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Interests are subjects and pursuits that draw your energy and enthusiasm. This includes leisure, recreation, hobbies, professional interests, school subjects, extracurricular activites and topics that you enjoy researching. The following are common examples of interests.
Acting | Animals | Anime & Manga | Architecture | Art | Astronomy | Baking | Ballet | Beekeeping | Birdwatching | Board Games | Business | Calligraphy | Camping | Canoeing | Carpentry | Cars & Driving | Chess | Cleaning | Climbing | Coding | Collecting | Comedy | Computers | Concerts | Cooking | Cosplay | Crafts | Creative Pursuits | Creative Reuse | Cuisine | Culture | Cycling | Dance | Darts | Debate | Design | Diving & Snorkelling | Diy | Drawing | Education | Engineering | Entrepreneurship | Environmental Action | Exercise | Family | Fandom | Fashion | Festivals | Film | Fitness | Frisbee | Game Theory | Gardening | Golf | Health | Hiking | History | Horseback Riding | Inline Skating | Interior Design | Investing | Knitting | Languages | Law | Leadership | Learning | Low Technology | Machines | Maker Culture | Martial Arts | Mathematics | Media Production | Medicine | Meditation | Model Building | Museums | Music Appreciation | Music Production | Nature | Nightlife | Origami | Philosophy | Photography | Politics | Pool | Pop Culture | Psychology | Public Speaking | Puzzles | Reading | Religion & Spirituality | Research | Robotics | Running | Sailing | Science | Self-Improvement | Sewing | Shopping | Simple Living | Singing | Skateboarding | Skating | Skiing & Snowboarding | Social Media | Socializing | Sociology | Space | Sports | Storytelling | Strategy | Surfing & Bodyboarding | Swimming | Technology | Television | Theatre | Theme Parks | Traditional Culture | Travel | Trivia | Video Games | Volunteering | Walking | Wellness | Woodworking | Writing | Yoga |
Nature InterestsInterests related to nature include leisurely activities such as going to the beach, sports such as fishing and general interests such as animals. Nature interests can involve epic experiences such as stargazing or learning such as collecting and studying artifacts of natural history. Cultural InterestsCommon interests such as fashion, dance, music and cooking are cultural. Culture includes traditions that are passed from generation to generation and new culture such as youth culture and pop culture. Language learning and becoming immersed in foreign cultures is another common type of cultural pursuit.Creative InterestsInterests related to art, performance art, design, inventing and producing things that benefit from originality such as crafts or DIY projects. Creative interests are often surrounded in a subculture such as reuse and repair enthusiasts who adopt an ethos of self-reliance and not wasting things.HobbiesThe word hobby is based on a 16th century term for a small horse or pony. This originally had negative connotations as a pursuit that is not serious or childish†. The modern term does kinda retain this sense that a hobby has no serious aims but is rather pursued for joy, relaxation or learning. In modern times, this is typically viewed as fully productive and worthwhile.RecreationInterests that involve some level of physical activity including major categories of interests such as exercise, team sports and individual sports.Technology & MediaInterests related to creating, using or collecting technology and media. Video gaming is a particularly large one here that is a rare type of entertainment that is participative and potentially creative. Other InterestsOther broad categories of interests beyond the ones listed above. These can be focused on self-improvement, life experiences, learning or trying to do good.SummaryThe following are common examples of interests. Generally speaking, an interest is something active that you do with your free time and other resources such as money. This is rather broad and includes hobbies, leisure, recreation, lifelong learning and other pursuits such as politics.
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References†Gelber S M. Hobbies: leisure and the Culture of Work in America Columbia University Press, 1999, pp. 3, 11–12, 23, 28.
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