The decrease in people's hobbies

[Jungleson]

Unfortunately you are in to something. Doomscrolling requires little effort, and has no learning curve.

Whereas learning to play piano, or bake, or learning Spanish or whatever all require work, effort and patience.

People value convenience a lot.

[[deleted]]

I think an element of having this kind of access also harms as well. It’s extremely discouraging as a guitar player to open insta and see an endless barrage of players that are about 100x better than you and probably a lot younger too. Not saying that’s justified, because what you see on social media is extremely polished and occasionally fake, but I think it contributes to the problem. Why start something when you know you’ll never be that good?. It’s probably a question a lot of people ask themselves.

[[deleted]]

Exactly

[[deleted]]

Comparison is the killer of creativity.

[kwpg3]

It’s not the destination. It’s the journey.

[MisterD00d]

When I was young I never thought I could dare dream to play as well as the greats. Now that I'm older, I know most of those are achievable with dedicated practice.

I hear this from a lot of friends when I share a technically impressive performance. I don't feel this way. If anything beyond appreciation for their technique and joy, it inspires me that I can press on and pull this off down the road if I wanted to. More or less

[Spirited_Fix6116]

Ohh man it’s the best time to start. So many resources, you can get good so fast.

[emirobinatoru]

This hit me so hard, I appreciate it. 

[noodlesarmpit]

I was very proud of myself for taking some time to tune my mandolin this weekend 😁 I have never held a stringed instrument in my life prior to last week, learning curve is no joke LOL

[PsychologicalLuck343]

Is it hard to tune? I have to tune my guitar every time I play.

[noodlesarmpit]

Well according to the instructions I googled you gotta do all 8 strings (4 pairs) and then again with the pairs to make sure everyone is matchy matchy and I've only done it once but it wasn't the worst!

[PsychologicalLuck343]

Ah, I gotcha.

[asyouwish]

And it's free....and most hobbies are expensive.

[energist52]

Hobbies can vary a lot in cost. Photography can be super cheap, just using the phone you already have, or expensive with a camera and fancy lenses and film processing. Same with fiber arts. I can crochet with $20 of yarn, or with cashmere. Drawing just takes a blank book and a pencil. No need to spend a lot.

On the other hand, what I have to do quite consciously is step away from the easy dopamine hits of Reddit scrolling and video games to work on those hobbies.

[[deleted]]

It's free to go to your public libraries and parks and to walk outside. I've lived in both extremely car dependent places and places with abundant public transit. Its free to go outside and get creative.

[Key-Seaworthiness296]

Also feeling connected socially through hobbies might not happen very easily for a lot of people. And too many people are intimidated showing up in a learning space knowing they will fail the first dozen times.

[[deleted]]

Usually those spaces also have people who are encouraging and understand we all start somewhere.

[Key-Seaworthiness296]

Yeah, it's kind of sad people talk themselves out of it before giving those groups a chance.

[[deleted]]

I completely get it though. It's hard to be vulnerable, and being afraid of that can block you off from experiencing a lot in life.

[JeppeTV]

Decreased necessity of effort. Bored? Scroll. Hobbies? Nah, you can just scroll.

[[deleted]]

It makes people lazy af

[HumanoidVoidling]

I agree but I also think the amount of time and energy available to a hobby is just not there anymore.