>Fiction is the same to me, yes it came from a real context, but it's still a work of fiction and doesn't teach you anything about real life. And what is ficti

>Fiction is the same to me, yes it came from a real context, but it's still a work of fiction and doesn't teach you anything about real life. And what is fiction based on, if not real life? Fiction is the number one way to learn how to see the world from the point of view of a completely different person, only in fiction can you leave your own shoes. I'm pretty sure that reading fiction makes you a better person, and it's proven that reading fiction improves a person's empathy [1]. Increased empathy means that you can put yourself into other leaders' heads and guess what made them make their decisions, thereby learning how the world works. And yes, you can learn about dating from a romance novel, except that about 99% of them are not about real life. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/oct/08/literary-fiction-improves-empathy-study http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/oct/08/liter...