Essay on How Cooking Hobby Influences Personality Development

This essay examines the impact of a cooking hobby on personality development. The author, a student, discusses how taking up cooking has led to increased peace, reduced anxiety, and improved social skills. The essay highlights the development of confidence, self-esteem, and organizational abilities. The author also discusses how cooking has enriched their reading and analytical skills, broadened their perspective, and strengthened family bonds. The essay concludes that hobbies play a crucial role in personal development by fostering various skills and making individuals better people. The essay uses several references to support the claims made throughout the document.

Running head: HOBBY
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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Title: Hobby as a personality developer
Thesis statement
This essay aims to find the impact of my chosen hobby on my personality development.
Introduction
Hobbies can be defined as an activity undertaken by a person in order to achieve pleasure
or peace. People keep hobbies as a means of entertainment and relaxation. Hobbies are of
various kinds like reading, outdoor activities, cooking and others. My favorite hobby is cooking.
In this essay, I will be discussing how my favorite hobby has brought about various changes in
me and helped me to develop as an individual.
Main body
Cooking is often considered to be an art. Cooking has helped me to attain peace. Before I
undertook this hobby, I was extremely restless and anxious (Hartel, 2014). After undertaking the
hobby, I have become a more peaceful person. This aura has helped me to be more patient and
apply my capability to other tasks which I tend to undertake. I have been able to read more
books, meet new people in the cooking classes I attend and grow as a person. I have more things
to talk about and that enables me to become a better individual socially. Cooking has also helped
me to develop my confidence and boost my self esteem. Szabo (2013) suggests that if we really
enjoy an activity, not only are we able to perform well in the given scenario but also become
more confident about the way we are dealing with life. Through cooking, I have been able to
enjoy myself and this enjoyment has paved its way to a new confidence factor in me.

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Cooking has also helped me to become more organized. This is because cooking is a task
which requires a person to prepare extensively for the given dish which will be prepared. Hence,
one needs to be extremely prepared with all the given dishes and ingredients in order to cook.
Becoming more organized has helped me in various other spheres as well. It has helped me to
become more organized in other fields such as my academics and my social life as well. Through
cooking, I have been reading a wide range of books which has made my reading as well as
analyzing skills better. According to Wolfson et al., (2016), cooking enriches life and helps a
person to gain certain perspective on various things. Cooking can expose a person to a realm of
creativity where the person is open to various new ideas and new ways of perceiving life.
Through the new outlook, I believe I have become more reasonable and take other`s views as
well before performing any task.
Earlier, when I had not taken up the hobby of cooking, I used to waste my time watching
television or sleeping and loitering around. However, after taking up cooking I have started
spending less time in activities that are not fruitful or any other bad habits. This is because
cooking provides me a sense of fulfillment which then enables me spends quality time on useful
things. I was not very fond of my family earlier; however, through cooking I meet there more
often and get them new dishes which I have been trying at my place for some time (Angier,
2014). This has helped me to strengthen my bond with my family members and has helped me to
realize the true values that are critical in life.
Conclusion
Therefore, a hobby is often considered to be a critical aspect of life. Every individual
should have a hobby as it is the hobby which helps an individual to develop his personality by

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various aspects of the activity undertaken and makes a person become a better individual and
prosper.

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References
Angier, B. (2014). Gourmet Cooking for Free. Willow Creek Press.
Hartel, J. (2014). An interdisciplinary platform for information behavior research in the liberal
arts hobby. Journal of Documentation, 70(5), 945-962.
Szabo, M. (2013). Foodwork or foodplay? Men’s domestic cooking, privilege and
leisure. Sociology, 47(4), 623-638.
Wolfson, J. A., Bleich, S. N., Smith, K. C., & Frattaroli, S. (2016). What does cooking mean to
you?: Perceptions of cooking and factors related to cooking behavior. Appetite, 97, 146-
154.