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Learning from Fiction?
Just because it’s fiction doesn’t mean we can’t learn from it.
Despite primarily reading and writing sci-fi and fantasy, my all-time favorite work of fiction is Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist.
If you are not familiar with this book, I cannot recommend it enough. It’s a great story, well-written, and has an impactful and positive life message in it.
The gist is this — follow your dreams. Don’t let anything get in your way when you seek to live out your “personal legend”.
This is a work of fiction. But it’s brilliant. And it has many ideas and options you can make use of in your everyday life.
For example, probably my favorite quote from The Alchemist,
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”
That’s such sage advice (even if you don’t believe in God — you can substitute “God” with the powers-that-be, the Universe, Universal energy, or what-have-you).
