Description: A three panel comic often referred to as “No take, only throw.” The first panel is a dog biting a toy with the caption “I want to be good at my hobbies.” The second panel is the dog looking angry and refusing to let go of the toy when a hand reaches out to throw it for the dog again, and it has the caption “No practice.” The third panel is the dog, still angry and refusing to let go of the toy, with the caption “Only good.”

  • spiffy_spaceman@lemmy.world
    28·
    10 months ago

    I feel like, at least in America – and it might be just my part of America – we feel like our hobbies have to make us look better. I can’t just take photos, they have to be really good photos and I should look into selling them. You can’t just like to make cakes, you have to make amazing cakes and do it for friends’ parties. There’s not enough emphasis on just do something you like because it makes you happy. This doesn’t have to be a competition. It doesn’t matter if your shit is abysmal as long as you enjoy doing it. Have fun!

    • lobelia581@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      i also feel a lot of peer pressure to be perfect, but this time i was feeling down because i had just restarted after taking a long break and was doing a lot worse than i used to. it’s not as if i can go back to being as good as i was without practicing though, so i just have to keep doing it and laugh a bit to feel better

  • Weyland@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    10 months ago

    If you don’t enjoy doing your hobby unless you’re producing something of substance that can help you receive praise from others. Is it really a hobby you do for the sake of personal enjoyment and growth or just something you think society views as a worthwhile past time you’ve latched onto just to get validation?

  • Mango@lemmy.world
    8·
    10 months ago

    I became the top ranked Project Muse player by accident. 😎

    Turns out that obsession can make you good.

  • Praise Idleness@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    I think this a lot too but at the end of the day, it won’t be much fun of a hobby when you don’t even need any practices. Part of having a nice hobby for me is having that moment when all the gradual works pay off.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      I’ve seen it described as humans need some general ideas to feel like life has a point.

      I’ve seen it broken down as autonomy (the feeling of driving your own destiny), mastery (the feeling of mastering a subject), and purpose (the feeling that what you’re doing “means something”).

      Hobbies often fill the niche of “mastery” despite not improving our lives appreciably outwardly.

  • lichtmetzger@feddit.de
    2·
    9 months ago

    Great, my hobby is going to the cinema every week. Doesn’t need any practice, just sit ya ass down and watch.