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  When you read something, you are exploring the mind of someone else and their creation. Not everyone is extroverted, adventure seeking and society exist because of that. 
  If you feel you are wasting time watching shows and you are introverted, why not start small and take a class once a week or play a social sport and ease into it. See if you enjoy it, add something else, go a random trip somewhere close. Build from there
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  Reading fiction is positively associated with increased empathy.
  Fiction helps us understand what it’s like to be someone besides ourselves. You sit down and read a book and your spending a few hours actively imagining what it’s like to be someone else — it’s a workout routine for empathy (as well as your imagination.)
  Movies and TV are enjoyed much more passively and so those benefits are watered down, but are still there.
  I can’t say if at any given moment you would be better off reading fiction than going out in the world and doing whatever. But people should definitely make time in their lives for reading fiction. It makes better people out of us. >
  
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  "A workout routine for empathy." I really like that!   
  As others have pointed out, I was being pretty all-or-nothing here, and of course going out and talking to people is good for building empathy too. But I really like the idea that reading fiction is like little bite-size versions of that. >
  
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