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THIS IS PART 2 IN MY SHARING OF A SCIENTIFIC SEMINAR I WENT TO RECENTLY TITLED: ‘HEALTH, HAPPINESS & HARMONY; THE HOLISITIC ESSENTIALITY OF HOBBIES’.  <\/em><\/strong>Presented by a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Jerry V Walker, III<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The objectives of the seminar was: 1. Define what constitutes a hobby; 2. Critically examine how hobbies contribute to our physical, mental, emotional and social health; 3. Develop ideas for how to incorporate a variety of personally-relevant hobbies into our regular routine or lifestyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHAT IS A ‘HOBBY’? <\/strong>
According to Dr. Walker a ‘hobby’ is anything that: 1. Requires effort<\/em><\/strong> –you actually ‘do’ something; 2. Requires aptitude-<\/em><\/strong>-for this one I had to look up the definition of ‘aptitude’ and learned that it is the ‘natural ability to do something<\/em>‘. I’m not sure I totally agree with the word ‘natural’. That means that one must possess an innate ability to do an activity. As we know with tatting and other fiber-art activities, they have a learning curve both physically and mentally; 3. Is something you do for enjoyment.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Tatting\u00a0definitely\u00a0fits\u00a0this\u00a0category!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHAT CONSTITUTES AS ‘HOBBY’? 1. Is an Activity<\/em><\/strong>–something physical; 2. Has\u00a0a\u00a0Purpose–<\/em><\/strong>eg.\u00a0social,\u00a0productive,\u00a0time-filling,\u00a0etc.; 3. Is Voluntary<\/em><\/strong>–ie. it is something you want to do; 4. Holds Significance<\/em><\/strong>–ie. is meaningful to the person. (In my case 3 of my 4 grandparents tatted, so for me it is a heritage.); 5. Not a Means to an End<\/em><\/strong>–it doesn’t have to have a purpose, you can just enjoy it. The presenter also stated on this topic, that a hobby is not a job. If you make money at it, is it still a hobby? I would suppose that would depend upon how much money you make and how well you live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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THIS IS PART 2 IN MY SHARING OF A SCIENTIFIC SEMINAR I WENT TO RECENTLY TITLED: ‘HEALTH, HAPPINESS & HARMONY; THE HOLISITIC ESSENTIALITY OF HOBBIES’.  Presented by a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Jerry V Walker, III The objectives of the seminar was: 1. Define what constitutes a hobby; 2. Critically examine how hobbies contribute to our physical, mental, emotional and social health; 3. Develop ideas for … Continue reading What is a ‘hobby’?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}