Learning Hobbies

Introduction

Hobbies can engage us in lifelong learning, exercise the brain’s enduring plasticity, and enhance our wellbeing.

…until the 1960s, the scientific community believed that a steady, mental decline from adulthood into old age was inevitable. We now know that this is inaccurate. Advances in the field of neurology over the past several decades have clearly shown that a stimulated brain develops at any age. Faced with new stimuli, the brain forms new synaptic connections, generates new neurons, and creates neural pathways between brain cells.—Grow your brain | Oxford University Department for Continuing Education
Today it is generally accepted that the adult brain is far from being fixed.—Adult Neuroplasticity: More Than 40 Years of Research – PMC
The findings highlighted that adults taking a healthy and nutritional diet and exercising regularly can learn as effectively as the younger ones do as their brain cells can regenerate.—View of Neuroplasticity and Adult Learning: Can An Old Dog Learn New Tricks?
The speed of today’s changes calls for opportunities to learn throughout life, for individual fulfillment, social cohesion, and economic prosperity. Education can no longer be limited to a single period of one’s lifetime.—The right to lifelong learning: Why adult education matters | UNESCO
Greatest benefits can be summarized into three categories, as: coping with the fast-changing world, greater paychecks by giving job opportunities, and the huge last one is enriching and fulfilling the life.—Benefits of Lifelong Learning – ScienceDirect
Adult learning is linked with … amount of exercise taken and life satisfaction … a sense of identity, an ability to cope and a feeling of purpose in life; a greater level of wellbeing … higher levels of interpersonal and social trust, social connections and community engagement … greater tolerance of diversity and a higher degree of trust in people of different religions and nationalitie … a capacity to be assertive and to collaborate with others in the workplace.—What are the wider benefits of learning across the life course?