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Develop a good hobby

Psychologists tell us, "You should have a hobby!" The doctor also told us: "You should have a hobby!" "Why should we have a hobby? Because we have free time!

Humans have invented all kinds of time-saving tools, which undoubtedly prolong the days of our lives and increase our free time. Moreover, advances in medicine and technology are endless, and the less you work, the more time you have free time. Once upon a time, man was a slave to work, and now machines have replaced slaves. Naturally, we have to face the question: how do we spend our free time? Carnegie's answer was: Develop a good hobby.

There is a kind of person who regards work as a hobby. He wants to put his creativity and imagination into his daily work, and he enjoys it. Even if someone gives him millions of dollars of wealth and gives him all the comforts and guarantees of his and his family's life, and tells him not to work, he will not accept it. Only by working will his body feel comfortable and his spirit will be happy.

There are others whose work is never much fun for them, who work for a salary, who use their salary to feed themselves and their children, and who want nothing else. Such people are unfortunate and live a life without meaning because they do not bring their creativity to a certain extent. Carnegie said that if your daily work does not play your creativity, you should find another business hobby to be worthy of being a person. If your daily routine is exhausting and disturbing, you should also find another business hobby to soothe your body and mind. You can't live just for work, and in the modern world you can no longer be a slave to work. You know, automatic comfort and pastime, and passive comfort and pastime, are just as important as sleep.

Which hobby should you choose? It's up to you. You can go fishing, you can collect stamps, you can play the piano, you can learn to draw, you can write detective novels, you can study radio. People who are not in good health should choose hobbies about intelligence. People who are poor in their families naturally do not have to collect antiques as a hobby. In short, as your sex is near, as it suits you, you can choose one or more. But don't gamble, don't play cards, because that's an unfulfilled hobby. The wrong point that many people choose to hobby is that they do not use time and enjoy time in the spirit of creation, but instead kill time and waste time.

If you haven't found a hobby yet, you can choose between these three goals:

1. Feel interesting;

(2) In order to remedy physical or educational deficiencies;

Third, there must be a long-term, and when you are old, you will still feel interesting.

Carnegie said that the enthusiasm for helping others is the cutest of hobbies. Literature, music, art, theater, etc. are also the best hobbies, because these are endless. And the greatest and noblest hobby in the world is reading!

Carnegie's final advice was:

In order to protect your life, prevent your boredom from dying, as well as keep your good spirit and digestion, and avoid your business troubles, hurry up and look for a proper hobby!