I was listening to a self help book about bad habits and it keeps going on about video games=time waste, don't do it. Honestly that's bullshit and I'm sick of that viewpoint. What if that's what I like to do in my down time to relax? Why is playing video games a bad habit but watching a movie isn't?
Their point might have been to do something constructive. To get a skill out of it you can use to provide for yourself if need be.
So they're probably thinking of carpentry, pottery, gardening or other vocational hobbies....
My experience with stressors is that they are relative, and they scale to fit the available worry. I'm stressed about work, but from personal experience I have been just as stressed about being unemployed or about school. Therefore the stress is the common thing - if it is common then adjusting to the stress is more productive than avoiding the stresses.
Hence meditation, exercise, meaningful relationships, etc.