If you’re like me, you have to shut down your brain when you watch movies or else you’ll figure out the ending way too soon and it will ruin everything.

What you might not know is that if you can connect things like that…movies, books, anything else with a plot…you will probably really dig and enjoy economics. Because economics is about connecting things. Money, people, industry.

People who wonder: If there is an iPod, where do all the parts come from? Where do the people live that make those parts? What resources are used in those different parts of the world – not just to make the iPod but the electricity bill of the person who screws the left hand screw in on the backside of the iPod. Where they eat lunch?

• If you have ever driven along a long and lonely stretch of road and seen a little house in the middle of nowhere and wondered, “What do they do to live?”
• If you have ever walked along a city street, looked up at a skyscraper and wondered, “What do they all do to live?”
• If you have ever walked past a person and truly wondered what they did and bought and consumed in their daily life…

You are interested in economics.

Tracing the lightbulb in your bedroom to the person who gets up at 2am to go to work and help create that lightbulb in a factory to the person who works at the electricity company to bring the light to fruition to the person who built the bedroom in the first place.

So many connecting webs, it’s more intricate than any movie or book plot. It’s life, and it’s magical in its interconnectivity.

You can follow and trace where everything leads, but economists are trying to predict what happens next. They’re trying to solve the most complex movie plots ever devised, because they are not devised and there is no set, logical ending. That’s what makes it so intereting.