You can afford anything but not everything.

Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else and that doesn't just

apply to your money, that applies to your time, your focus, your energy, your attention,

anything in your life that's a scarce or limited resource, saying yes to something

implicitly means you're saying no to other opportunities.

And that opens up two questions.

First, what do you actually want out of life?

What's important to you?

And second, how do you align your daily, weekly, and big picture decisions in a way that

reflects that?

Answering those questions is a lifetime practice.

And that is what this podcast is here to explore.

My name is Paula Pant.

I am the host of the Affordable Care Foundation.

Do you feel like you spend too much time scrolling on social media?

Guilty.

Today, we interviewed Georgetown professor Dr. Cal Newport to learn about how to escape

this increasingly noisy world through the practice of digital minimalism.

Digital minimalism is a three-step process in which you first call the time that you spend

staring at a screen, then spend more time on curated digital activities that align with

your values, and finally, ignore everything else.

In this interview, we will discuss the philosophy of digital minimalism and how you can apply

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