Finally, pursuing activities unrelated to your work will help you meet interesting people you wouldn’t meet otherwise. It can be easy to get sucked into a particular world if your career is very specialized. If you’re a lawyer, for instance, you will probably spend a lot of time socializing with other lawyers. But engaging yourself in something different will expose you to people outside your profession, which can be refreshing, or even life-changing. I have a friend who used to be a lawyer, but switched to a career in art after spending some time with artists at a local art studio. She had signed up for painting classes as a way to relax after work, and loved the people so much that she was inspired to learn about art and start her own art gallery. In this way, pursuing something unrelated to work enriched her life immensely.