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You 2.0: Empathy Gym

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The Importance of Being an Actor

There's a fair amount of evidence now that, sort of, the more fiction that people read, the more empathic that they become. And i think this is especially important because fiction is one of the most powerful ways to connect with people who are different from us. So for instance, maybe it would be hard to meet some one who is, i don't know, abolivian minor, but you could probably go to a bookstore and find a novel about their experiences. I mean, deep, deeply written, beautifully written narrative fiction has his ability to pull us deep into the lives of other people absolute....

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