Cody Cook-Parrott: Attention is a Creative Act
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The Sounds True Podcast Network. Really, I need to write a book that's just called How to Not Make Everything My Job because if I get momentum, I'm like, oh, I'll turn it into my job, and then I will have to make money at it keeping something unattached to my job, to my work. has just been so, so important to me. Welcome friends. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Cody Cook Parrott.
Cody is a writer, artist, and movement practitioner who builds simple structures that help artists make work. Cody writes a weekly newsletter, hosts the podcast Common Shapes, and facilitates a weekly writing group called Landscapes. They're the author of several books, including How to Not Always Be Working, Getting to Center, and a new book that I'm proud to say is from Sounds True. It's called The practice of attention, cultivating presence in a distracted world.
Stay with us. It was about a decade ago when I first heard this teaching from the famous management philosopher, Peter Drucker. The most important thing for an executive to learn is not how to manage other people. It's to learn how to manage yourself.
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