Nonfiction
topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
4 statements about Nonfiction, every show
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.”
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.”