ECONOMICS 101

Even after all this time

The sun never says to the earth,

"You owe me."

Look what happens

with a love like that,

It lights the Whole Sky.

-Hafiz

This poem is in the book "Sacred Economics" that I started reading today.

 

The author has a different perspective on economics, that's why I chose this book to read.

I am also reading "Brave New World", a dystopian fiction work. I love this genre. Another genre I'm going to get into soon is detective/noir fiction. 

So I've been reading some fiction. And I noticed it slows my reading levels down to massive levels but also raised my vocabulary and with this an increase in inner confidence and an improvement in facial and social cues reading skills (because now I can name a whole lot more of facial expressions and emotions, etc). 

But I still need do something about it. I need to read more. And faster. There are many subjects that catch my attention, but that until now (the past year) I never really had the resources/will to read about them.

Books on self development are boring now. There's nothing new to learn. They all look the same to me. Today I started reading one but soon quit because there was nothing new to it I haven't read yet in other books. 

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Anyway, this semester I'm taking this class, "Development Economics". Just because I want to have classes on that campus, because I'm interested in economics and want to learn more about it and just because. And I also had another economics class last semester.

Well the thing is, I already had a keen interest for economics and I am fascinated how the world works "economically" and now, because knowing I things work makes me feel good, I decided to read a book about it (if you don't count the three "freakonomics" that is). 

Economics is cool because it makes me feel more in control. In control of what I don't know for sure, but it somehow gives me that feeling. 

I guess both me and economics make up a good marriage. And business. And intercultural communication.

My reading concentration is getting better, I feel like my content retention is somehow getting better, or I just feel that (probably thanks to my better concentration) my comprehension is getting better too. Another thing I feel is that I think this concentration improvement (also from riding bicycle and the "tunnel view") is now presenting itself not just in reading but in other things as well.