Rick Rubin Shares His Secrets for Creativity

I love what he said about collaboration. It’s not about getting “your idea” into the thing you’re working on, it’s about working together to build the best thing.

As an artist, musician and video animator for the last twenty years, Rubin is saying almost everything I have thought about being an artist all in one video. So many great points here.

“It’s the people that you first see and might not like, that you come to like. Because you don’t understand them at first. Those are the ones that change the world.”

When he mentions , “when you hear the unexpected you laugh” there’s been a couple times recently writing a verse in my flow state, recorded it , and listened to it. I’ll just laugh after I hear it, for it’s impressive to me , that I even made that verse. Such a remarkable feeling of joy , sometimes I even tear up. Music such a beautiful conduit .

Such a simple idea but when he said "we're not smart enough to know what people like" that really resonated with me. It's so true and half the time people don't even know what they themselves like. A lot of incredible things stop in their tracks when a creator gets in their head thinking about what's gonna be received well or not.

Rick fully understands the inner power artists and everyone has if we simply get out of our own way and trust it. It’s always there no matter how many times you fall, or let’s drugs win or allow someone elses limitations affect you it’s still there ❤ it never leaves us.

At the end of the video, Rick Rubin talks about being open and observant to forces of the universe guiding you toward an idea. As an artist, I have found that this is indeed the case. It is a real phenomenon. Once you open yourself up to the gentle nudging the universe has to offer, you will never be searching for new ideas, new ideas will be presenting themselves on a constant and continual basis when you are in the open and observing mindset.

This is literally it. It took me 10 years in the industry to realize. Awesome gift to the creative community

Rick speaks pure 24K Gold in this interview!!As an emerging artist/producer working two other day jobs I can appreciate his pearls of wisdom.

You can literally hallucinate objects and beings into existence because what's happening is you're tapping into that pure abstract creative potential of mind. That's exactly what you want. Of course it can be kind of freaky but Rick is that times a thousand.

0:01 - How to live a creative life 0:48 - Following your passions 1:17 - Rick's recipe for success 2:16 - Talent vs. work ethic 2:34 - How to be a better collaborator 3:14 - How to make great art 4:29 - Create art for yourself 5:05 - Where ideas come from 6:51 - The role of laughter 7:14 - Collaborating with the universe (the timestamps in the description doesn't work)

There’s a reason this man is so famous. It’s all right here. Friendly monsters among us. ❤

"It's the people who you first see and you might not like that you come to like because you don't understand them first. Those are the one who change the world."

I like his take on being 'personal' and being yourself.

Rick is a gift to Humanity

Yup I’ve lacked work ethic for so long, and he’s absolutely correct. Talent without work ethic will not go anywhere. Unless discovered by someone who offers a really great opportunity, but usually that’s noticed for someone who actually has work ethic.

This reminds me of the parable of the sower in the Bible. Ideas are the seeds coming down to different people (soils). In order to grow something great you need to be open, ready, and have the skills/work ethic to execute on the idea. Just like how the soil has to be prepared before a seed can grow.

There’s a kind of “spiritual obedience” being discussed here. I relate to that. Seeing past what everyone else SEEMS to be assuming; and pointing out that underlying principle that seems to be kind of protruding from the woodwork… except the woodwork is like the veil of the space between objects and these things kind of just come out, like a wormhole created by Dr. Strange or something. I tried to describe this process to my brother who is a Major in the Air Force. He nodded his head and said, “Yeah. Yeah. It’s called ‘Leadership’.”

From an artist and a producer for almost 20 years, this is literally spot on. Everything he's saying is true.

The segment about hearing an idea from a stranger talking in a coffee shop is very interesting to me. I believe creative people naturally gravitate towards experiencing the world with a lens that could enable them to hear a strangers conversation and generate an idea from it, while other people might let it drown in the noise. Its about paying attention to the world around you