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If you can't stand reading non-fiction, read "literature" quality fiction. High quality fiction conveys deep concepts through narrative. You can put yourself in the minds of others and experience different ways of reasoning, communicating, and being. For example, you could read "Homage to Catalonia" by Orwell (non-fiction experience during the Spanish civil war) or "Animal Farm" by Orwell (short fictional allegory) and come away with some of the same ideas the author has reached regarding power dynamics. One is lived experience, another is the distillate of the same, perhaps. Of course, reading both is best, but this is just an example. Personally, I find fiction a less efficient protocol, but there are many cases where it is more profound, more impactful, and more impressive a learning tool than non-fiction, particularly as concerns the more elusive and esoteric.


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