Fiction
topic on 4 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
the Knowledge Project 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 
20VC
6 statements about Fiction, every show
Sunak: Fiction teaches human understanding better than non-fiction reading
“If you spend most of your life doing what I do, which is reading for purpose, right? What's the actionable takeaway from what I'm reading? You know about what to do and how to do it. You're probably less good at understanding the why. And as Lakshad was talkin…”
Ferriss: Fiction often conveys truths more effectively than non-fiction
“I think you can actually absorb and remember truths from fiction much more effectively than you can from nonfiction oftentimes.”
Lacy: Empathy from Reading Fiction Is a Major Career Advantage
“There are so many studies that show that reading fiction, especially for people, anyone building a consumer product, trying to sell to people, trying to understand the empathy that you gain from that is absolutely a career advantage.”
Konnikova argues fiction and poetry teach distinct lessons absent from nonfiction
“I'm a huge, huge believer that everyone should be reading fiction and poetry. There are so many people who I really admire who just say, oh, I only read nonfiction because all the other stuff doesn't teach me anything, and I just, I've had this conversation so…”
Gross: Fiction shapes mental models and worldviews more potently than nonfiction
“I actually think fiction has a more potent effect on your mind that's just a little bit harder to track in terms of how you think, mental models, how you kind of view the world.”
Altucher: Read fiction for prose craft and nonfiction for ideas
“High quality nonfiction won't always have the best writing because the writer of high quality nonfiction is usually very good at their ideas or what they're writing about, but high quality fiction will be very good writing, so I learned from both.”