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Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Digital Minimalism - with Dr. Cal Newport

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

#176: Cal Newport created a philosophy called digital minimalism, which is idea of reducing your digital life down to only the most important core essentials. Remove the apps from your phone, then slowly re-introduce only the ones that are the most useful and beneficial. Take control of your smartphone, rather than letting it control you.   Digital minimalism is a philosophy of technology use. This philosophy pulls from the concepts of minimalism, essentialism, the slow movement, and the 80/20 principle, applying these ideas towards your digital life. Cal discusses the digital minimalist philosophy on today’s episode. For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode176  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You can afford anything but not everything.

0:10.8

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

0:14.0

apply to your money.

0:15.0

It applies to your time, your focus, your energy, your attention.

0:18.6

It applies to anything in your life that is a resource that you need to manage.

0:23.0

So how do you wisely manage these resources?

0:27.4

Today's podcast episode is going to deep dive into what might be your very most important

0:32.6

asset, your attention.

0:34.8

How do you manage your attention particularly in this era of digital distraction?

0:40.9

Dr. Cal Newport is on today's episode to talk about that.

0:44.6

My name is Paula Pant.

0:45.6

I'm the host of the Afford Anything Podcast.

0:47.4

Welcome to the show.

0:48.9

I am very excited to have Cal Newport back on the show.

0:51.6

I've been a big fan of his for many years.

0:53.4

I started reading him before I even started a blog back when he was writing about study

0:59.0

hacks and about the nuanced ideas around the idea of follow your passion.

1:03.8

He has a great body of work out there.

1:06.2

Today he joins us on the show to talk about a specific philosophy that he calls digital

1:11.8

minimalism.

1:13.9

Digital minimalism takes the concept of minimalism, the concept of focusing on what matters

1:19.4

and ignoring the rest and applies it to your digital life.

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