallest details of nature and feel like a part of the world, not the center of the universe. Experts say that haiku is not tearful poetry, but a way of life. The samurai folded the haiku before the march, and with a certain perseverance, this could happen to a resident of the metropolis.
- Calligraphy. In the 80s of the last century, Japanese scientists conducted an interesting study. They were looking for new techniques that will help educate specialists of the future. It turned out that calligraphy meets all requirements. Such a manner of writing stimulates the brain, prolongs life. The position of the fingers, hand, shoulder, arm movements and feather affect different parts of the body, improve physical, mental health.
- Learning foreign languages. It turns out that while studying the brain is literally growing. But for the development of the brain is more useful to learn several foreign languages. Such training is the best medicine to help delay senile dementia, Alzheimer's syndrome. In addition, language experts are able to instantly switch between tasks, do several things at once.
How to find a hobby for everyone
If there is continuous stress at work, and it’s raining and dark outside the window, you just want to relax at home. There are old and undeservedly forgotten hobbies that are pleasant to enjoy in home comfort.
- Felting - felting wool. This interesting technique of working with wool allows you to create cute toys, upholstery for chairs or chairs, handbags, shoes, berets and jewelry. The method was known during the time of the ancient nomadic peoples. For the technique will need wool of different shades, needles and a special substrate.
- Patchwork - patchwork. The way of housewives to save on new things became an independent direction of applied art in the XVIII century. In the patchwork technique, small napkins, voluminous blankets, tablecloths, bags, and coats are created. For work you will need a lot of colored shreds, a sewing machine, patience and imagination.
- Tilda manufactures. Tilda - the most charming dolls, invented by the Norwegian artist Tony Finnanger in 1999. They are created from shreds, laces, felt, buttons, ribbons, threads. They sew for sale or just for fun. In addition to these materials for the work you will need a pattern and inspiration.
- Gingerbread painting. Gingerbread painting is not an easy but exciting activity, interesting for adults and children. Plots are limited only by the fantasy of the master. You can make gingerbread as a gift or just enjoy the process of painting. For work you will need gingerbread, icing sugar and food coloring.
- Hydroponics - cultivation of plants by the baseless method. The times of monotonous clay pots on the windowsill are a thing of the past. For this system, no soil is needed, the roots of the plants feed in a solution of nutrient salts. You can grow not only cacti, but also useful herbs - spinach, mint, sage.
What hobby to choose, if nothing pleases
Immediately make a reservation: watching social networks, videos or computer games is not a hobby, but an idle pastime. To find your hobby or find a new hobby instead of an old bored one, you can use the step-by-step instruction:
- Determine your current interests. Do you like cakes? Try to master the flowers of mastic or learn how to bake real macaroons. Do you often buy cheese? Learn all about cheese making, the subtleties of cheese tasting.
- Think of the inner qualities that you would like to enhance.. If you do not have enough perseverance, quilling will help develop it. Composing stories will help strengthen eloquence, and volunteering will remove the fear of communicating with strangers.
- Analyze your budget. There are hobbies that require considerable investment - for example, professional photography or historical reconstructions. But you can collect an art object from the old clock.
- Do something you never did. It is even impossible to imagine what kind of hobbies people have: painting dogs, carving on eggshells. Exotic hobbies even have members of the royal family: mowing lawns or drawing engravings.
- Browse useful sites or search through the library.. Many sites periodically publish collections of useful links for exploring various kinds of hobbies. Just browse through several lists to see what you would like to do in your free time.
How to find a hobby to make money on it
Many famous people in an interview say that they were lucky to make a hobby their profession. The author of "Harry Potter" JK Rowling since childhood wrote stories, and the creator of the automobile corporation Henry Frrd in his youth was fond of mechanics. In our time, making money on a hobby is easier - goods and services can be sold on the Internet. But first you need to clarify for yourself some questions:
- Pay your pleasure no one will. You need to turn your passion into an interesting product for buyers.
- To evaluate your services you need to take into account not only the money spent, but also time to prepare, study materials, obtain fresh information.
- Sold not only goods, but also knowledge or experience. If you have successful experience in finding a job, you can advise job seekers. Knowledge of an exotic country or culture is also interesting to readers, subscribers in the social network.
Findings:
- Hobby - a great opportunity for a good rest.
- Psychologists recommend choosing hobbies according to the principle “the best rest is a change of activity”. If you are engaged in intellectual work, free time should be consecrated to the dances.
- To earn a hobby, you have to turn your passion into an attractive product.
- Hobbies help not only to relax, but also to strengthen the desirable qualities in oneself.
