423. You need more hobbies...here's how you do it
The Psychology of your 20s
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Your hobbies may be just as important as your friendships in your 20s. But whilst you may dedicate 10-15 hours a week to your friends, most of us can go a week or two without actually performing our hobbies. Why is that, and what is the consequence?In today's episode we break down the psychology of why our hobbies are so important, including:
- The debate around what makes a hobby
- How many hobbies do you actually need?
- How much time should you spend doing your hobbies?
- The Rule of Four for hobbies
- The psychological benefits
- The 3 major reasons we struggle to perform our hobbies
- How to find time, inspiration and motivation for your hobbies, and more
Listen now if you want to make more of your leisure time!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:07.7 | Welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:09.9 | New listeners, old listeners, wherever you are in the world. |
| 0:12.9 | It is so great to have you here back for another episode as we, of course, break down the psychology of your 20s. This topic has been a long time coming. |
| 0:25.1 | It has been on my list of things that I really want to talk about for a while. And today we are |
| 0:29.8 | finally getting around to doing it. We're going to be talking about the psychology of hobbies |
| 0:36.0 | and how essential they are, not just for your well-being, |
| 0:39.6 | but for this decade of life, I think, personally, that hobbies are just as important as our |
| 0:46.3 | friendships during our 20s. But despite that, we really do struggle, you and I, both of us can |
| 0:51.8 | acknowledge that we struggle to devote the necessary time to |
| 0:57.4 | them, to doing our hobbies. We wish that we had more kind of things that we love to do in our free time. |
| 1:03.9 | For me personally, I feel like I collect hobbies almost like their trinkets. Like I have so many |
| 1:10.0 | hobbies on rotation that I adore and |
| 1:13.3 | I love doing but I don't always get the chance to actually do them and you know I'll drop them |
| 1:18.4 | every now and again and then pick them back up like six months later and what I've really |
| 1:24.1 | begun to realize is that the times when I'm not actively doing my hobbies |
| 1:28.5 | are the times when my life kind of suffers. |
| 1:32.5 | Often it's that my life feels like it's all centered on work and my relationships and |
| 1:37.7 | my responsibilities and we need something deeper than that. |
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