YOUR economics is the ability to work out the answer to a question…without needing to look up what someone says or thinks. You have TOOLS to think with…not answers pre-fed by supposed experts. Your curiosity may drive you to play with Excel…as you want to test some of your box-and-arrows hypotheses. Give them a burning desire to understand scarcity, and a love of knowing the vast economy. They (you) will do the rest.

1- get into a market. I mean, EXPERIENCE economics first-hand. 2- form your own theory about somethong you find interesting. - we are a science because we MEASURE. So you record the price changes. And put FACTORS in your notebook 3- Now you need to see if you are right. Look into a video or textbook. 4- The motivational part of diving in. Notice how much more excited you are to read textbooks now! 5- The consolidating. So you've been in the market. Found a basic, interesting question. You've drawn boxes and arrows. Trying to establish some form of causality. 6- The branching. So then you might realize…oh, Ive been looking at it from the consumer's view, how about the producer? 7- From subject to subject. Let your curiosity…and interest to answer that specific question…guide your chapter selection. 8- Ask when super-stuck. Discipline yourself to find the answer yourself. 9- The breaking point. Now when when you piece/put together. Like a puzzle. You draw connections. You see you still have LOTS of holes. But your interest levels are still high. You feel frustrated. Thats a GOOD feeling…not a bad one. 10- Life. Even if you chicken out, and just take a taught course, you will need to follow the above steps anyway. Thats how we all learn our respective subjects. The slow march of experiencing…and explaining…until you run out of ideas from the textbook.