5 ways that reading fiction can help us learn more about ourselves and grow as people
Exiting our self-narratives and simulating others’ mental states is behind the mechanism of fiction’s transformational powers.As a psychologist who studiesOur optimal state is that of continuous growth
Isn’t it why we pledge to follow our protagonists across continents and centuries, to fall and to triumph with them, to love, to grieve, to learn alongside them?inside us has been stirred. It could just be a quiver, like a spattering of dancing snowflakes in a snow-globe. It could also be a blizzard. This shake-up, whatever form it takes, is an integral component of fiction’s transformational powers.
According to Djikic, the mechanism behind the transformational potential of fiction involves a two-step process: an exit and a simulation.
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