Different paths work for different people. Even though I was always pretty interested in #economics, there were people like Rothbard (recommended by a friend at the time) who I wanted to read or listen to, but it was just painful somehow. His voice was definitely annoying, but there was some sort of mental block there as well.

I found that Milton Friedman talks on youtube were much more enjoyable. His arguments with socialist students were amazing. His Phil Donahue appearance was great. Eventually I watched the *original* Free to Choose series online (the later version with Arnold is trash & is missing lots of good content). From there I started listening to Thomas Sowell interviews. Tom Woods & Peter Schiff & Doug Casey were in there somewhere too. And then I read Atlas Shrugged.

Atlas was still difficult at first but eventually something clicked & I was totally cured of this feeling when reading or listening to any decent economics content. Milton & Sowell, & Woods too (economic history for highschool students is a great talk by him) are entertaining enough that they make it easy to remember concepts, get comfortable with all of the language & just really feel like this is "your subject." Milton & Sowell aren't the best on money, but they are good with most other basic concepts. Woods & Ayn Rand are good on money, & then Rothbard & others feel pretty easy IMO.