Who, according（使一致） to the author, are fortune（命运）'s favoured（偏袒） children? A gifted American psychologist（心理学家） has said, "Worry is a spasm of the emotion. The mind catches hold（把握） of something and will not let it go." It is useless（ 无用的） to argue with the mind in this condition. The stronger the will, the more futile（无用的） the task. One can only gently（有礼貌地） insinuate something else into its convulsive grasp（抓）. And if something else is rightly（正确地） chosen, if it is really attended by the illumination（照明） of another field of interest, gradually（逐渐地） and often quite swiftly（很快地）, the old undue（过度的） grip（紧握） relaxes and the process of recuperation and repair begins.

  The cultivation（培养） of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of the first importance to a public man. But this is not a business that can be undertaken（从事） in a day or swiftly（很快地） improvised（临时准备） by a mere command of the will. The growth of alternative mental interests is a long process. The seeds must be carefully chosen. They must fall on good ground. They must be sedulously tended if the vivifying fruits are to be at hand when needed.

  To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies.