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#486: How to Get Better at Making Life-Changing Decisions

The Art of Manliness

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Is There a Difference Between Fiction and Narrative?

In a novel, I think a novel can do that even in some ways better because it gives you access to the interior life of a character. When we run these kind of simulations of other people's lives, and particularly when we can see into the kind of inner monologue that people have when they're making a complicated choice, those simulations just that it's almost like going to the gym, right?

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