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[00:01.49]Lesson 46
[00:03.64]Hobbies
[00:11.46]Who, according to the author, are 'Fortune's favoured children'?
[00:18.88]A gifted American psychologist has said, 'Worry is a spasm of the emotion;
[00:25.30]the mind catches hold of something and will not let it go.'
[00:29.99]It is useless to argue with the mind in this condition.
[00:33.61]The stronger the will, the more futile the task.
[00:37.48]One can only gently insinuate something else into its convulsive grasp.
[00:43.08]And if this something else is rightly chosen, if it is really attended by the illumination of another field of interest,
[00:50.92]gradually, and often quite swiftly, the old undue grip relaxes and the process of recuperation and repair begins.
[01:00.61]The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of the first importance to a public man.
[01:08.94]But this is not a business that can be undertaken in a day or swiftly improvised by a mere command of the will.
[01:17.23]The growth of alternative mental interests is a long process.
[01:22.48]The seeds must be carefully chosen; they must fall on good ground;
[01:28.38]they must be sedulously tended, if the vivifying fruits are to be at hand when needed.
[01:36.19]To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.