Bored With Economics? Try Actually Using It.

Are you actually using the information you’re being taught?

Find a practical purpose for the courses your taking. Not only will this help your attention span, it will help your grades. If you can actually apply the information from your courses to daily life, the significance will help the information stick.

For example, here's how to approach economics:

Few courses break down how a society works more than economics. Whether you run your own business, want to understand political debates or invest in the stock market, basic economics is a must.

If you’re creative you can apply economic ideas to situations without money. Relationships, time-management or health can take on new perspectives if you start looking for the relative scarcity in a problem.

Gary Becker won the Nobel Prize in Economics for expanding the analysis of economics in this way. The broad application of economic principles to illuminating all areas of life is part of what drew me into the field. For example, you can use economics to study religion, politics, law, family, crime, poverty, technological innovation, business and much, much more. It's difficult to think of an area of life or activity of man that it does not touch upon.