The most popular hobbies in Britain are currently reading, cooking and travelling, with gardening, video gaming and pets close behind.
But there is one hobby that you will search for in vain among the statistics - and yet it is arguably the fastest growing and most surprising pastime of all.
That pastime is thinking.
Thinking is obviously something we all do all the time, so how can it qualify as a hobby? But this is a new phenomenon, at least for the wider public - the activity of recreational thinking.
We are supposedly living in a dumbed-down society - and brief exposure to almost any terrestrial TV channel or tabloid newspaper will reinforce that prejudice. Yet at the same time we are witnessing a popular intellectual renaissance, particularly on the live circuit, which is unprecedented.
Last week alone I attended a live event with the Canadian social psychologist John Vervaeke at the Unherd Club in Westminster, and an online talk between David Baddiel and the philosopher John Gray organised by the How To Academy. In the past month or so, I have attended talks by Paul Kingsnorth, Kenan Malik, Tomiwa Owalade, Ian McGilchrist and Bret Easton Ellis. Perhaps I am an outlier, but the number of organisations now dedicated to satisfying intellectual hunger is significant. The School of Life, the Academy of Ideas, the Idler Academy and the How the Light Gets In festival are some more of the very popular actors in the field. Ted Talks was a fore-runner in the genre and YouTube the go-to online platform for those seeking a place for ideas to be discussed at length.
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