[skydhash]

Personal POV:

I mostly read Fantasy books and a little bit of SF, but the main points I would say is better visualization. Reading textbooks gives you understanding, but being able to reconstruct scenes and characters just from a few lines is a nice plus. When reading story from a ticket, it's become much easier to visualize a concrete use case. Also empathy building. Manuals and documentation are very dry and text is more constrained bandwidth-wise than visual interactions. Reading fiction can help you interact better through text emotionally. And we respond better to stories than logical arguments.`

[mewpmewp2]

Do you mean visualising a mental imagery? Because I wonder if I never could enjoy fiction and anything with long descriptions of a scene or what something looks like because I couldn't see the image and other people do? E.g. I might have aphantasia?

I like the idea of learning about human psychology though.

[romanhn]

You might indeed. I do as well, and the long scenery descriptions are basically fluff to me, adding nothing to the experience. That said, I quite enjoy fiction, so that must be something else.

[thesnide]

Indeed. Do DnD style tabletops with your dev team mates. Seriously. It definitely enables you to know how they operate.

And in general, it also enables you to understand the meaning of some writing for and from others.

Boosting its creativity is a nice bonus.