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Lately I've come to the realisation that growing up means you simply can't maintain all your hobbies. It's just not possible to play video games, and read nove
by nitemice 9y ago
Lately I've come to the realisation that growing up means you simply can't maintain all your hobbies.
It's just not possible to play video games, and read novels, and read comic books, and garden, and cook, and blog, and play an instrument, and code, and paint, and sketch, and do photography, and do pottery, and watch TV, and ballroom-dance, and ski, and practice archery, and go to the gym, etc.
For the majority of people, apart from whatever you do for work, I think you can only really maintain 1-3 hobbies. People like those described in the article have chosen books/reading as their big time-sink. And that's okay, but I bet they're not spending a lot of time painting, or watching TV, or downhill-skiing (unless it's their job). Because there are only so many hours in a day, and eventually you have to specialise.
- andyzweb 9y agoSpecialization is for insects.
- nathan_f77 9y agoYeah, not if you have to balance all of that with a full-time job and a family. But if you can somehow manage to retire early [1], and you either don't have kids or you don't home-school them, then I think you could find time for all of those things you mentioned in your second paragraph. Of course, not all in the same day. And you don't really need to specialize, unless you have the drive to become a world-class musician or painter. I have a lot of hobbies where I just have fun and don't really want to get famous or turn them into a career. [1] http://reddit.com/r/financialindependence http://reddit.com/r/financialindependence