Do you suffer from having too many interests?

[switch7]

I do. And I find it tiring trying to juggle them.

My interests are art/sketching/design, financial markets, electronic music production, self development, and gym.

I tend to go through phases of concentrating on one to juggling all of them and then the pattern repeats. Sometimes I find it really tiring to the point where I have zero free time and feel a bit all over the place.

The only thing I seem to stay consistent with is the gym recently.

Can anyone else relate to this or am I on my own here?

 

[HoneyHitter]

Same here. Will elaborate later.

 

[Desdinova]

All the bloody time. If I quit my job, I probably still wouldn't have enough time to do the things I love. That's why it blows me away when I meet someone who says they don't have a hobby. How the fvck can somebody not have one? There's so much 5hit out there to learn and do.

I also don't consider playing video games a hobby. That's like saying watching TV while twirling a fidget spinner is a hobby.

 

[FairShake]

I have the exact opposite problem. No time to partake in the things I'm interested in. I can't remember the last time I went fishing for example. Between work, kid time, gf time, and reading time I only get a little bit of friend time which is usually spent drinking and talking about work, kids, girlfriends/boyfriends/wives/husbands, and the last sh!t we read.

Hobbies are for when I'm retired.

 

[BoySam]

Opposite. I have none hobbies, but looking for one

 

[Atom Smasher]

This has always been a problem for me. It's so easy to spread oneself too thin. To this day I'm hard at work trying to get a handle on it. I've been trying different ways to allocate time for each interest with mixed results. Somehow hard allocation tends to take the spontaneity out of some interests.

 

[resilient]

I cycle through interests. I'll be intensely interested in some. Let that fade a little bit, then pick up something new. There are hobbies that I would like to return to with time, motivation, and finances to support them with a curious/willing attitude.

The good thing about having so many interests I would say also helps you relate to others in conversation.

I got a beer and some pizza with my best friend last night and we talked about guitars, musical genres, sound effects from amps, pedals, and mixers for about 15-45 minutes. I would definitely not had that same conversation four months ago.