Why You Need to Have a Hobby (to Keep Your Brain from Misbehaving?)

Tweet

A few days ago, I woke up at around 4 a.m. But--since my Internet was down--I went back to sleep. I didn’t wake up again until NINE-THIRTY---THREE-AND-A-HALF-HOURS LATER THAN NORMAL! That’s when I realized a couple things (although it might also have been caused by a third thing---eating dinner an hour earlier than usual the night before): 1) like we talked about in my Brain-Injury Survivors’ Support-Group, a person NEEDS a 'hobby'---something they can do or think-about that ‘fulfills their brain’s hunger for accomplishment.’ (a hunger fed by ‘dopamine,’ a chemical the brain makes) And 2) my ‘hobby’ is ‘doing stuff on the Internet.’ (Writing like this, yes; but more-often it’s playing computer-games (mostly puzzle-type games) “while waiting for people to respond to my writing”). What hobby do you think is best to keep your brain "crisp"?