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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Like I can't do my hobbies because I'm not as good as other people are.
I'm not as good as the people I see in the studio, online, at the gym.
That's what gets in our way.
Or we just don't prioritize our hobbies because there is something easier to do, something easier that we want to do, like maybe scroll on our phones, whatever, that gives us that instant dopamine and that instant gratification.
Whereas pursuing our hobbies takes more of a time investment to get the reward.
You may start out your night like wanting to do some painting or like wanting to do something fun.
But then pretty soon you get pulled in by your phone.
It's 10 p.m.
It's time for bed.
That is a really common dilemma.
Something interesting that I found in some research conducted in the UK a few years ago is that our failure to do our hobbies is actually a cycle that comes back to motivational fatigue or motivational stress.
deficit whereby our hobbies would actually motivate us to do them more but the more we don't do them the less motivated we become so really the hardest step when you've fallen off your hobbies when you've stopped doing them the hardest step is the first one you know just doing the thing just committing despite all the other distractions that is where you're going to struggle the most but then you get the motivation you get the wheel rolling again
I think that's like any habit.
It's always hard at the beginning, like the first five minutes of a run, the first hour of starting an assignment.
There is just like so much time ahead of you.
It just feels so long.
But then you get going, it becomes more enjoyable.
That is the motivational process of doing your hobbies more regularly.
Finally, it may be that actually those hobbies that you've fallen away from, they just aren't fun anymore.
They're just not something that you want to do.
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