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A comment on Ask HN: What are your non-tech hobbies?.

Re:Ask HN: What are your non-tech hobbies? by grobbie on Saturday September 04, 2021 @04:08AM (#28413117)
Reading - lots of philosophy, sociology, economics, even some theology - anything that triggers my neurons

HIIT, 10ks, resistance training, Yoga

Mindfulness and meditation

Painting and drawing, visiting art galleries

Weekend travel

Playing musical instruments very badly

Similarly started feeling that I was overdosing on tech and becoming a bore with too little perspective and a lack of emotional empathy, so I made a big effort to balance out my life. But the struggle is real and ongoing : )

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Re:Ask HN: What are your non-tech hobbies? by zachrip on Saturday September 04, 2021 @04:58AM (#28413355)
Which do you feel had the most impact on growing empathy?
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Re:Ask HN: What are your non-tech hobbies? by grobbie on Saturday September 04, 2021 @05:14AM (#28413435)
I would say mindfulness is perhaps the biggest empathy amplifier, but it is reading that has the biggest empathy growth impact for me.

Reading feeds my empathy by helping me to build and maintain a broad perspective; practising mindfulness helps me to apply it.

Many say that even reading pulp fiction can help to build empathy, so you probably need not read philosophers and economists if that's deterring to you; I can't personally testify to that though because fiction doesn't really hold my interest.

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