Jemma
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 30 May
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The Psychology of your 20s · 423. You need more hobbies...here's how you do it · 30 May 2026
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One study, for example, looked at the relationship between when you work really long hours and how that impacts depression and well-being.
And on top of discovering the very obvious thing, which is that the more hours you work, the more significant negative impact it has on your health.
What researchers did find was that having hobbies, even if you had limited time.
actually helped mitigate those adverse side effects because you were still putting time energy you had you were making an investment in yourself as someone who was not just an employee you know you had this place to go where your brain can think about something different it can de-stress it can compartmentalize that's also why I really often say that your hobbies should be different to what you do at work all day you know like if you're a nurse you're
hobby this is gonna sound silly but it can't be like playing operation you know that's a silly example but if you spend your day working in front of a screen doing like data or like marketing or whatever you know it's not great if you come home and you have more screen-based hobbies you want it to be quite nuanced you want to give your brain something more to play with but
You know, hobbies also just simply make you happier.
We're just going to say it from the most basic psychological lens.
When you participate in something you love, your brain rewards you with dopamine that keeps you motivated to keep going.
It makes you happier.
A life filled with hobbies feels more purposeful.
One of my favorite, favorite, favorite, favorite pieces of research that supports this was conducted with almost, and I'm going to say this number because it's astounding, 100,000 people.
That's right.
It was a piece of research on 100,000 people, all of them over the age of 65, and they'd all retired.
And what they found was that when these older adults had hobbies and they did their hobby more than once a week, they not only were happier, they also lived longer because health is not just physical.
It is mental.
It is cognitive.
You will start giving up on your physical health.
You will start not caring about yourself as much if you don't have something that you actually want to live for, something that you actually enjoy doing.
You won't feel as positive towards yourself.
You won't feel as positive towards your well-being and as active and protective if you don't feel like you have a purpose, if you're not happy.
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