Read Self-Help ❌ Read Fiction ✅
After reading 41 self-help books and 3 fiction, I concluded that to develop vocabulary, storytelling, and writing skills, fiction is a way to go.
🗣️ He doesn’t know what he is talking about
But hear me out.
I have spent the past 3 years reading self-help books.
Business, NeuroScience, Psychology, Marketing. Atomic Habits, Sapiens; you name it.
I have read it, not once but multiple times.
Imagine This
The more stories, the more you will learn to tell your stories (without even realizing it).
Self-help is effective too, but it doesn’t have as many stories as Fiction.
The author of the fiction uses exciting words to describe the feelings and situations of the character. The reader doesn’t even realize that he’s learning new words.
He is so engaged in the stories. Every story he reads; he lives them in his mind as a character. He feels what the character feels.
Believe it or not, the mind doesn’t distinguish between imagination and reality. It is as if you are living the life of a character. You have gained the experience of a character.
