The pleasure lies in a certain special way of using one’s mind. Stamp collecting is a hobby for busy, purposeful, ambitious people – because, in patterns, it has the essential elements of a career, but transposed to a clearly delimited, intensely private world…. A career requires the ability to sustain a purpose over a long period of time, through many separate steps, choices, decisions, adding up to a steady progression to a goal…. Purposeful people cannot rest by doing nothing…. They seldom find pleasure in single occasions, such as a party or a show or even a vacation, a pleasure that ends right then and there, with no further consequences.
The minds of such people require
continuity, integration, a sense of moving forward. They are accustomed to
working long-range…. Yet they need relaxation and rest from their constant,
single-tracked drive. What they need is another track, but for the same train –
that is, a change of subject, but using part of the same method of mental
functioning. Stamp collecting fulfills that need….
Ayn Rand on Stamp Collecting: (From “WHY I LIKE STAMP COLLECTING”)
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