Re: Fiction or non-fiction?
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I vote fiction and its not close. Reading fiction is one of life's great pleasures and incredibly useful in helping us learn about life without trial and error. Non-fiction is essentially (though not necessarily) trivial and can be learnt or looked up later.
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100% agree. For the vast majority of human beings, it is much easier to learn important lessons through fiction. This is how humans have learned things throughout history and there is good empirical support that people learn and remember things better when placed into a fictional narrative. If I give you a list of ten nouns to try and remember, and I give OP a list of ten nouns and a story that works all ten into it, he is going to crush you on the test at the end.
I read more non-fiction than fiction (probably like 70/30) now, but fiction is still much more important, imo.
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