Digital Minimalism - with Dr. Cal Newport

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.7 • 3.6K 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

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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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