School made it feel like an endless parade of dates, treaties, and dead people I was expected to memorize for a test on Friday and forget by Monday.
As an adult, I realized history is basically the world's longest-running reality show. It's full of ego, ambition, greed, innovation, luck, terrible decisions, and unintended consequences. Once I stopped memorizing dates and started asking why things happened, it became fascinating.
I used to think, "Why do I need to know about the Roman Empire?"
Now I catch myself reading about how Roman concrete worked at 11 PM for absolutely no practical reason.
Supply curves, demand curves, graphs everywhere. It felt completely disconnected from real life.
Then I became an adult and started paying taxes, buying a house, investing, and following interest rates. Suddenly all those boring concepts explained why mortgage rates move, why groceries get expensive, and why stock markets react the way they do.
Turns out economics becomes much more interesting when your own money is involved 😂.
The Subject You Hated in School But Love as an Adult
What changed? Better teacher? Better resources? Different life context?
History.
School made it feel like an endless parade of dates, treaties, and dead people I was expected to memorize for a test on Friday and forget by Monday.
As an adult, I realized history is basically the world's longest-running reality show. It's full of ego, ambition, greed, innovation, luck, terrible decisions, and unintended consequences. Once I stopped memorizing dates and started asking why things happened, it became fascinating.
I used to think, "Why do I need to know about the Roman Empire?"
Now I catch myself reading about how Roman concrete worked at 11 PM for absolutely no practical reason.
OMG Econ.
I hated it in high school and college.
Supply curves, demand curves, graphs everywhere. It felt completely disconnected from real life.
Then I became an adult and started paying taxes, buying a house, investing, and following interest rates. Suddenly all those boring concepts explained why mortgage rates move, why groceries get expensive, and why stock markets react the way they do.
Turns out economics becomes much more interesting when your own money is involved 😂.