We're not making it up....
Brunch|January 13, 2024
...fiction is really the genre that changes lives. Novels build imagination, boost empathy, make us wiser. Facts can only go so far
Rachel Lopez
We're not making it up....
 

CEOS and their productivity hacks: Rising early, kaizen checklists, blue-sky thinking, endless pivoting. And of course, books - self-help tomes, other CEO's memoirs, marketing bibles strung up by case studies. Fiction? That's a waste of time.

If they only knew. Reading fiction might be the greatest hack, ever, to living a better life. Novels, casually dismissed as stories, pack in facts and truths better than non-fiction can. Take 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner, The Underground Railroad.

Colston Whitehead imagines an alternative history for Black people during slavery in 19th century America. His hero, Cora, makes a daring escape, hoping to find a secret train system, with safe houses and unmarked routes.

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