In modern society this type of hobby. Hobbies and interests of modern people
2. Language as an expression of “the power of the mind and the gift of speech”- the main difference between a person. As is the language, so is the person. Language contains the whole person: thoughts, words, and deeds, since a word is an action.
3. Speech can only be based on culture. Culture generalizes the positive experience of speech creativity and indicates ways to optimally use speech.
4. Lifestyle is shaped by speech style. In speech style- wealth or poverty of thought, taste or bad taste of words, elegance or wretchedness of sound production.
5. Through the style of speech, a social mood is created. The reasons for this attitude- in our hidden thoughts, will and passions (emotions), and “the foundation of eloquence is passion” (M.M. Speransky). Lord, deliver me from passions, but inspire my spirit with will and feelings.
6. Therefore again: such is the speech, such is the person. "Say the word to me- and I’ll tell you who you are.” From the “fruit of the mouth” we will taste either good or evil. Let us believe that it is good.
Oratorical competition “Please speak!”
We propose to conduct the final lesson in the form of a public speaking competition for all course participants. Representatives of the groups give three, maximum five-minute speeches. At the same time, the host of the competition must strictly follow the regulations.
1. Self-introduction (“We have the honor to introduce ourselves!”).
2. Congratulatory speech (“I wish you happiness!”).
3. Publicistic speech: defense of a thesis chosen on the initiative of the speaker himself.
As the experience of holding competitions in the State has shown. IRYa them. A.S. Pushkin, Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov, Academy of Labor and Social Relations and other universities, the jury of the competition should be composed of teachers of the Russian language department, faculty management and representatives from students.
The most difficult, of course, is the competition of journalistic speeches, which can be called differently: “I ask for the floor!” or “I can’t be silent!” (the title of one of L.N. Tolstoy’s articles). The topics proposed below are formulated either as questions reflecting pressing problems of today, or as thesis of an aphorism that needs to be proven in further speech. Here is an approximate list of them (naturally, the participants themselves can come up with their own topics, questions or aphorisms).
Topics questions
1. The world is governed by the Word. Body monster in a word?
2. What is true culture? How to raise a cultured person?
3. Is Russia being reborn? Where is the bird troika rushing?
4. Why can't you build a good life with a bad language?
5. What do we sing and what will we sing? Say what you're eating- and I'll tell you who you are.
6. Internet: is it necessary to become entangled in the World Wide Web?
7. What is a person in the world of modern technology?
8. Modern television: good or evil?
9. Is TV the voice of the people or a delightful deception?
10. TV guys, isn't it time to send the Yankees? go home?
11. What are you passionate about, modern person?
12. Computer: does it kill the ability to communicate live?
13. Should we chase success? What is success?
14. Does post-Soviet society believe in God?
15. I believe!
16. Is it possible to learn to speak, to perform, to master speech? How?
17. A word about silence. Is there a “feat of silence”?
18. A word about the art of the Word. Is there a “feat of communication”?
19. Is it worth studying abroad?
20. Will the concept of “Motherland” be preserved in the future?
21. Should we talk about God in school and university?
22. Do we live for pleasure or something else?
23. Is it possible to talk about equality between men and women?
24. Is it possible to water an immortal soul with the water of earthly pleasures?
25. Is it possible to build a just world in the modern world?
26. Is it possible to live without deception?
27. Is politics always- “dirty business”? What “good” politicians do I know?
28. Is “honest word” and “pure business” possible in business?
29. "Blessed are the meek..."- Is it so?
30. Is it possible to overcome the generation gap?
31. All beauty will fade...Is there beauty that will not fade?
32. And “what is beauty? And why do people deify her?”
33. Do you need to be able to forgive? Does everyone know how to forgive?
34. Why do you need to know history?
35. What day in history would you like to live through?
36. What is fashion? Style? Life style?
37. Reward or punish?
38. What do you consider the best invention of mankind?
39. Is it profitable to be a good person?
40. Is it possible to convince a fool?
41. What is inspiration?
42. Should we strive for fame and fortune?
Topics - theses and aphorisms
1. In life there is a sea of evil, and goodness is an ocean (Archimandrite Rafail).
2. People travel overseas for happiness, but it- in our heart. Look for happiness in your own heart.
3. The happiest person is the one who gives happiness to the greatest number of people (D. Diderot).
4. No matter what happens, don't lose courage... (L.N. Wait a minute).
5. The science of being happy is simple: love your responsibilities and seek pleasure in them.
6. There are more important things than happiness... (Andrei Tarkovsky).
7. Now children do not play, but study. They all study and study and will never begin to live (A.S. Green).
8. The most difficult thing in the art of words- is to make yourself a judge (M. Prishvin).
9. Conversations that go on for a long time consume life (Basily the Great).
10. Eloquence, like pearls, sparkles with content. Real wisdom is laconic (L.N. Tolstoy).
11. Short thoughts are good because they force the serious reader to think for himself (L.N. Tolstoy).
12. You need to joke in order to do serious things (Aristotle).
13. Pride is a kind of contempt for everyone else except oneself (Theophrastus, ancient Greek philosopher).
14. In a dispute, audacity and eloquence often win, but not truth (Menander, ancient Greek playwright and poet).
15. Time will reveal a friend like gold- fire (Menander).
16. The talent of great souls is to recognize the great in other people (N.M. Karamzin).
17. Yes, pitiful is the one whose conscience is unclean (A.S. Pushkin. Boris Godunov).
18. Immortality is the goal of human life (N.F. Koshansky, Pushkin’s teacher, the topic of an essay at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum).
19. There is hardly any higher pleasure than the pleasure of creating (N.V. Gogol).
20. Inspiration is not the exclusive property of the artist... it is everywhere, in every business, in every work (V.G. Belinsky).
21. Cheerfulness is an outstanding human trait (F.M. Dostoevsky).
22. The main thing in a person- not the mind, but what controls it: character, heart, good feelings, advanced ideas (F.M. Dostoevsky).
23. The highest and most characteristic feature of our people- this is a sense of justice and a thirst for it (F.M. Dostoevsky).
24. When the Don Quixotes are finished, let the book of History close. There will be nothing to read in it (I.A. Turgenev).
25. You can only hate life as a result of apathy and laziness (L.N. Tolstoy).
26. Knowledge without a moral basis means nothing (L.N. Tolstoy).
Speeches delivered at the Final Lesson of the Express Rhetoric Course at the Central House of Artists on December 5, 2002.
For the reader who wants to present the results of the work in an express course on rhetoric, we publish several speeches by our graduates. Please keep in mind that what is written is what is said, but the reader does not hear the voice, does not see the speaker, does not feel the energy with which the speech is pronounced, and is not present in the atmosphere of creative elation and inspiration that reigns in the hall. However, written text says a lot: you can analyze thoughts, evaluate words, feel the development of thoughts and words in sentences that appear either primitively simple or common and ornate.
So, transport yourself mentally to one of the best theater halls in Moscow and “listen” to the public speeches of student speakers at the “Evening of Russian Eloquence”, at the sacred conclusion of the Express Course in Rhetoric and Culture of Communication. Whether they are good is for you to judge, dear reader.
1. The first was Artem Eremin’s speech about happiness. We are publishing this speech with comments that record the provisions of the speech plan that allowed the speaker to remember the composition of the speech and energetically move along it during the speech without looking at the text.
Happiness is movement and work on the road of knowledge
(Introduction: about the difficulties of the topic)
There is no more difficult topic than the topic of happiness. Everything that people talk about, writes Aristotle in Rhetoric, is happiness. (And he is perhaps the first to give a definition: happiness is the possession of goods, combined with virtue. But new questions immediately arise: what is considered good, what kind of person is good, i.e., in the old sense, “virtuous”?)
Remember your states of happiness... Remember them and record them in your memory forever! Happiness is a state in which we are filled with positive emotions and a person glows from within.
(1. S. - not an achievement, but a movement)
AND I would like to ask: when do we glow? They say that happiness- this is the achievement of something, getting what you want, but Socrates rightly sneered at this definition of his students: will you strive for something if you have already achieved it?.. How many people we see who have achieved something - and stopped in motion, they stopped striving. Gave birth to a child, built a house, planted a tree - that’s all? Is life over? - No! “It’s too early for us to die...” - create new “things” for yourself. But deeds mean work, difficulties, striving, movement, you just need to have a guiding star that warms the heart and illuminates the path of life.
And I would even say - the Milky Way, when in the night your gaze moves from one star to another, from another to a third - and you take on new heights.
(2. S. - misfortune)
But when are we happy? And who truly appreciates life and its happy moments? - One who has experienced grief. How
Saadi once said, “Without experiencing misfortune, you will not achieve your cherished happiness.” Everything in life is mixed up, but happiness is appreciated only by those who have experienced the road of difficulties and suffering, who can say: there is a sea of evil in the world, and an ocean of good. Wise elders are usually like this (by the way, they are in every family) - they are not affected by any misfortunes, they only become stronger and appreciate every minute of happiness on this earth more and more.
(3. S. - luck?)
There are many myths regarding happiness. The two most common are the myths about happiness as luck and happiness as pleasure.
They say: happiness is windy and fickle; it often appears when you don’t expect it. But happiness comes to those who help themselves with their mind and work... Help yourself with your mind and don’t build castles in the air - you will find peace and quiet in your heart...
(4. S. - pleasure?)
Does happiness love pleasure? As B. Pascal said, “Whoever enters the house of happiness through the door of pleasure usually leaves through the door of suffering.” Pleasure comes on its own. Today we came here through the door of difficulties, exciting expectations, fear for the success of our speeches - as a result (I am sure) we will be happy. But, having reached small peaks, it will be necessary to go further and further. We do not know this path, but we know that we will not stop, because stopping is death, moving along the difficult road of knowledge is happiness and life!
2. And here is the speech of Jamila Sairamova about mercy to the belly! nom. Jamilya is a journalist who works for the Teacher's Newspaper. We also publish it with some explanations that the speaker makes in order to remember the text according to the main milestones of the text. - vivisection, i.e. experimentation on animals.
1. The first experiments on animals began to be done in XVII century, and XVIII century. is rightfully considered the most cruel in science. But in the 19th century. vivisection was severely criticized by Victor Hugo, Charles Darwin, Bernard Shaw, and Leo Tolstoy. They argued that cruelty to animals is an indelible sin, so it is necessary to get rid of this barbarity.
2. And what? XX century not only did he not abolish this cruelty, but intensified it. Justifying it by the need to develop science and save people, scientists are forced to maim and kill animals. Question: is there a real need for this? In our laboratories, animals are burned, scalded, poisoned, starved, shocked, given drugs, broken bones and brain damage. However, the difference between the processes occurring in the human body and the animal body has been repeatedly proven. Who listened to this conclusion?
3. Isn’t it possible to carry out tests on cells and bacteria, single-celled organisms? Couldn’t it have been possible to immediately replace the industrial Dreiser test for cosmetics, when a test product is applied to the cornea of a rabbit’s eye and wait until the eye dies, with a test on a chicken egg membrane?
You have repeatedly heard the expression “let’s have a drink and warm ourselves up.” It is believed in everyday life that alcohol is a good means of warming the body; it is not without reason that alcohol is often called a “strong drink.” Researchers in the field of the benefits of alcohol have found that alcohol is indispensable for colds, and a glass of cognac lowers blood pressure.
Reuters reported two good news about beer: it contains vitamins and is considered one of the best sedatives. To confirm what I have said, I will tell you one story. My friends were recently in England with their small child. It’s no secret to anyone that there are situations when a child sleeps poorly and is capricious. And to help the child and themselves, of course, they took the advice of an English luminary in the field of pediatrics - add a little alcohol to the drink. And as a result, a peaceful sleep came to this house.
The oldest woman on the planet, 114-year-old Morris from Scotland, shared the secret of her longevity. She managed to live to a record age thanks to a healthy diet: every day she ate boiled onions and drank a glass of whiskey.
And now we come to the most valuable property of alcohol: alcohol excites, invigorates, improves mood, makes conversation more lively and interesting... “... Let's drink out of grief, where is the mug - it will be more fun for the heart!” And what fun would it be without a Russian feast with treats, without a bottle of wine, vodka, and then another and another?! We drink for grief, for joy, for acquaintance, for victory, for luck, for happiness, for friendship, etc. etc., and at the end on the road and the movement of the legs. “A celebration without vodka is like a celebration without a photo.”
Not to drink! - the opponent will object and add: - alcohol has long been called the thief of sanity.
Pirogov also said that there is not a single organ in the human body that would not be subject to the destructive effects of alcohol.
There is an opinion that drunkenness is supposedly an ancient tradition of the Russian people. In this case, they refer to the words
Svetlana RumyantsevaHobbies make a person's life brighter and more interesting. A pleasant activity distracts you from the monotony of everyday life, saves you in difficult life situations, and sometimes becomes a means of earning money and a professional calling. A hobby reveals a new side to a person. Hobby becomes a small weakness and a strong passion. What can you be passionate about and enjoy?
Hobbies in a person's life
A passionate person perceives life more positively for several reasons:
Pleasure. When you do something enjoyable, endorphins enter your bloodstream, which has a positive effect on your mood and well-being.
Self confidence. Success in your favorite activity. Some hobbies are specifically aimed at strengthening.
Benefit. Any hobby bears fruit in exchange for effort. The needlewoman decorates the house with decorative pillows, knits sweaters for her son and husband, and sews dresses for her daughter. An amateur gardener gets a harvest, a fisherman gets tasty fish, a dancer gets a beautiful figure.
Self-realization. Passion helps to discover talents and understand what really attracts a person in life.
What are your hobbies?
To choose an activity to your liking, you need to know what hobbies are. Getting carried away is not as easy as it seems. Addictions change over the years and depend on life situations, character, abilities, and availability of free time.
Needlework. A woman's favorite hobby. Craftswomen embroider, knit, weave beads, and create handmade crafts and decorative items. Some make toys, some make postcards. Various materials are used for needlework: fabric, threads, beads and sewing accessories, paper, clay, puff pastry, wax. The scope for imagination is huge: you can create soap sculptures or make origami figures.
Art. Drawing attracts both sexes of all ages. The abundance of directions, techniques and materials opens up scope for creativity. You can paint flowers in oil or make pastel pictures, imitating Degas, invent non-existent characters or draw fantasy castles. Passion for fine art often becomes a way to earn money. On the Internet you will find many groups in which young authors sell portraits in the pop art style, abstract pictures and works using unique techniques. Positive art is particularly popular and is exhibited in galleries alongside the work of professional artists.
Developmental courses. At any course you can meet an enthusiastic person with a notebook. He comes for new knowledge. His goal is to put one more tick on the list of events attended. Yesterday he was at a lecture on psychology, today he came to a cooking class, and tomorrow he will be among the people studying photography.
Music. This hobby includes playing musical instruments, developing vocal skills, or simply attending concerts and studying musical movements. The passion for music captures representatives of different ages, male and female. Some gather small groups, some record amateur albums, and some play for themselves in the evening.
Dancing. And here the choice is huge: ballroom, sports, ethnic, modern, street dances. By doing choreography, you will develop body flexibility, master the symbolism of movements, and learn to express emotions using body language. singles, doubles, group. This is a great way to communicate and get to know each other, and develop communication skills.
Photo. Amateur photographers do not see the meaning of life without the pursuit of rare shots. Creating a series of thematic photos sometimes takes years. Some people take pictures of everything and then choose the best, while others are ready to sit in ambush all day for the sake of a successful photograph. The camera becomes an indispensable friend and companion in any situation.
Sports, fitness. With the growing popularity of a healthy lifestyle, interest in sports is also increasing. A beautiful figure and good health, what could be better?
Yoga. Eastern practice aimed at cleansing the spiritual shell and maintaining physical strength. Helps, teaches self-control and deep inner work, tightens the figure and improves health. Most often attracts female representatives.
Collecting. Anything can become a collectible: coins, cards, books, calendars, stickers, toy cars. Some collections delight in the uniqueness and diversity of their specimens. In private galleries, from time to time, amateur collections are exhibited, whatever happens to be there: old postcards, porcelain dolls with joints, lost letters... In world history, there are also strange collections of adhesive plasters, pills, and even umbilical hair.
Language learning. How many times a day do you see announcements from foreign language schools? They offer to teach everyone English, French, German, Spanish and other European languages. The popularity of such courses is growing every day. Programs on teaching French are shown on TV, websites for learning English are created on the Internet, and in bookstores you can easily find a Chinese tutorial. Exotic lovers choose dead languages to master: Latin, Ancient Greek. There are also fans of non-existent languages like Tolkien's Elvish dialects.
Construction. This hobby is typical of males. Taking apart an old phone, printer and TV and creating a new gadget out of them is not an easy task. But the creativity of designers merges with the power of analytical abilities, and unimaginable creations are born.
Fishing. A man's hobby. Anglers are often drawn to fishing, but some males replace this hobby with sports.
Blogs. Youth hobby. Blogs and pages on social networks help you tell a lot of people about yourself and your hobbies. Some create, others prepare sweet delicacies and share recipes in an electronic diary, others talk about travel, and others collect fairy tales and share them with readers. A blogger's imagination is unlimited.
Reconstruction, role-playing games. Princesses, knights and characters from fairy tale books come to life in role-playing games. Reenactors recreate historical massacres. At the festivals, beautiful ladies in ancient dresses and gentlemen in armor gather, here men wave swords, shoot arrows and are nostalgic for the ancient times of medieval life. Fans of fantasy books organize their events. Separate gatherings are organized by fans of Japanese culture, dressing up as anime and manga characters. Japanese lovers call such transformations cosplay.
Garden. An experienced gardener knows exactly how to care for apple trees and plant plum trees. The best reward for a gardener is a rich harvest that will last for the whole year. Large red tomatoes offered as a treat to a neighbor are a real reason for pride. This hobby attracts older people because it requires a lot of free time and patience.
This is not a complete list of hobbies. The world is full of examples of unique hobbies. Try your strength in different directions. Maybe you will like something that you couldn’t even think of before!
Hobbies and character
Hobbies can determine a person’s character, his emotional and mental state. People seek satisfaction in hobbies. With the help of what you love, internal problems are solved. By making up for the lack of something, a person improves well-being and maintains.
Hobbies are a good way to prevent depression and other mental disorders.
People of an egocentric nature tend to collect; they also like to engage in demonstrative creativity in order to receive the appreciation and approval of others in the process.
They direct their energy towards communication, are interested in history, travel - everything connected with people. When engaging in photography, an extrovert is interested in the subject of the photograph. His focus is on the person, not on the artistry of the photo.
Introverts who are searching for themselves engage in art and psychology. They are interested in understanding the depths of their own nature through passion.
Assiduous and neat people choose hobbies that require patience. Phlegmatic people can sit for hours at painstaking work, assembling a detailed model of the aircraft with a count of all the seats and parts of the control panel in the cockpit. These people enjoy the process.
Active and restless individuals prefer sports or active hobbies. To tickle their nerves, they jump with a parachute, snowboard, and organize surf swims.
Wrestlers by nature choose activities with obligatory competition: playing football, basketball, tennis, and even sports fishing, the main thing is competition. Pleasure comes with a feeling of victory, and defeat spurs you to new exploits and forces you to mobilize your strength in the future.
People seeking tranquility love handicrafts: knitting, embroidery, sewing. This activity helps to take your mind off the hustle and bustle of everyday life and calm your nerves after a difficult day at work.
Creative people with unconventional thinking tend to design and invent. Men assemble a new model of power supply for a computer, improve gadgets, and come up with original methods for repairing an old car that lives only thanks to the thirst for experiments. Women, in a burst of creativity, invent a new cut for dresses, create original and functional household items and furniture from non-standard materials. The main goal of creatives: to invent something unusual.
Hobby makes a person happy and puts him in a positive mood. Having found your favorite activity, you will paint your gray everyday life with new colors and break out of the circle of monotony.
21 March 2014, 15:31Topics-questions
1. The world is governed by the Word. Body-monster-word?
2. What is true culture? How to raise a cultured person?
3. Is Russia being reborn? Where is the bird-three rushing?
4. Why can’t you build a good life with a bad tongue?
5. What do we sing and what will we sing? Tell me what you sing and I will tell you who you are.
6. Internet: is it necessary to become entangled in the World Wide Web?
7. What is a person in the world of modern technology?
8. Modern television: good or evil?
9. TV – the voice of the people or a deception that pleases us?
10. TV guys, isn't it time to send the Yankees to go home?
11. What are you passionate about, a modern person?
12. Computer: does it kill the ability for live communication?
13. Should we chase success? What is success?
14. Does post-Soviet society believe in God?
16. Is it possible to learn to speak, perform, speak well? How?
17. A word about silence. Is there a “feat of silence”?
18. A word about the art of the Word. Is there a “feat of communication”?
19. Is it worth studying abroad?
20. Will the concept of “Motherland” be preserved in the future?
21. Should we talk about God at school and university?
22. Do we live for pleasure or something else?
23. Is it possible to talk about equality between men and women?
24. Is it possible to water an immortal soul with the water of earthly pleasures?
25. Is it possible to build a just world in the modern world?
26. Is it possible to live without deception?
27. Is politics always a “dirty business”? What “good” politicians do I know?
28. Is “honest word” and “pure business” possible in business?
29. “Blessed are the meek...” - is this true?
30. Is it possible to overcome the generational conflict?
31. All beauty will fade... Is there beauty that will not fade?
32. “What is beauty? And why do people deify her?”
33. Do you need to be able to forgive? Does everyone know how to forgive?
34. Why do you need to know history?
35. What day in history would you like to live through?
36. What is fashion? Style? Life style?
37. Reward or punish?
38. What do you consider the best invention of mankind?
39. Is it profitable to be a good person?
40. Is it possible to convince a fool?
41. What is inspiration?
42. Should we strive for fame and wealth?
1. In life there is a sea of evil, and goodness is an ocean. (Archimandrite Raphael).
2. People travel overseas for happiness, but it is in our hearts. Look for happiness in your own heart.
3. The happiest person is the one who gives happiness to the greatest number of people. (D. Diderot)
4. Whatever happens, don’t lose courage... /L. Tolstoy/
5. The science of being happy is simple: love your duties and seek pleasure in them.
6. There are more important things than happiness... (Andrei Tarkovsky)
7. Now children do not play, but study. Οʜᴎ everyone studies, studies and never begins to live (A.S. Green)
8. The most difficult thing in the art of words is to make yourself a judge (M. Prishvin).
9. Conversations that go on for a long time devour life (Basily the Great).
10. Eloquence, like pearls, shines with content. True wisdom is laconic (L. Tolstoy)
11. Short thoughts are good because they force the serious reader to think for himself (L.N. Tolstoy).
12. You need to joke in order to do serious things (Aristotle).
13. Pride is a kind of contempt for everyone else except oneself (Theophrastus, ancient Greek philosopher)
14. In a dispute, audacity and eloquence often win, but not truth (Menander, ancient Greek playwright and poet).
15. Time reveals a friend like gold reveals fire (Menander)
16. The talent of great souls is to recognize the great in other people (Karamzin)
17. Yes, pitiful is the one whose conscience is unclean (Pushkin. Boris Godunov)
18. Immortality is the goal of human life (Koshansky, Pushkin’s teacher, the topic of an essay at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum)
19. There is hardly a higher pleasure than the pleasure of creating (Gogol)
20. Inspiration is not the exclusive property of the artist; ... it is everywhere, in every business, in every work (Belinsky)
21. Cheerfulness is an outstanding human trait (Dostoevsky)
22. The main thing in a person is not the mind, but what controls him: character, heart, good feelings, advanced ideas (Dostoevsky)
23. The highest and most characteristic feature of our people is a sense of justice and a thirst for it (Dostoevsky)
24. When the Don Quixotes are finished, let the book of History close. There will be nothing to read in it (Turgenev)
25. You can only hate life due to apathy and laziness (L. Tolstoy)
26. Knowledge without a moral basis means nothing (L. Tolstoy)
According to psychologists, the lack of leisure activities and things to do for the soul has a detrimental effect on a person’s psychological state. We need creative release, an outlet for the implementation of ideas forgotten on the shelf, space to express our imagination, a field for the manifestation of hidden personality abilities, otherwise we will get lost in the boring quagmire of life. Some of the most useful options for spending time are creative activities in which a part of the soul is embodied, aspirations and desires, secret reserves, and talents become tangible. For example, someone makes dolls, figurines from clay, wood, sews toys, slippers, knits mittens, socks, someone draws, cross-stitches, takes photographs, breeds cats, reads books. Active types of hobbies are also useful: sports, dancing, traveling, diving, gardening. Creative activities - movement and development of mental energy, active types of hobbies - combine the realization of mental and physical potentials.
Some of the most unproductive “hobbies” are watching TV, aimlessly surfing the Internet, negative “hanging out” with friends, endless shopping, casino games, frequent visits to nightclubs and places of mass entertainment.
The choice of hobby depends on the level of personal development, preferences, character, temperament, and on the availability of certain types of leisure, on the availability of time, opportunities, and desire to pursue one’s hobbies. Routine work in an office or physical, but often also monotonous, in a factory - as the main, most absorbing filling of life, colors it gray. And there is an overwhelming majority of people employed in such categories of labor among the working population. If you don’t dilute the dull color, your attitude, mood, and everything around becomes gray. For few people, work is at the same time a favorite pastime, in which there is room for the flight of the soul, and work that you like is important both for the soul and for the quality of the work done. A hobby generally does not have the goal of making money, but it can develop into a business. In general, I think everyone agrees that hobbies and hobbies are needed. But still, if ideally a hobby can be understood as some kind of useful activity, then in reality, a hobby is often a banal, modest activity.
What are your hobbies today?
There are enough among us who prefer some unusual, fantasy types of creativity. However, unfortunately, the picture of reality is such that the majority prefer “lazy” or easy, useless leisure activities.
According to the FOM survey (2014), 17% of the population as a whole do not have leisure time, among those working - 21%. Among the remaining 83% who have free time, they spend it on: the most popular activity is watching TV, chatting with friends, household chores, playing with children and grandchildren, reading, getting closer to nature, “doing nothing,” “getting together” on the Internet, “comp”, sports, handicrafts, gardening, gardening, visiting the theatre, cinema, museums, exhibitions, fishing, hunting, dancing in clubs, discos, creative activities, listening to music, solving crossword puzzles, shopping, car tuning, restoration, renovating an apartment, house, learning something, improving health, 3% are engaged in an incomprehensible hobby, 3% found it difficult to give a name to their leisure activity.
As for activity in visiting real crowded places and the pulsation of life, the most popular places are shopping centers and shops, which is relevant for all categories of respondents. Among people with access to resources, parks, forests, nature are in second place in terms of frequency of visits, baths, saunas are in third, cafes and restaurants are in fourth, cinemas are in fifth, concerts are in sixth, then exhibitions, museums, excursions , zoos, billiards, bowling, swimming pool, sports club, etc. Among the working caste, the picture is approximately the same in places, but in percentage terms it is a little poorer than in the case of the first category. Libraries are visited by 10% of the general population.
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In the photo: Green stripe - population as a whole - relevant for all groups
And if, answering the question about how they spend their free time, they said that 18% watch TV, then in the case of answering the question “Do you have hobbies, favorite activities that are not related to work or study? If so, what are these hobbies related to, what exactly do you do?” — the vast majority of respondents chose to watch TV.
FOM data, it is not known what this correlation is connected with, perhaps with a difference in the formulation of the question or in the interpretation of the information. However, it is already clear: television and the Internet have drawn a lot of people into their networks, and this is far from 18% of the population.
In general, 46% of the population as a whole watches TV as a favorite pastime, 24% surf the Internet, but among the age group 18-30 years old, as many as 49% are constantly on the World Wide Web and consider it the main hobby in life, 38 % watch TV, 54% highlight communication with friends as an important hobby. 32% of respondents like a dacha, a vegetable garden, 30% for reading, 19% for cooking, 18% for raising pets, 19% for cars, 13% for fishing, hunting, 13% for handicrafts and the like, 10% for sports, music, singing - 9%, floristry, floriculture - 8%, computer games - 8%, the rarest hobbies - artistic creativity (4%), dancing (3%). Women with higher education read the most, and most often women are involved in raising animals, flowers, cooking and handicrafts.
And here is what data taken from the page of one blogger tells us (it is indicated that the survey was conducted among a wide circle of acquaintances of the person who wrote the post):
“How do people spend their free time?”
Holidays abroad - 13.7%
Computer games - 8.5%
Books - 20.8%
Visiting cultural institutions - 26.5%
Hobbies - 23.7%
Health promotion - 20.8%
No money for “culture” - 46%
“Do you have a hobby and what? ”
No - 51.2%
Collecting - 20.4%, more about coin collecting
Active recreation - 9.5%
Near-sports games - 6.2%
Applied arts - 8.5%
Technohobbies - 6.6%
Floriculture - 11.4%
Two hobbies - 13.7%
“Do you attend cultural events?”
Theater - 49.8%
Cinema - 37%
Concerts - 31.7%
Exhibitions - 40.3%
I don’t attend - 27.9%
If you look at Wikipedia, a hobby is not watching TV at all, it’s some kind of unusual activity that people do almost secretly. They come home from work, having bought a new antique stamp from 1949 on the way home, carefully tuck it into a solid album with hundreds of similar pictures, admire it, and then hide everything on the mezzanine. This is a hobby. It turns out that most Russians simply do not have a hobby. That is, either they have a favorite job, or they have absolutely no time, or a regular activity to relieve boredom, or they are too lazy to start not only a hobby, but also a job.
Of the unique activities, the most loud and sophisticated are phaletistics (collecting various medals and badges), scripophilia (collecting out-of-circulation securities), scrapbooking (creating and designing family or personal photo albums), treasure hunting, swimming with sharks in a cage, carving (cutting out on eggshells, vegetables, fruits). But, it should be noted, completely extraordinary hobbies can subtly cross the line of abnormality. For example, why would an adult, adequate person collect a collection of scissors, Soviet-era glass bottles, and tattered tickets from all the departure stations the traveler has visited? Or put yourself in danger... Extreme sports carefully are one thing, but playing with sharks, walking on balcony railings, etc. is another.
Despite the fact that very few activities such as picking mushrooms, berries, fishing, and hunting are found in surveys, many people prefer them.
Recently, previously exotic types of hobbies have become popular, such as origami, decoupage, wool felting, bead weaving, making postcards from scrap materials with your own hands, stained glass painting, sewing and making dolls, toys, building models (aircraft, house models, temples, making natural soap with various additives, decorating old pieces of furniture in unexpected (bright, opposite to the previous style) colors and shapes, decorating various things, collecting antique boxes, wooden carved plates, mirrors, wood burning... In general, some of these hobbies have become fashionable; if earlier handicrafts were considered a boring activity, today they are beginning to look at this area differently.
People gravitate towards creating something simple and at the same time unusual with their own hands, adding spice, zest, stylizing in a vintage style, bending the part to the side, so as not to be like everyone else. Girls wear bracelets and beaded earrings, knitted with their own hands. This is also a kind of feature of the times - “decoration from the past” or with ethnic motifs, bright colors. A friend of mine, for example, knits beads from woolen threads, wrapping balls around rolled foil and small blanks of different materials. If a couple of years ago such jewelry was taken reluctantly, today the demand for it is much higher.
Other interesting activities today include: reading e-books on the bus, writing poetry not for publication, photography - at an amateur or professional level, collecting dollars, chess, collecting refrigerator magnets, Argentine tango, walking through abandoned places, playing the guitar.
According to VTsIOM, the most popular leisure activities, namely hobbies, are picking berries and mushrooms (every second prefers this type of hobby - 44%), every fourth fishes - 25%, and much less often - every twenty-fifth (that is, 4%) - 8% of respondents hunt and collect herbs (admittedly, the data is from 2013, but it’s unlikely that anything has changed dramatically).
“Fishing is especially popular among 25-44 year olds (31-33%), wealthy (32%) respondents. Older respondents are least interested in fishing (12%). Fishing is the main male hobby: 42% of men surveyed are interested in it. However, there are also fans of fishing among women (10%).
As for other types of leisure, going to the forest to pick mushrooms and berries is most popular among Muscovites and St. Petersburg residents (55%), women (47%), 35-59-year-olds (48-50%), picking herbs among women (10 %)"
They watch TV, pick mushrooms, do handicrafts, read... this, it turns out, is what most Russians do during their vacation.
Probably, if you look from the outside at knitting or making crafts, it may seem boring. But today's modernity, gloss and drive, brought to the sphere of creativity, have attracted many doubters to join the group of those who create things with their own hands. Bright colors of materials, satin ribbons, beads reminiscent of Swarovski crystals - this will make a completely different card than paper and colored cardboard. It's very addictive and enlivening. And psychologists say that working with materials, creating images, paintings, and art therapy are some of the best options for releasing negative emotions, getting rid of depression, and switching consciousness from a problem to a positive one. In general, handicrafts and creativity have become a creative activity.
“Passion” means not only the desire for activity, but also a break from the preoccupation with everyday life that interferes with the development of potential, a distraction.
Therefore, instead of watching TV, it is better to make a beautiful postcard, sign up for a dance, or go fishing.
Today life is very fast-paced, in modern society there are no longer enough 24 hours in a day to manage all current affairs, and there is even less time for rest and leisure. A large percentage of the population lives according to the principle: from Monday to Friday, and on weekends people simply sleep off, coming to their senses after a busy week of work. The picture repeats itself from year to year, this is how life goes!
This situation should not be allowed, and if you already have such an abnormal image in all respects, you need to urgently correct it.
Man is a biological being; he needs rest, but not only that. He has a mind and a whole range of needs that each has their own. Some people don’t need anything other than their favorite sofa, TV and a hearty dinner, while others strive for more.
The presence of some hobbies or hobby, which is given to with all passion, helps to overcome the everyday routine, to bring something new, exciting and interesting to life.
There are hobbies that can be divided into 2 main groups:
- for the soul: handicrafts (knitting, embroidery, beading, etc.), scrapbooking, soap making, decoupage, patchwork, origami, aromatherapy, pottery, wood carving, modeling, collecting, felting - felting, cooking, shopping, photography, gardening, “silent hunting”, aquarium keeping, carving and many others, as far as your imagination allows.
- hobbies focused on an active lifestyle: various sports, including extreme ones, fitness, dancing, yoga, sauna, fire twisting, stalking, diggering, historical reconstruction, geocaching, hunting, hitchhiking, etc.
As you can see, the list of hobbies is endless, there are a lot of interesting ways to organize and diversify your leisure time, all that remains is to choose an activity to your liking.
Another fascinating hobby that is rapidly gaining popularity due to its simplicity and, at the same time, entertainment, as well as the unlimited opportunity to show imagination, is Sand animation, sand or powder animation, in the original.
Using ordinary quartz sand, you can create not only drawings and landscapes, but also entire scenes for cartoons and comics.
Sand animation is a branch of fine art. Its origins occurred in 1969. American animator Carolyn Leaf demonstrated a cartoon created using this technique. In my opinion, it is a very interesting hobby.
To create bright and unique works, you will need, in fact, sand, as well as a surface that emits a glow. The light source is directed upward, and images are applied to the surface itself using sand; to draw small details, sand is poured in a thin layer. If you are not creating a static drawing, but an entire animated story, you can install a camera and film the entire course of the creative process.
This hobby will appeal not only to adults, but, of course, to children as well. In the process of work, imagination develops, as well as fine motor skills.
With the help of sand animation, you can put on a real show, invent and create a whole magical world.
Get carried away, try, create and enjoy the process and the result!