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 saying no to all other opportunities and that opens

up to questions, first, what matters most, and second, how do you align your decision-making

around that which matters most?

Answering those two questions is a lifetime practice and that's what this podcast is

here to explore and facilitate.

My name is Paula Pant, I am the host of the Afford Anything Podcast.

Today's episode is going to focus on developing mastery.

This is a fundamental underlying skill set that we can apply in any domain, at any point

in our lives.

So you can develop mastery in your practice of managing money.

You can develop mastery as an investor.

You can develop mastery within your primary career or if you decide to take an early retirement

and then shift into a second act, you can develop mastery in that second act.

However you choose to apply it, the underlying skill set of learning how to learn, learning

how to become better at whatever you want to become better at is a life skill that will

serve you no matter what you're doing, no matter what decision you make.

And so to discuss how to do that, in today's episode we've brought on Dr. Ron Friedman,

who is an award-winning social psychologist and the founder of Ignite 80, which is a learning

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