Do you go through Phases of interest?

Yeah up to a point. I tend to have an addictive personality.

For a while it was Football Manager PC game and i could lose hours on it. Then it was clothes and all my spare cash went on designer brands. I had a car spell too when i was pimping up a car that had no business being touched.

I think its something you grow out of though (not meaning that as patronising), you learn to allocate time to a variety of things.

My killing phase has yet to be discovered though....................
 
ANONANON said:
Do you go through phases of interest? I don't know if it's just me, but i can only concentrate on 1 'phase' at a time. Mine are gym, doing the house up, gaming and cars.

One month, i'll be totally obsessed with gaming, then Gym, then cars, then doing things around the house. Whilst i'm in a phase, i have no interest in the other phases at all. Can't be arsed reading up or learning about any of the other phases until i get bored and move on to the next.

Example, i was well into doing gym stuff. Reading up on nutrition, learning exercises, spending loads of time trawling bodybuilding forums, buying gym equipment spending days, weeks at a time doing it, then rinse and repeat with the other phases and not showing any interest in bodybuilding what so ever.

At the moment, i'm in a gaming phase. Spending way to much time reading the pc games section, watching reviews and playing games. I really want to get back into the bodybuilding phase, but the gaming phase is just to addictive to pull away at the moment.

Do any of you do the same?
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Ha! you could be talking about me there. My girlfriend gets sick of it.

On a positive side I've become a 'jack of all trades, master of none' with, guitar,decks,gaming,cars,motorbikes etc... :-)

Its quite interesting behaviour when you think about it :eek:
 
Yep, I go through phases of interest also and I can relate to all the things you mentioned. The only thing I'd add to the list is musical instruments.

Women have a habit of messing up my rhythm though. They seem to force my interests to the back seat.
 
101001101 said:
Absolutely, I am one of those 100% or nothing kind of people, I have to juggle it but its either all out or nothing.
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Yep, this! All or nothing. I'm either No.1 on a CS:S server, or simply the biggest Smashing Pumpkins fan eva! Doesn't really matter what it is, as long as i know more at that time than every other pretender to the throne at that particular time! :D
 
WOW!, So i'm not the only one.

I am murder for this type of behaviour. If you go through my web history you will probably see a strong element of a certain subject each week.

It's like a constant cycle of interests. Photography, audio production, growing my own veg, PC hardware....it's never ending.

The only problem being is that these phases usually end up costing me money I don't have :mad:
 
This is me in a nutshell. I never actually 'finish' anything. I'll be really engrossed in something, but a couple months later I'll leave it - probably not 'concluded' - and start something else. I tend to cycle around console gaming, pc gaming, cars, keeping fit and my motorbike.

I get bored quickly lol!
 
Yes I always have to have a project on the go. The last one was setting up a saltwater marine fishtank to have a couple of seahorses in, they've had babies so my next project is trying to raise the babies (still looking after the adult seahorses obviously).
 
Absolutely. I think it's a general human thing.

For me it's very quick - usually in the range of a few days, up to possibly a week or two.
 
Not really, I mix gaming, football, reading, TV, music, socialising etc rather than focussing on anything in particular for extended periods of time and then moving on to the next. Obviously some will dominate from time to time but I'd say my hobbies are definitely not mutually exclusive. As an example I am in the middle of watching some TV series, reading a book, playing a game, listening to/buying albums, going to football on Sunday, visiting friends next weekend. Don't get me wrong I could live with doing just one or two of these things, I don't have a short attention span or anything like that, but it doesn't tend to work out that way.

I do on occasion have 'mini-phases' but these are more like crazes, say playing Nintendo Wii for a couple of months, ordering a raft of CDs, playing a particular game or type of game.

I'm actually somewhat surprised to see so many posts sharing the same experience as you.

I know people who do though, in particular in terms of gaming, people who will throw themselves heavily into a particular game say 50 hours a week and then all of a sudden drop it and start hitting the gym, or playing a different game.
 
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