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 any limited resource that you need to manage, like your time, your focus,

your energy, your attention, saying yes to anything.

Caries an opportunity cost.

And that opens up two questions.

First, what matters most.

What are your default priorities handed to you by society?

But what genuinely is a priority in your own life?

And stemming from that, the second question is, how do you translate that into action?

How do you practice the type of decision making, both short-term and long-term, that fuel

that which matters most?

Answering those two questions is a lifetime practice.

And that is what this podcast is here to explore.

My name is Paula Pat.

I'm the host of the Afford Anything Podcast.

And today, Psychology Professor William O'Van Hippell joins us to discuss the evolutionary

science behind why we are wired to be social, why we are wired to cooperate and communicate,

and what makes us happy.

The Afford Anything Community is overwhelmingly comprised of people who aspire to grow

their wealth or their net worth to such a point that work becomes optional, work for the

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