Hobbies: do they change your brain?
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AsapSCIENCE
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🗓️ 16 June 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Whether it’s reading, birdwatching, painting, or stargazing, we all have a hobby. In this week’s episode, we discuss what happens in the brain when you’re doing a hobby, their impact on your mental health, and the difference between scientific and artistic creativity.
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| 0:00.0 | Controversial subjects with the facts can be tense, but we are a subscience here to make things make sense. |
| 0:06.5 | Today we are talking about hobbies. What happens in the brain when thine is doing a hobby, |
| 0:11.9 | how hobbies affect mental health, and also the difference between scientific and artistic |
| 0:17.2 | creativity? |
| 0:23.0 | Okay, well the whole chart number one of it. |
| 0:25.5 | But you've been making music, right? |
| 0:30.6 | You singing that and I'm like, I'm like, I'm actually what am I up and coming off my |
| 0:34.1 | oven coming up here, being low grimes in the room. |
| 0:38.0 | Really? |
| 0:38.8 | Everything I'm making sucks. |
| 0:42.0 | But we're going to talk about this later in the pub and we get to hobbies, |
| 0:44.8 | but that's the plight of the artist of the hobbies. |
| 0:47.6 | I guess, but you know when you're also like, but maybe it actually sucks. |
| 0:50.3 | I don't know. |
| 0:51.0 | I insisting, thinking of painting. |
| 0:52.5 | I'm like, oh, but I can't wait to talk about hobbies because it is. |
| 0:55.1 | I will explain something that will make you feel better, but I totally get what you're feeling. |
| 0:57.9 | Well, with music, I think the most frustrating part for me is just that I have an idea that I |
| 1:03.6 | can't always execute properly because I don't have the technical skills as deeply as I wish I did. |
| 1:08.6 | Which I know is just a matter of practicing and learning and I just need to spend more time, |
| 1:12.6 | but it's a really frustrating moment and I'm sure it would be as like a visual artist as well. |
| 1:16.8 | If you knew what you wanted to create in your mind and couldn't execute it. |
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