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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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