>> Study economics. It isn't that difficult of a subject. I just want to note that a 4th year economics course was the hardest course I ever took at university

>> Study economics. It isn't that difficult of a subject. I just want to note that a 4th year economics course was the hardest course I ever took at university. And I'm a guy who liked economics, though I didn't major in it. The course had to do with economic analysis of the law. It explained why the law was the way it was, why it was applied the way it was, etc. I never had a textbook before that made my head literally hurt, nor did reading the phd papers each week help either. I have a lot of respect for the difficulty of real economic study and the intelligence of real economists after that course. An interesting aside, my Stanford friend told me that the best mathematicians seem to be economists by far. I don't know what to make of that anecdote, but he was an engineer in a masters program, now doing his phd at Berkley. He's run into a fair bit of smart people, so I'm guessing his anecdote is worth something.