No, not liars, but sometimes inattentive to this aspect of their lives? Wishful thinking? If it's just me, I'll be happy to be wrong. But the irony here is tha

No, not liars, but sometimes inattentive to this aspect of their lives? Wishful thinking? If it's just me, I'll be happy to be wrong. But the irony here is that my day job involves helping people schedule their leisure activity. I've seen research on what people actually do with their time and it's freaking dismal. After college people fall into a rut of work/sleep/TV. People say things like "dinner parties" because that's the last thing they remember doing, but if you probe a bit further, this event is usually months in the past. By "sustained effort" I wanted to distinguish a hobby from mere pass-times like television watching. I think 3 hrs/week is plenty. And tabletop wargaming is an activity that at least exercises the imagination, so I wasn't really talking about people like yourself. It could be argued that the idea of having a hobby is some outmoded bourgeois affectation, an imitation of the Victorian idle rich. So, neither do I want to impose the necessity of having a hobby on anyone else. But I do feel the lack of one in my own life.