- Aids in skill development
One of the most important results of having a good hobby is that; it provides opportunities for skill development and networking. Being an active member of NCC or Rotract young Indians or Toastmasters or similar clubs will certainly help you in improving building your communication and leadership skills.
Your ability to organize meetings and events, and manage time and people, while effectively moreover, this aids you to learn the value of making commitments, handling issues, and executing decisions. For instance, voluntary or community work could help you learn planning and organizational skills while also helping to construct problem-solving, bookkeeping, budgeting, and accounting abilities.
Engagement in NGO educational services outside your regular studies could help you learn the art of teaching or counseling children, fundraising and knowledge leadership skills, teamwork ability, and, your placement sessions or work life. - Hobbies help build your network
Once you have a hobby, it can open up all kinds of social opportunities for you. Hobbies help you build connections and establish a wider network. Remember, hobbies are powerful networking tools. having a hobby can also put you in the right place to make the right connection for better growth in your career.
Playing golf has become an executive hobby. Most CEOs and business tycoons play gold not just for the sake of playing but for several business reasons too. The golf course is a turf where very many business deals are made. True friendships are often struck as much as the deals on the golf course. As a student, you don't have to play golf to understand the crux of networking. See what you can engage in, within your areas of interest as
per possibilities available around you. - Hobbies make your life more interesting.
Hobbies help in bringing out your latent talents, interests, and passion. As a person, you are versatile and interesting. It gives you something different to share with people. when someone asks you to share something interesting about yourself, usually seems a struggle to come up with an apt answer. Having a hobby, however, makes such questions easy as a cakewalk.
In one of the interviews, a student explained her hobby of kick Boxing with great passion and interest, which truly amazed the interview. The latter's respect for her increased manifold, once they knew that she was a national-level kickboxing champ. All this, when her parents from a small town overcame hurdles galore! It offered an excellent opportunity to have a good conversation that in turn helped in understanding the student better, which ultimately led to the hiring possibility,
Developing a hobby can instill a sense of purpose in life beyond your studies
and it makes life more interesting, enjoyable and fulfilling. - Hobbies make you a leader
While people argue that they don't have time for hobbies, research says that hobbies make people better at running their life or business in some important areas. People tend to become better in their decision-making, systematic thinking, creativity, and confidence, with a hobby in tow.
If playing chess is your favorite hobby, it is more evident that you'll be better at making calculated and careful moves in business as well. Mastering a new skill, whether it's playing a sport or playing a musical instrument, requires a systematic approach that includes trial and error, patience, and practice. These are important business skills too.
Whether you're winning a championship, running a marathon, or finally reading a book, hobby milestones can give you a sense of accomplishment and confidence that spills into your other areas of life such as work or relationships. Your self
confidence receives a huge boost.
- Hobbies provide new opportunities in life
Hobbies are limitless in their ability to enrich lives and create opportunities. Hobbies could help you in finding, "who you are?" Hobbies offer means to help you find your innate abilities, and personality tidbits while sharpening your innate leadership traits.
If you're trying to increase your employability rating, then indulging in a hobby is a great place, to begin with. Hobbies enable you to meet new people, pick up life lessons and apply those to the way you live and work. All this could open up new possibilities and opportunities in your life.
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