The Creative Act - A Way of Being - Rick Rubin
Summary
- Rick Rubin has coaxed music out of a bewildering array of artists: RunDMC, LL Cool J, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer, Aerosmith, Johnny Cash. After reading his manual for creativity I understand why - he encourages creativity in others rather than trying to give his own ideas. A must read for any creative.
How the book changed me
- It has encouraged me to systemize and maximize creativity. To always be on the lookout for creative solutions. To feed my creativity by being observant especially of nature
Details
- Creativity is a fundamental quality of being human
- Inspiration and creativity
- Where to find inspiration
- Carefully curate the quality of what you let into your mind
- The natural world is always changing - source of endless inspiration
- The world is always changing and so are we
- Dont fear self-doubt - Self-doubt is the counterpoint of creativity
- All work is collaboration
- Be ready to Challenge your process
- Listen to music with your entire body
- When we listen fully the speaker communicates differently
- Taking shortcuts shrinks our worldview
- Phases of creativity:
- The seed phase - Collecting new ideas for creativity
- Experimentation - which of the ideas is going to grow?
- Crafting - make adjustments and trim the growing idea
- Completion - the final edit stage
- The goal of art is to share who we are
- How to view feedback on our art
- Feed the river of inspiration
- Complete what you can then circle back to hard parts
- Art is about collaboration not competition or comparison
- We are interpretation machines but rarely accurate
- Deal with your inner critic
- Curiousity is a powerful learning tool
- It may take a lot of work to make something appear sponteneous
- Receive wisdom skillfully
- Collaboration vs compromise
- If you always agree with a collaborator one of you is unnecessary
- The ruthless edit
Quotes
- The natural world is unfathomably more rich interwoven and complicated than we are taught - Rick Rubin
- Making the simple complicated is commonplace - Charles Mingus
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Sun, 26 Mar 2023 12:17:32 GMT
Rick Rubin has coaxed music out of a bewildering array of artists: RunDMC, LL Cool J, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Weezer, Aerosmith, Johnny Cash. After reading his manual for creativity I understand why - he encourages creativity in others rather than trying to give his own ideas. A must read for any creative...