What is good in life, where there is no place for entertainment and hobbies?
When choosing a class to fill in your leisure time, you are sure to be asked what hobby to choose to make it as useful as possible. I have often met individuals who record social networking sessions as hobbies. But can such a pastime be called effective or as meaningful as possible?
There are hobbies that have a beneficial effect on such indicators as: speed of thought, productivity, concentration. Doing your favorite thing, you not only fight stress, but also pump up personal benefits. You will be able to use your skills in the workplace and will definitely climb a step up the career ladder.
So, I present you the 7 most useful creative hobbies that will turn you into a successful person.
Embroidery
Traditionally, embroidery is positioned as a hobby for women. However, in recent years, you can catch the most brutal men at the tambourine. Methodical fabric piercing with a needle is similar to meditation. This activity brings order to the nervous system, teaches you to abstract from unpleasant thoughts and focus on a specific action.
Embroidery is a relatively simple and affordable hobby. You do not need to spend on professional equipment. All you need is to visit a needle store and buy five items: scissors, a flap of fabric, a mouliné, a needle and tambourine. On the Internet in the free access you can find step-by-step manuals, embroidery schemes and patterns of paintings.
Gaming
At the beginning of this article I had a negative attitude towards social networks, but I consider gambling to be a useful activity (unless, of course, it turns into a gaming addiction). First, virtual shootings and battles reduce the level of cortisol in the blood (stress hormone).
Secondly, all sorts of strategies force the player to think about the next steps. The ability to plan is automatically transferred to real life.
In addition, computer games improve cognitive functions. You begin to think creatively, your memory becomes able to accommodate huge amounts of information. It is proven that gamers are better able to navigate in unfamiliar places and make responsible decisions faster.
Craft
Kraft “A creative hobby for everyone”. As part of this hobby, people create masterpieces out of ordinary trash. Jars, plastic, cardboard boxes, old rubber, scrap metal, cloth shreds are used.
Kraft combines sculpture, drawing, carpentry, blacksmithing and many other activities. Sitting in your home, you can turn junk into real treasures. Admire the statue of the elephant made of aluminum cans of soft drinks!
Drawing
Anyone can draw. You do not need to have a supernatural potential to paint. Let’s face it, Pablo Picasso is able to reproduce “masterpieces” by every schoolchild. Bravely grab hold of pencils and carry on paper your first skatches.
Drawing pictures and painting from nature is especially good for brain training. You’ll learn to notice small details, break down a complex whole into simple elements and algorithm your own actions. Only one month of regular drawing lessons – and you’ll forget what it means to grab 1000 actions at once. You’ll know where to start and where to finish.
Music
As a person who stepped on the bear’s ear, I would say that it is quite real to find a musical instrument even for the last idle. By pure chance, I was approached by tamtams. To repeat a simple rhythm is not difficult, you wave the same musical pattern for 2-3 minutes and enjoy the sounds.
Execution of melodies has a beneficial effect on muscle memory and allows you to automate certain actions. Jams and improvisation sharpen creativity to the limit. Another plus is that musicians of the opposite sex are subconsciously perceived as more attractive sexual objects.
Australian scientists found out that musicians aged 2 to 3 years later facilitate the process of learning to write and count. The child more easily socializes and joins the new team. If your child grows up, it is more likely to send him to learn to write and write.
Cookery
Cooking is perhaps the most useful and productive hobby for brain development. You fully focus on the culinary process. You need to plan each step separately, calculate the preparation and processing time of individual products, calculate the optimal ratio of ingredients.
The gurus of cookery will also come up with recipes for delicious dishes themselves. It is incredibly interesting to experiment with products, to mix them, to make the bored flavors open in a new way. The use of unusual spices increases the number of combinations of ingredients by many times.
All family members can be involved in this hobby. Arrange home restaurants, in which your loved ones will be given a role. For example, your spouse will gladly marinate the meat, children will slice the salad, and you will prepare a side dish. The need to intelligently allocate responsibilities will bring up in you the leader’s inclinations.
Feng Shui
This is a hobby that will require you to spend a great deal of intellectual money. You must take into account a lot of rules and requirements for the organization of space, know all the omens and beliefs applicable to the arrangement of the house, to navigate to the sides of the world and not only. In a word, you will have to work hard for fame.
The passion for feng shui trains the memory and helps to structure the thinking. The arrangement of objects will reveal the potential of the designer in you and extract from the depths of consciousness creative ideas. In order to achieve concrete results, you will have to not only correctly, but also beautifully arrange the five feng shui elements: earth, fire, wood, metal and water. This will make you a real alchemist of modernity. You have to admit, it sounds incredibly tempting.