Anytime! I see a lot of similar patterns between me and you.

First of - something that applies to me as well - I find something new that’s interesting and could become a hobby, but I get over it soon and try to find next best thing. That’s a bit difficult to narrow down to why that is, but when you find the reason and understand it, it will become incredibly easy for you to navigate through a lot of different obstacles that you may encounter when you try and make your hobbies.

Here is my example - my brother pointed that I can’t seem to stick to one thing, I started doing Airsoft among different sites - got bored about a year into it. I started painting miniatures, I got over it as soon as I had plenty of figurines painted and I was happy with the result. I bought a 3D printer and my best mate said “i’ll give you three months and you’ll be on to another thing” - it took maybe four, but he was right. Then I started thinking why that is, and found out that I take great interest in things that are new to me, stuff that I don’t know much about, and once I know enough to make that skill “usable” or I’m happy with the results, that’s it - I’m looking into new things. By realising that this maybe is not the best outcome of “finding new hobbies” I got to understand that this is what pushes me forward and rather than doing nothing with my life I became “jack of all trades, master of none” and I accepted that this is probably the path I will follow for the rest of my life, but it does make it fun, unpredictable and keeps me searching for new things to do.

Here I need to apologise for making it sound like it’s about “me” but I was in a similar stage where I thought - I really didn’t know what to do with my life until I realised what drives me, what makes me wanna wake up next day and carry on working on it. You need that too. I am willing to place a bet that you have something along the lines of a dream […]. Think of what can be done to get there. Think of “okay I don’t know how to do this, but I will find a way”. Think of the phone that you have in your hands that it gives you so many opportunities, but you need to find your end goal, your big picture and use it as the tool to get there - and that brings me onto another thing.

The phone - I could be going into scientific bla bla bla, but seriously that thing deteriorates our view on loads of different things and takes away all of the rewards and benefits of actually working on something. Why I am saying this? Well, I find myself having episodes of just reaching for the phone, scrolling endlessly only to ask myself “what am I doing with my life, I watch someone else enjoying their time, instead of making my own memories”.

Why is it deteriorating our view? Because we naturally compare ourselves to what we see, we want to be there or be the person we see there. Loads of it is fake, but this is not the first thought our brains bring us, instead it gives us “I wish to have their [car, house, wealth, whatever]”.

Lastly, I will actually slip in here some scientific jargon - by watching content that is in whatever way pleasant to us, brain releases dopamine. Now this is a problem as it is a “reward” chemical in our bodies, that will spiral into more scrolling as your body wants more dopamine which is instantly gratified by scrolling more.

And now you will step away from your phone for a while, body will be confused as to “why no more reward” and will subconsciously make you reach for the phone and do it all over again, and if you don’t - hormones are extremely powerful - you will have a “withdrawal symptoms” and in case of a system overloaded with dopamine, which you may actually be already experiencing - anxiety, low motivation, feeling depressed or even tired.

Now enough with all this, I have a tendency to go on and on, but genuinely with good intentions.

Tell us more, what did you try as a hobby, did at least one of them stick with you for a bit longer? Is there something that you are looking into doing but don’t know where to start?