 a lot of people always ask me yo man why don't you read fiction well i'm going to give you a straight up answer quite frankly i think fiction fiction is a waste of time i used to be one of those people i used to read you know those books the big ass ones the game of thrones books you know harry potter all these different series and whatnot and i slowly changed my reading material to more of the non-fiction you know biographies business books personal development books spiritual books and stuff like that the reason i've done this is because i've come to the conclusion that our time is pretty short on this earth right and if we are going to achieve what we want to achieve we need to be putting what we need in our brains we need to be feeding our brains the right material for success and non-fiction is that it gives you practical advice it gives you real-world advice and real-world evidence of things that can elevate you fiction is as good as watching a tv show all it does is it works on your imagination skills if you're reading fiction to me it's second hand material compared to non-fiction i mean you're going to read fiction for amusement or for you know entertainment the same way you can watch a movie that'll get to think a certain type of way that will make your brain be in another state of consciousness almost but for practical aspects i think non-fiction is the way to go you can't really get too much out of fiction because it's fiction it's not real sure you can say that some of the fiction books are based on reality and based on concepts in reality but wouldn't it be more insightful to read on history things that have happened or read on you know new scientific advances so you know exactly what's going on in reality and not speculation so that's my approach that's why decide that it's better for me to read non-fiction and if i want to read fiction i find it much better to just watch a movie it's quicker and gets the point gets the main points than reading the fiction books the fiction books have got up to 800 pages a thousand pages i could read about four non-fiction books and get practical advice in the same amount of time so it depends what you're reading for you're reading for entertainment or you're reading to learn and grow if you're reading to learn and grow i recommend you stick with the non-fiction books if you're reading for a little bit of fun a little bit of entertainment going with fiction and that's my approach but you can do whatever you want peace