3. Hobbies make us happy as they take us away from our- jobs
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Developing and pursuing a hobby, whether it is as small as knitting a scarf or backpacking for the weekend, has a lot of benefits. This is scientifically proven in various studies that hobbies do make you more productive and happier at work.
Kevin Eschleman, one study’s lead author and assistant Psychology professor at San Francisco State University says that the more you’re engaged in an extracurricular hobby, the better you’ll do at work. Eschleman’s research concluded that you won’t do just a little bit better, your performance will become between 15% and 30% better!
On that note, let us clear out what a hobby is not, and what it is. It is not inactively scrolling through your social media and lazing around in your house and eating like a madman. It is an activity or a task that you do consciously, actively, willingly, and regularly, in leisure time, for pleasure. This can include various activities like gardening, yoga, playing music, hiking, dancing, cooking, birdwatching, reading, or even voluntarily & actively watching a TV series and not for the sake of being a couch potato. Hobby has to have tinge of learning, mastering, evolving, challenging, developing a skill, or a combination of these.
Well, you must be wondering ‘I don’t have the time and even if I did how in blue blazes will having a hobby make me better at work?!’
A hobby is a Reset Button– It helps you forget about your work and stresses that come along with that. You get lost in your own world when you are doing something that you love or trying out something new. It’s a pure psychological vacation if you look at it that way. There are various benefits of various activities but in general, a hobby: