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Name: The Creative Act
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Author: Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

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What’s in it for me? Embrace the artist within you.

Most people believe that they’re not creative. That the life of the artist belongs to someone else. Someone who lives in Hollywood, or who grew up in a well-connected family, or who won writing competitions at the age of 12.

But the truth is that we’re all creative and we can all learn to tap into our talents. We just need to doggedly cultivate a creative practice.

Award-winning producer Rick Rubin, author of The Creative Act, has been living a creative life for decades. In this Blink, we’ll detail some of the most powerful strategies he’s used to embrace his inner artist.

Along the way, you’ll discover how to hone your own awareness and become receptive to all sorts of unlikely inspiration. You’ll also find how you can nurture your creative “seeds” and turn them into works of art. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you’ll discover how to embrace making art purely for the reason that it makes you happy.

Open yourself up to creative inspiration.

Think of a mighty peach tree standing tall in your garden. The tree creates a harvest of peaches every summer. It doesn’t try to grow the peaches. It doesn’t agonize over whether it is, in fact, worthy enough to be a peach-maker. It just allows the force of creation to move through it. It does what it was born to do, easily and efficiently, moving with the rhythms of the universe.

We are all like that peach tree. We’re all naturally creative. We all have the urge to make things, whether that’s a sculpture, a song, a peach pie, or an innovative project at our company. And, like that tree, we’d do well to put our doubts aside and let the creative forces of the universe do their work.

All we need to do is open ourselves up.

OK, but this might be easier said than done. How can you move toward making this a reality?

The first step is easy. Start by noticing what’s going on in the world around you. The next time you get the train home or take a walk around your neighborhood, put down your phone. Pry those headphones from your ears.

Feel the sharp kiss of the wind on your cheek. Listen to the juicy morsels of gossip your fellow passengers are whispering about. Check out the wild outfit your neighbor wears while he’s mowing the lawn. Appreciate the barren beauty of even the most wintery forest.

There’s so much to notice in the world if you only allow yourself to look.

The work of an artist is to cultivate an openness to the world around you. To sharpen your sense of awareness so that you become receptive to the surprises and clues and nudges the universe is trying to give you – all the time. We do ourselves a disservice when we imagine that we create art purely by ourselves. In reality, you’re always accompanied.

So, the next time you’re struggling with a creative problem, ask the universe for help and look for the clues. Open a book to a random page and see if you get inspired by a quote. Or pick a movie at random and see what moves you while you’re watching. Or spend 15 minutes in a shop you’d never normally enter. Being receptive to clues is more poetry than science. It’s about recognizing that every facet of your life can contain wonder and that inspiration can lie in unlikely places.

The best way to cultivate the practice of awareness is by looking for regular moments in your day when you can take the time to pause. Try taking a few extra minutes in bed each morning, drawing deep breaths, and checking in with the sensations of your body. Or make it a daily ritual to walk the few blocks to your office instead of taking a cab. Or end every evening by listening to music with your eyes closed. By hooking the habit of awareness onto your existing routine, you can start to integrate it into your life. Then, after enough practice, you’ll notice that it’s become second nature.

Monitor your inflow.

From the moment we wake up in the morning to the second we fall asleep, we’re bombarded by information: upsetting news from all over the planet; photos from random acquaintances; and the ever-urgent emails that ping in our mailboxes.

As an artist, you need to become rigorous about monitoring your in-flow. Your attention and awareness are the most valuable things that you have. You can’t allow other people to fill up that space with input that you don’t really need or want.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Many of the most talented artists are also the most insecure. The same sensitivity that allows people to make art can make them deeply sensitive to criticism.

Artists don’t create work in the absence of doubt and insecurity. They create in spite of it. In fact, Rubin discusses one famous performer who still experiences terrible stage fright, even after performing for five decades. He walks onto the stage each even though he feels sick to his stomach with nerves. The only thing that makes him keep going is that his drive to share his art is more powerful than his fear of screwing up.

Lower the stakes and have some fun.

When you’re feeling too scared to start making something, the best thing you can do is to lower the stakes. Tell yourself you don’t need to create a masterpiece. In fact, give yourself permission to make the shoddiest piece of work you could imagine. Tell yourself that you just need to put in the time. Whatever you make is irrelevant. It won’t impact your career, and you don’t have to share it with anyone else if you don’t want to.

Allow yourself to enjoy the process of creating without being fixated on the results. As long as you’re consistently doing the work, the results will come. All you have to worry about is showing up. And allow yourself to have some fun. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, “some things are too important to be taken seriously.” Unfortunately, artists can take themselves very seriously indeed. But if you put too much pressure on yourself, you’ll end up having lots of serious ideas and nothing to show for it. You’ll become paralyzed by self-importance and never actually make anything.

Craft your ideas into reality.

Crafting is the least glamorous stage of the creative process, but also the most essential. It’s the phase where you get to turn your idea into reality. Crafting is like building your house, brick-by-brick. You make sure the beams are sturdy and the structure holds. You insert the window frames and doors. You progress slowly and steadily, checking that everything works as you go along.

Crafting can be disheartening. Sometimes the glorious visions you had in your head are hard to translate into something more concrete. You may have to accept that your work might not be exactly as you imagined it to be. But that doesn’t mean that your creation has no value. Maybe it’s taken you a step closer to your dreams. Maybe it’s like the first pancake of the batch: not perfect, but a vital practice round that allows you to make a much more delicious second pancake. The point is, you’re making art. You’re allowing yourself to create even though all the scary voices in your head tell you that there’s no point and you’ll never amount to anything.

Why do we make art? In order to make art.

Some people claim that art should have a purpose. That it should always be political, or advance the social good. These are noble ideas but they’re also misguided. The purpose of making art is to make art. No more and no less. We can’t control how it lands with a particular audience. And we can’t manufacture work solely to fit a cause.

That kind of art rings hollow because it's born out of pragmatism instead of creative inspiration. It feels didactic and forced.

Final Summary

If you take the time to tune into the world around you, you’ll discover that it’s filled with creative inspiration. Whenever you’re feeling stuck, ask the universe to send you a nudge, and watch what appears. By allowing yourself to play and experiment with your creative intuitions, you’ll develop your “seeds” into solid ideas. If the creative process scares you, it means you’re doing it right. Just don’t allow your fears to stop you.

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The Creative Act (2023) is a meditative manifesto about what it really means to be an artist. It contends that artists don’t have a monopoly on creativity – everyone is inherently creative. To access that creativity you just need to commit to a creative practice. By cultivating an awareness of the world around you and allowing yourself to make lots of mistakes, you’ll be able to revel in the creative process, instead of fearing it.

Wer The Creative Act lesen sollte

Music lovers looking for inspiration from a world-famous producer
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Über den Autor

Rick Rubin is a nine-time Grammy Award–winning producer. He’s been named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine and is widely considered to be the most successful producer of all time. Rubin is the cofounder of Def Jam Recordings and has worked with musicians like Adele, Beastie Boys, and Public Enemy.

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