The learning curve

"If you understand money, life is incredibly easy. If you don’t understand money, life is incredibly hard."

Kristy Shen

A learning curve is defined as how long it takes you to learn a new skill or knowledge.

The two metrics used to graph this are performance and attempts (iteration).

We tend to associate financial literacy with a steep curve. This leads to avoidance and ignorance to a topic that is essential to everyone.

The subject is unattractive — numbers aren’t entertaining unless you work within the field of study.

The human race has never left its bartering ways, we’ve just began to use green paper as a medium.

It is more than essential to have a baseline level of understanding on the medium that allocates freedom.

Otherwise you’ll be chained to the system.

Over the summer Modern Analects will be providing resources to help simplify these subjects that a lot of us find complex.

For now, a list of the three easiest to read books on finance I’ve came across: