Patience and Resilience: The Hallmarks of a Successful Hobby 

As a successful gardener, you will know the value of patience and resilience. Your knowledge is needed to know what plants are right for the climate and soil conditions you are trying to grow in.

Once implemented, patience is key as you wait for results. Resilience is needed as even then, it may not work out. Even instant gardens bought from pot plants take time and effort. These valuable skills can transfer to other hobbies, which we discuss below.

Skill vs Luck Based Hobbies

It can often be hard to differentiate between skill based hobbies and which ones are luck based. Skill based hobbies require patience, resilience and often a degree of prior learning. Once a practitioner has learnt the basics of the task, it is put into play then fate decides the outcome.

Luck based hobbies require little prior knowledge or skill, and thus fate decides the outcome throughout. An example of these would be the popular scratch cards found online. People try them for the possibility of an instant win, as they do in many casino games. However, they can be just as popular and have found a growing audience online.

Fishing

Fishing is a skill based hobby that is an easy switch for the avid gardener, as they share similar elements. Crucially, they are both hobbies that involve being outside and at one with nature. The angler and gardner are both meditative, often spending time sitting and thinking. If the appeal of gardening lies in spending your day outside, then think about how a day by a river with the sun on your face will be. For many, it is pure heaven.

However, fishing also requires a high level of patience and resilience. Fish are complex creatures, each with their own needs and habits. From the bait you use to catch them to find the right environments, much of this knowledge comes through years of patient study. Even then, catching a fish is hard. You may spend days at a river and not get a bite, then come back another day and get plenty.

Learning an Instrument

Much like learning a new language, learning an instrument can be one of the most rewarding and frustrating tasks you will ever undertake. It requires so much patience, as unless it is something you are competent in before, it requires a total rewiring of your brain. From how you hear sounds and pitch, all the way down to retraining your fine motor skills, there are no quick fixes.

Unless you have resilience, you won’t be able to learn an instrument. You need to rehearse over and over again, often getting what seems like a simple passage wrong multiple times. In some cases, you may even get blisters on your finger. Wind players will have to physically train their bodies to increase their lung capacity before they can progress, which is no easy feat.

However, if you are a gardener, then these feats should come naturally. Perseverance and resilience are something you will have already grown. In some circles, they may even say you have it in spades.