the skills they have learnt about evaluating someone else's story, to challenge preconceived perceptions about their own. Therefore, reading other peoples stories (even if they do not seem 'interesting') can teach us how to direct, or 'write' our own.  In other words, we do not have to stay within the 'how the story was told' tunnel, we can continue forward to the 'how I learn ' path. This is the author's rite; you can choose to be the author of your own life, rather than being a character in someone else's.