Jemma

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411 appearances 2 recordings 1 series 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 podcast

And if you want my opinion, I'm a bit of a hobby traditionalist.

I do think that your hobbies kind of require something extra.

They require you to switch on your brain or your body or your creativity in a way that a passive act like watching TV or being on your phone doesn't.

It's active.

If you don't agree, obviously, I would love to hear from you because I know

that there's differing opinions, but basically it's something that you find fun, that you do in your leisure time, that you do regularly, which we'll get to later, and that uses some part of your brain or your body which is not related to work or something essential.

Something really fascinating, at least I think it's fascinating, but something fascinating that I discovered is about how certain people think about hobbies, especially sociologists, and how they group them.

So there are actually three different types of hobbies or hobbyists, people who do hobbies.

According to this book, which is a whole book on the psychology and the sociology of hobbies published in 2015, there is the casual leisure kind of hobby that is fun, maybe short-lived, doesn't really require a lot of preparation or money.

So you might go and play basketball at a community court once a week, or you swim at a local pool, you play board games, you make some kind of

art, like colouring in, that is casual leisure.

Then we get a bit more serious and this is very properly called serious leisure hobbies.

These are the kinds of hobbies that require a bit more effort, a bit more money as well to be rewarding, like ceramics.

There is, you do have to pay for the tools, you have to pay for the equipment or horse riding or scuba diving and

It can also describe people who have taken a casual leisure hobby.

So like bike riding and made it a lot more serious.

You know, you can get a $50 secondhand bike on Facebook marketplace and like ride it around your neighborhood and that can be a hobby.

Or for example, you know, I have a friend Felix who spends so much money on bikes and equipment and he does races and he has gels and outfits.

Like, you know, he's at that serious leisure level.

I'm going to make an argument that even like a hobby like reading can become serious leisure.

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