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Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

The Science of Rapid Learning, with Scott Young, author of Ultralearning

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

#224: Scott Young, author of Wall Street Journal best-selling book Ultralearning, talks about the 9 principles of Ultralearning, which can help you learn new skills, reinvent yourself, stay relevant, and adapt to whatever life throws at you. If you think you know the best way to learn something, think again. This book will challenge your assumptions. Whether you want to develop hard skills to become more valuable at your job, soft skills for your journey to self-improvement, or you want to honor your love for learning, these 9 principles will help you become more effective at developing new skills. If you enjoyed my interviews with James Clear or Cal Newport, you’ll enjoy this one. For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode224  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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You can afford anything, but you can't afford everything.

0:12.0

Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else.

0:14.5

A yes to one thing is an implicit no to something else and that doesn't just apply to your

0:18.2

money.

0:19.2

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

0:22.4

It applies to anything in your life that's a limited resource that you need to manage.

0:26.5

And that opens up two questions.

0:28.6

Number one, what are your priorities?

0:30.5

What do you value?

0:32.0

Number two, how do you make daily decisions that reflect those values and reflect the

0:36.8

type of life that you want to create?

0:38.8

Now answering these two questions is a lifetime practice.

0:42.0

And that is what this podcast is here to explore.

0:45.0

My name is Paula Pant and the host of the Afford Anything Podcast and I am recording this

0:49.0

intro from Kito Ecuador.

0:51.4

I am going to be an Ecuador for the next three and a half weeks and I'm here to be with

0:56.6

the financial independence community.

0:58.4

So I'm here with a lot of podcast listeners, my blog readers, my Instagram community.

1:03.1

I'm here with people from the Afford Anything community and people from the greater financial

1:06.9

independence community to spend the next three weeks deep diving into conversations, workshops,

1:15.9

exercises, speeches, presentations around exactly what I just talked about, around these

1:22.4

questions of what do you value the most and how do you build a life in accordance with

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