Reading fiction books are better than reading non-fiction books |
As our society moves towards the Information society, the importance of creative thinking is more important than it has ever been. That is because our society demands creative information which is helpful in dominating the competition. Both the fiction and non-fiction stories are beneficial to us, but I think non-fiction stories, which are more realistic, would be more helpful to us because it resembles our lives meticulously and it prevents us from thinking in an unrealistic method.
To begin with, non-fiction stories sharply deal with the reality, whereas fiction stories change the reality to make the stories more interesting. In other words, we can apply the knowledge we learned from the book to the reality more easily when we read the real stories. However, non-fiction stories are too different from reality to be compared with the real environment. Actually, most of the people including me like fiction books more because it's easier and more interesting to read. However, from my experience, most of the important lessons about life were learned in the non-fiction book because it was easier for me to activate my knowledge in reality.
In addition, reading fiction stories may lead to un realistic thinking. One may say, if a person considers the reality in an unrealistic way, he can be corrected. However, it is the most difficult thing to change someone's thinking. Many of my friends enjoy reading books which deal with fantacy. Although their language ability exceled others, their view of the society and their way of solving a problem was different from others but it was far from being creative. Some of them realized how dangerous their thinkings were and started reading fiction books. Later, when their odd way of thinking was combined with the reality, they had the most creative notion. From my experience, I would say that reading non-fictions can morphose the unrealistic people's minds into being realistic.
To sum up, I prefer reading non-fiction books to reading unrealistic stories because non-fiction books give more important lessons which can be applied in the reality more easily, and it can change the unrealistic notion into being realistic. I admit that fiction books still have many advantages because creativity comes from the flip of normal thinking. However, what I'm trying to say is the creativity alienated from reality is useless. Therefore, to earn the creativiy based on the reality, we should read real stories. I think it would be the best to read books, composed mainly of non-fiction, but mixed with a little bit of fiction. |