Hello and welcome back! New Year, New You! We're so excited to begin a new year at

Sadistle School of Season 3, episode 734. My name is Chris Kill about so glad you're

here. In today's story, bored at work, a young economics analyst gets creative and designs

charts about love and breakups. She ends up with a book deal and a better job. All kinds

of stuff happens when she follows her curiosity. Also, there's a sentence in the first part

of this story that I will draw your attention to. That sentence is, she felt stifled and

decided to channel that feeling into something creative. So hey, as we are starting a new

experience together, do you feel stifled? Do you feel stifled in your job? Do you feel

stifled in your routine? Do you feel stifled in something else? Why not channel that feeling

into something creative? Because, as I said, and, as you'll hear in this story, when you

do that, all kinds of things can happen. That story, Data Geek charts course from analyst

to author, is coming right up.

List of Auslin was in her early 20s, fairly new to the workforce, and totally unhappy

at her day job. The life of an economics analyst is one of crunching numbers in data, not

necessarily creativity and passion. She felt stifled and decided to channel that feeling

into something creative. When it comes to making something new, it's good to start with

what you know. List was an expert at charting data in interesting ways. So she decided to

begin creating graphs, charts, and diagrams that shined a humorous light on society and

life. She took anecdotal data from everyday life and created her first charts. Those

first charts were published right before Valentine's Day, entitled 14 Ways An Economist

Says I Love You. They included things like how I love you in pie chart form and funny

stock charts indicating explosive growth in the love markets. She put them up on her

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