Fiction is asking us as readers to put ourselves in the shoes of another person, and I think one could argue that there is no non-fiction that does that… Literary fiction tends to work your brain out the best and that's because literary fiction is asking you to think in ways that tend to be more complicated than genre fiction… Literary fiction asks us to think about things in ways that are far more difficult and perhaps more outside of our day-to-day understanding… What fiction does is ask us to keep an open mind for the course of an entire book, which is actually a really long time when you think about it.
'Reading fiction may have more benefits than you realise, particularly in the workplace' This Working Life [ABC Podcast, 11 January 2024]
Use the link below to read the full article published on the website of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-11/how-reading-can-benefit-your-career/103249632
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