Why Reading Fiction Will Change The Way You Think

[@SebastianPirie]

👋🏼 Hi guys, hope this video gave you some motivation to pick up a new book! 📚 After spending hours looking through the scientific evidence, I'm convinced that fiction is more than just an interesting story or fancy vocabulary. Compelling novels get us to think about the world from a fresh perspective, and if you have any recommendations, please comment them down below! Keep safe and healthy, and I'll see you next week! ✌🏼

[@siddhishah2222]

I read this book just some while ago.. it's a thriller, a good one at that. The name is "The passenger" by Lisa Lutz. It's a real cool read tbh.

[@hermelain022gmail]

I read "someone like you" and "you were my crush" by durjoy datta.. Read it it's pretty good

[@aryaa7028]

I love the book Circe by Madeline Miller, it's a greek myth retold from a brilliant new perspective, and written quite beautifully. The same author has also written Song of Achilles which is a book that...haunted me for quite some time. Both are worth the read!

[@veryconfused9768]

thank you, i like reading fiction but always felt guilty as everyone says read real life stories or subjects. reallly thank you.

[@juniorqindes8335]

Keep the word “scientific” out of your mouth. This is corrilation not causation. I can just as easily use this argument for the “video games and tv make you violent” point.

[@mateoignaciomontanocatacor8786]

"Use what you learned from another world, so that you can make yours a better place" -quote invented by me as that's how I see good fiction stories

[@seashells0]

i love this quote bro, you're so inspirational frr :)

[@anupamsingh1056]

That was deep. Really liked the way you interpreted this.

[@ShiftyTrillx]

🙌🏿🔥

[@batatahigh382]

"Use what you learned from another world, so that you can make yours a better place" ~38 MONTAÑO CATACORA Mateo Ignacio

[@indviduation]

Give me an example of how fiction solved a personal problem?

[@ayaelallam2696]

Ohh thank you a lot for the inspirational video😍😍🙏🏽🙏🏽I would try to challenge me too. Greetings from Barcelonaa🌸🌸🌸 I cant wait to watch the next video🙆🏻‍♀️🙆🏻‍♀️

[@johls5894]

Somehow, even just listening to you motivates me a lot. So much so that when I do school works, I sometimes just play your vids on the background as though you're my subconscious egging me on to finish my tasks lol. this was amazing content as always, Sebastian!! thanks a lot

[@toothologygirl6935]

I really love your content, It's amazing how on youtube you could stumble on people from different parts of the world, (also your channel was one of the channels that inspired me to start my own). Keep it up :D

[@MoamalMS]

I like reading and writing, for now i write a short story "four hours to Explosion", i start writing because i believe i can show many different places and characters and storys for readers.

[@NicholasLashway]

Great video! Love the editing

[@57.lalkrishna40]

Hey Seb, I just started the habit of reading when I saw your Instagram post of holding 3 books in a lib, that somehow made me think that ' If I'm motivated by a post when I complete the task and upload same way can motivate someone else' Now I completed 2 books but it's not completely fictional and if you are interested go on 1. The Monk Who sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma 2. Atomic Habits by James Clear Btw, thank you for your post :) Stay sharp

[@Hind-t4m]

I rly liked how you described this

[@bluemacaroons]

I highly doubt I’d outperform anyone in social tasks, fiction is more of my alternative to society that feels way more comfortable

[@hemapareek1085]

Hey, Sebastian please make a video about MCAT

[@arishlevi318]

I thought I was the only one !

[@C77K77]

I read thrillers on mass market paperbacks only. These novels you suggested are of different genre. I would like to try. Is there any super hit novels in this genre which sold in millions like the thriller novels⁉️

[@laika1290]

I'm excited to read more fiction books after a month of reading scientific articles lol.

[@SebastianPirie]

That will be a very pleasant change 😅

[@peachysoulstudy]

❤❤❤

[@Nosh2980]

all I can focus on is that cute penguin behind him

[@calliemacedo]

i MOSTLY read fiction but my best friend doesn't at all and i'm sick and tired of waiting for him to read the books i KNOW he'd like and learn a lot from so i'm watching this to send to him

[@osonhodeleon]

Quality novels makes you a more smarter person.

[@shaheerhassan6066]

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.” ― G.K. Chesterton

[@DeidreaDeWitt]

"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it." - Lloyd Alexander, the author of THE BLACK CAULDRON

[@hobbitonman]

That's a great quote! I enjoy Tolkien's response to the "escape" mentality in his essay On Fairy Stories. He says it is escape but not in the form of someone shirking responsibility but as a person who has been unjustly imprisoned and seeking desperately to escape the 4 walls they are confined in.

[@PeteS_1994]

Exactly i don’t read too much fiction but some fiction i have read is so close to reality that i have had to wonder if the book was based on the authors life but not accurate. In a sense that makes it more true or relatable than some non fiction bonds I’ve read.

[@yourroyalhighness6297]

One way of describing fiction is "the escape from reality".

[@smrpkrl]

which everyone in this hectic world wants

[@ken4975]

@@smrpkrl Not everyone. Some are looking for the reality behind a world of fiction.

[@ricardoislasruiz3186]

I would rather say that it is a way to learn from different realities

[@meanmuggin0384]

this

[@sms1511]

Its not always escapism, fiction has changed the history of some nations like Uleysses and Kafka’s The trial or Metamorphsis or many classics that changed society. Before Dickens wrote about the devastating circumstances in the poor houses and children working in the industrial revolution the society in the UK especially industrialists did not empathise with the workers. Child labour laws was introduced afterwards to protect children working in factories.

[@ahakeemmabof258]

I read fiction mostly to escape reality it's always a little heaven to me, started at a very young age got into trouble then in the school😄 because I do read them every free time instead of reading school works. It's makes me know more about world around me and love how it's makes one see world from other people perspective 🥰🥰

[@shankarniware979]

Hey brother, Your study with me session's are helping me a lot... Will you please take these sessions 2-3 times a week.. so that studying will also be my habit..🤭 Thank you so much, for everything..🤩 Regards from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@Ariel_is_a_dreamer]

I like when books describe things in detail (How the walls looked like, what kid of flowers were in the vase, what kid of furniture was in the room, etc) idk it just makes me feel more present. It makes me appreciate the little things around me. I love poetry. I also like philosophy, and every character has their own in a way.

[@bmasters1981]

And that's why the Murder, She Wrote books "written" by Jessica Fletcher, et al. have been winners with me-- that active senior-citizen mystery writer has been very descriptive about everything relating to everywhere she's been in her books (Moscow, Paris, San Francisco, Miami, Washington, D.C., and so on).

[@RenataPamplona]

I've been a fiction reader my whole life so watching you Discover this world is awesome. Totally gonna follow you on Goodreads

[@lilydelacour]

As a English Literature student I totally agree with what you say. I think you can learn so much from books, and especially fictional ones. :-) Just out of interest I have a short question: Most of the time when I talk to guys at my university and we talk about books I realize that they only, or at least most of the time, read non-fiction books. When I talk to women it‘s often the opposite. As I said, it‘s only based on my personal experience. But do some of you noticed something similar? :-) Also when I see KZbinrs uploading videos like „Why you should read more fiction“ or „Why I started reading more fiction and not only non-fiction anymore“ it‘s mostly men.🙈 My brother is actually one of the few men I know who enjoys reading fiction much more compared to non-fiction books. (Not as if I‘m judging that one is better than the other one obviously. There are just different. And I was just curious.) 😅

[@snowbird7254]

thats an interesting observation! my brother also reads fiction instead of non-fiction (when he reads that is lol)

[@CynthiaCho]

Sebastian is such an inspiration not just for aspiring medical students but in general. Thank you for always giving us such encouraging and engaging content! ❤️

[@SebastianPirie]

Awww thanks Cynthia, you've made my day 😊

[@adamkenny28]

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[@ayeshakhan4426]

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[@ioftendontreplybacktoidiot5251]

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[@sohanmaji4381]

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth - Albert Camus 🌼

[@strykeplaysmcjohnpickhypix1205]

Nonfiction good for logical improvements, fiction good for emotional improvements

[@kordellfarmer9706]

Boss way of putting it good sir

[@victorwall3027]

Do you know brazilian literature? If you are interested, read Posthumous Memories of Bras Cuba of Machado de Assis (bigger brazilian writer). It's so good fiction and was published to 'Penguin Books' for the english-speaking countries. ✨

[@MargaritaMagdalena]

I used to dislike fiction until I was 28, then I decided to start reading it again and now I love it. Maybe disliking fiction is an adolescent thing.

[@roshnisharma4324]

The only friends i have, are characters from books.

[@sheneltyortiz7772]

This is sooo amazing!! I try to explain this to my folks since they believe that I’m “wasting” my time by reading fiction and should stick to non-fiction but I try to explain that it’s way more! They just don’t get it :/

[@koalaTtime]

STEM guy admits literature is good for 8 minutes

[@dianepolk9878]

The Bible is the most important book for all mankind to read containing the voice of our creator, His love for His creation and our eternal instructions. I pray everyone reads it and puts their faith in Jesus Christ.

[@yahuahlove9447]

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[@versus3780]

Hearing him say " a Medical Student from Australia " always gets me .. Excellent work , Keep going Sebastian !

[@krowkovtuber]

wait… are you a unimelb student? that university shot looks… familiar 😳

[@cheapthrills2815]

The fact that you read ''The Fault in Our Stars'' makes me so happy

[@niyatig974]

Fiction books are a beautiful escape from reality. Also, I've been following your reading journey on goodreads and it's inspired me to read a lot more than what I already do.

[@SebastianPirie]

That's it! Keen to smash out more reading with you #goodreadssquad👏🏼

[@agustinamei6691]

Literature is an art. I have the opposite struggle: I can not read non fiction... I recommend you to read Stefan Zweig's books. He is one of the greatest writers ever.

[@kordellfarmer9706]

Who is that? And which book u recommend

[@turtlerabbit2692]

I mostly read non-fiction books, however Sebastian’s video make me want to read more fiction. Great vid as always Sebastian!

[@SebastianPirie]

Yay! Keep us updated on what fiction books you pick up 📚

[@charleshayden7408]

yeah fiction is my favorite

[@laks.4057]

Oh my. How much I love him😭 (Especially more after he mentioned those quotes for the novels)❤

[@SebastianPirie]

I absolutely love the White Fang quote 👌🏼

[@timiahvather2511]

When his intro is the literal reason I read fiction... Because I relate to the characters and they give me new outlook

[@AristophanesNow]

Reading an honest author of fiction is the most truth and reality you’ll experience. Reading Orwell, Dostoevsky, Steinbeck is more truthful than the New York Times.

[@gaurilekshmi1810]

You're an inspiration in so many ways! I love that you talk about the importance of personal development and recreation along with academics. Keep it up! ❤

[@SebastianPirie]

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@philomenayap367]

I love that you give a scientific perspective to fiction reading. Now I have receipts to show cocky non-fiction and non-readers HAHAHAHAHAH Noted your book recos :) Keep us posted!

[@SebastianPirie]

That's right! You can show them the evidence 😁

[@philomenayap367]

@@SebastianPirie cheeky! I saw your old message 😏 "😂😂😂" is good too. I like to think my comment was pretty funny JK JK AHAHAHAHAHA

[@arcadealchemist]

Read idealist fiction carefully 😅 to many millenials took 1984 as an instruction manual for political change 😅

[@Rose_19911]

thank you for this video mate, I too am trying to get into fiction & really feel i’m getting somewhere finally

[@micah5277]

WE BROKE GODS LAW. 2000 YEARS AGO, GOD PROVIDED A SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST WHO SUFFERED AND TOOK OUR PUNISHMENT ON THE CROSS. THE BIBLE SAYS IF WE DECLARE WITH OUT MOUTH JESUS IS LORD AND BELIEVE IN OUR HEART GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD YOU SHALL BE SAVED. Romans 10-9. GOD WILL FORGIVE YOUR SINS AND GRANT YOU EVERLASTING LIFE ALL BECAUSE OF WHAT JESUS DID ON THE CROSS

[@indviduation]

Reading about people who don't exist, in scripted events, where the conclusion known before the book is finished is a waste of time. Why read fiction when you can real history of real events that effected real people.

[@vojajin6686]

Beta self help book reader explains why you should read fiction (honestly this video is a question that isn't even worth asking)

[@leeeunyoung5030]

In a way that im convincing myself to write a fiction not through by knowledge but in a way to focus more in emotions. Also, I want to convey the millenals and the old ones they need to move on to help them realize the importance of both fiction or not.

[@Christina-kc4fw]

Such a great opening! I had a similar experience! I come from a scientific background and used to only read non fiction! I was missing out so much! Thanks for making this video!!

[@cmondya4919]

Nice video !

[@bookauthor5676]

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[@eafj90]

I love reading! I haven’t had much time for my own reading during semester, but am looking forward to reading more over summer when this semester is over. Requested to follow you on Goodreads 👍🏼

[@ascia158]

for the last 10 years of my life most of my readings was nonfiction because some how i felt guilty of reading fiction but now i believe that fiction books is actuly as good as nonfiction books ..even better .i've always liked reading fiction but i used to read only rommance novels. last year i decided to read thriler novels and i liked all the books i read. the problem with me is that i stick too long reading one genre and i am afraid to explore things. i am really struggling this year to read because of social media and all that. but this year 2022 i'll be better manging my reading time and put it as a priority.

[@strongindependentblackwoma1887]

Are all "fictions" novels? All novels are fiction of course.

[@ikramsakoura3750]

Sebastian, I follow you from the Arabs and I love you very much 💚✌Please put the Arabic translation in order to understand you well, as I am not fluent in English 😔🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@djihanemel3600]

Yes please put the arabic translation 👍👍👍👍💙💙🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@amelmel6845]

Yes, put the arabic translation 👍👍👍

[@_rksvab4302]

Recommend Five Feet Apart!🙈 and thank you for your sharing🙆🏻‍♀️

[@SebastianPirie]

Thanks for the suggestion! Adding it to my reading list now :)

[@diyalectic52]

Every genre in fiction offers something different for everyone too. Falling in love with different genres gets you to appreciate how complex we are and makes you realize that in almost every facet of life it takes way more than you'd originally think to understand a situation or someone before you make a conclusion. Stories helps me to explore the somewhat darker side of society and individual personalities (thrillers like Gone Girl, We Need to Talk About Kevin), helps me to recognize more of my own values and bringing it more cohesively to the fore (Brave New World, The Fault in Our Stars), or helps me to see people afflicted by trauma, abuse, addiction or loss embark on the journey of healing, all the ways it impacts their lives and the layers of their life they address on their journey, and that the pain, their trauma, their childhood, their addiction doesn't, define the character.

[@马化腾-p1e]

It seems I heard you mentioned The brave new world. There is an adult TV series, I read the book due to the TV series.

[@马化腾-p1e]

My actual feeling about the book -- a lot of nonsense :D -- I keep reading it for it making me sleepy quick. The sentences are old and hard for non-native speakers.

[@jehanirfan5175]

I love this!! Always felt a bit sillier than my friends who were reading enlightening self-help books or educational memoirs of events and people in comparison, but there's really nothing like a good story! Starting medical school this year and just found your channel, awesome vid and I've subscribed! ❤️

[@kap849]

And I wanted to look smarter than those silly people who read fiction. I read my first fiction that I truly enjoyed two weeks ago and I have purchased a bunch of fiction books since. I feel like I have so much to catch up on with fiction books and I wish I had started earlier!

[@simranchauhan9390]

Assignments, exams and homework, just school in general, is really taking a lot of my time and mental space away. At this point I really wish I catch fever or cold or something so that I can relax and enjoy reading in my bed. Sigh

[@axb.h49]

You have unbelievable editing skills... keep going man

[@SebastianPirie]

Thanks!!!

[@simplelee92]

I follow these channels to guide me on what to read next.

[@morganbrooksfield1575]

Me, an avid fantasy reader, who has read maybe two nonfictions: mhm yes precisely I should read more fiction

[@Ogham]

"More than just a story"... like, why do people think we've told stories literally since we developed as a species?

[@TrinxOD]

I really enjoyed this video. Recently, I've been getting back into reading after being in a slump during quarantine and the first book that I picked up was fiction. It reminded me why I enjoyed reading.

[@rukky.sshonubi4797]

Omg! I hit a jackpot discovering this channel🥰🥰🥰

[@medgizem7982]

Loved this video! We read Brave New World in school during our English courses. Definitely have to read Where the crawdads sing, it has been on my reading log for a looong time now 😅

[@awenisvlogging3194]

I always admired the characters personalities and try to understand why they're behaving that way.

[@youssefamr6223]

So how many pages do u read in a day? By the way your videos are amazing.

[@nuttzack6973]

I didn't have any books only the Bible I only read that, now I really have to go and get some books.

[@thiagooliveira6993]

Thank you so mach. I from Brazil .🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@StudyOle]

Literature!

[@raiden1606]

I love fantasy! It's awesome. Have you read mistborn era one? One of the best fantasy series in my opinion. It's the series that made me fall in love with fantasy.

[@rika8285]

IS THAT A BIG PENGUIN ON UR BED ?? WHERE DID U GET IT

[@Eu_Odeio_Escola]

Wauuu, you are my inspiration. I'm a medical student form Mozambique in Africa. I'm really think about open a channel on KZbin to talk about books I read. YOU ARE MY INSPIRATION. Youhave a big fan😍

[@ikramsakoura3750]

I love your channel 💚💚💚

[@pikachuchu1234]

I love Where The Crawdads Sing! Glad to see others appreciating it :) Keep up the great content! 🙏

[@SebastianPirie]

It was an amazing read 🍃

[@Anjalisingh-gr6ir]

Thank you so much...I wanted something like this😃

[@djihanemel3600]

A love your vidéos 💙💙🤩🤩

[@sumathinatarajan8408]

I like that he goes through the comments and likes them.

[@Janhavi_Jadhav]

When you Are already into FICTION😋😋

[@SebastianPirie]

Ahead of the game 👌🏼

[@itsok4299]

Why is there no translation into Arabic?🥺💔

[@nikkivenable3700]

Reading fiction makes one more empathetic.

[@nhuinh633]

Your voice 's so smooth...aww What do you do?

[@ShellYoung]

No. Shut up.

[@amelmel6845]

I love your channel 💓💓💓

[@caroleross1500]

Thank you so much for your video. I read Brave New World when I was in my twenties ( I'm 49 now) . I barely remember it but thanks to your video I think I will reread it. I also have "where the crawdads sings lying on my bookshelf for the past year. That will be my next book to read as soon as I finish the one I'm reading. A book i will highly recommend is the kite runner by Khaled Hosseini. A beautiful and moving story about a frienship between two boys in Afghanistan in the seventies. It gots everything : frienship,Afgan culture, racism, religion, the consequences of war, but also love and forgiveness. That books really tore me apart emotionally! Thanks for the video again and good luck with your study !

[@gracegracegraceee]

Omg thank you for this video Sebastian,the editing was amazing ,I hope you make more videos about books. 💙💙

[@theseuslim3666]

omg i have that penguin

[@RonaldBradycptgmpy]

So like if anyone is still watching this video and commenting let me know if I’m only person… I have a lot of difficulty reading fiction, not because I don’t think it’s valuable. But it’s because I write my own stuff, so when I read someone else’s writing, I’m not really reading it the same way most other people who enjoy fiction are reading. I’m doing that well at the same time thinking about things like style, narrative structure, plot points, etc. all of this really gets in my way. Plus, the benefit that most people get from reading fiction, I already do with the actual stories of the people in my wife, so I don’t really feel as though I benefit from it nearly as much. I kind of want to turn that off when I read fiction, but I haven’t been able to. I’m not saying that I haven’t read any fiction LOL but it’s about 5% of the books I read every year, the vast majority being nonfiction. I’ve been trying to get it more toward 50-50, but it’s been extremely difficult

[@charleshayden7408]

God bless you man

[@kingtigerbooks1162]

Open a book and get transported to another world. Close it to return home. These are my 3 favorite books: - The Texas-Israeli War:1999 - The StarKing by Jack Vance - Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson

[@playingindies6730]

Hi

[@raghaabhinayam4022]

I recently discovered you and can I please say how hopelessly in love I’m with you and your videos?! I’m grateful

[@robailamjad4237]

Hlo. I am also medical student of first year (2nd semster) . I wants to change medical university .please guide me. Which university is best for me. Our cousre is 5 years mmbs in Kyrgyzstan . Plz guide about procedure and douments