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The psychology of fiction with Jennifer Lynn Barnes

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

The Draw to Psychology?

The only way we can have that intimate access where you truly know what it's like to be in someone else's mind is through a story. And so I think that's what's always interested me so much about writing fiction as a way of understanding people, creating interesting people and giving readers someone to understand. That's why I like reading fiction and getting known all kinds of different people and sort of pushing the boundaries of those understandings.

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