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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.

Cody, welcome.

Thanks so much, Tammy.

So happy to be here. Tell me how you came to write a book on the practice of attention.

Gosh, through Instagram addiction, really know just through to put it really bluntly I used Instagram

for many years and just found myself and found my community of artists really addicted to it and having their attention really

fractured by it. So this feeling of I can't sit down to write for long periods of time or I can't

record my album and focus the way I want to, right? I was seeing artists really lose their focus.

And so through my own journey

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