How to Ask Better Questions, with Charles Duhigg

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

#269: Are you scared to take the first step toward the habits that you want to build? Do you believe in your ability to change? Or are you completely lost as to where to start? Charles Duhigg, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author of the best-selling books The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better, and host of the How To! podcast, joins us to tackle these questions. By asking “why” instead of “how,” layer-by-layer we can reveal the factors that truly hold us back from taking action. For more, go to https://affordanything.com/episode269 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You can afford anything but not everything.
0:10.6	Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else, saying yes to one thing
0:14.4	implicitly means, saying no to some other opportunity.
0:18.2	And that does not just apply to your money, it applies to any limited resource you need
0:21.5	to manage.
0:22.5	Like your time, your focus, your energy, your attention.
0:25.5	This opens up two questions.
0:27.0	First, what matters most to you?
0:29.0	Second, how do you align your daily decisions to reflect that?
0:33.8	Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice, and that is what this podcast is
0:37.2	here to explore.
0:38.8	My name is Paula Pat.
0:39.8	I am the host of the Affordable Care Foundation.
0:41.8	Normally, we are a weekly podcast.
0:43.7	We air our full episodes typically on Mondays.
0:46.6	But once a month, on the first Friday of the month, we air a special first Friday bonus
0:51.9	episode.
0:52.9	Welcome to the August 2020 first Friday bonus episode.
0:57.3	Today, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Charles DuHig is here to explain how to do a better
1:03.9	job of asking how?
1:06.4	Charles DuHig has had an impressive career.
1:08.3	He graduated from Yale University, then got an MBA from Harvard, and that became a journalist
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