If you are going to learn how to play baseball, you are first shown how to hold a bat.
If you are going to learn how to play guitar, you learn to hold a G chord.
And the same is true for riding a bike.
Economics are different. Because we are all born from different sectors with different advantages. Some just have none.
Some things are difficult to even understand because you need 10+ years of higher education before you can understand the math.
This is what I love about skills that can be learned. In most cases, we are all starting at the same spot. So, you can appreciate the contributions experts are making in their fields because of how long it took in the first place to even get there.