Nectar of Time's mission: read fiction alongside non-fiction for growth rather than only optimization-driven self-help.
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Reading fiction pulls you down from something, and it grants you more time for reflection and more time to try other things.
- Non-fiction instructs, fiction calms
Non-fiction hands you guides to follow; fiction calms you, lifts you out of your bubble, and opens perspectives and sparks that daily life never would.
- Optimization alone flattens you
Reading only to optimize and grow makes you efficient but personality-less; you miss a whole other side of the world.
If you're just optimizing all the time, you're going to become really efficient and you're going to have no personality.
- Read fiction alongside non-fiction
Keep a hybrid reading diet: pair self-improvement non-fiction with fiction for perspective, reflection and imagination.
Reading fiction opens you more perspective than someone who talks about daily life only, because we're all living in our own world, in our own bubble.