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Do You Need a New Hobby?

Answer: We all do.

Heather Havrilesky
Aug 01, 2024
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Touristes de Prague III (1961) by Dorothea Tanning

Lately I’ve decided that most people need lots of hobbies in order to be happy.

Yes, I know. I used to hate the word hobby. Language is a living organism!

I once disliked how hobby implied a casual dalliance, a lack of commitment, a way of denigrating non-monetary goals and also discrediting how much pas…

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