To Anyone Feeling LOST & UNHAPPY, Watch This To FIND MEANING In 2024 | Rick Rubin

Sometimes I feel like the YouTube algorithm is conspiring with the universe to bring me the most meaningful content at the right time. Much Gratitude!

May I be filled with love and kindness, May I be well, May I be peaceful and at ease, May I be happy 💗

I am starting over at 60. I definitely know that believing matters. I know I need a coach who is open consciously. But I am moving along. I have The Creative Act. It's everything Rick Rubin for me now.

Yes, if you have money, you can move to a beach and live your life there. This is a factor that should be taken into consideration when giving wise answers.

I just feel such gratitude being in this era of podcasts. What a blessing hearing people, great minds, sharing their thoughts and experience without hurry nor agenda. "Internet" 's what you make it. Talk Talk

Rick is like the old wise man who arrived at his wisdom through the years of living and he's kind enough to share his journey with us, thank you Rick

I love how Rick talked about his depression. That really resonated with me....before I was 21 yrs old, nothing really bad had ever happened to me. Of course my life wasn't perfect, but when I lost my first love and husband, father of our 4 yrd old son, when he died in a motorcycle wreck, it felt like the bottom my world just dropped from beneath me. I felt like I was smothering in pain for so long, but at some point my still young and immature mind reasoned with me that now "my bad thing" had happened to me, then I felt free, happy and foolishly felt like the rest of my life would be great...lol. Maybe I was still immature enough to feel carefree again finally. Six months after my husband died, our son suffered a major brain injury when a little girl found a pellet gun in my brother's yard and shot him in the right temple. The pellet traveled thru his brain to the back, where it remains today 34 yrs later. Those few weeks before I knew if my son would survive and whether he would have any quality of life again, the fear and pain was surreal and all I could think about was how I wanted to cease to exist to escape the raw, immeasurable pain. Obviously those two tragedies didn't define my life, but the lessons I learned by the time I was 22 yrs old were so valuable. I was determined to never feel sorry for myself and I raised our son to know that bad things happen to everyone, and that he didn't deserve any special treatment. I think during that time I almost started "expecting" bad things to happen at any given moment and still deal with depression and PTSD today at 54. Our experiences don't define us but they sure do play a major role in how we react and respond to the world around us. Still learning and trying to remind myself to embrace and enjoy the moment because the fleeting nature of time is like an exciting but dangerous dance with no rhyme or reason. I love how humble Rick and Dr Chatterjee always seem to be...humility and compassion definitely can't be taught, both are like beautiful scars that we carry with us for the rest of our lives.

I hate finding the best advice, the best knowledge, and having a brain that doesn’t let you believe a second of it

Of all the interviews people on YouTube have with Rick, Yours is the best because your silence directs, while being a good listener like the audience, not going back and forth, Subtle but very important

Rick Rubin and Rangan Chatterjee both give us an example of being good humans. Not in a hurry, no need to talk over each other, carefully listening and absorbing what the other person has to say. I think this is the way I try to be: Take people for who they say they are, listen to what they have to say about who they have become through their experiences in their lives. Show interest and leave your judgement elsewhere. Not just listen, but hear and feel. This is the way to honest one to one conversation, be willing to learn from each other and appreciate each other as we do our best to appreciate ourselves. These two humans give me an example of the good things I find in myself as well as other humans.

It's so refreshing to hear an MD say how much he doesn't know and how much more there is to learn. All MD's need to show more of that humility.

“You can go live on a beach, there are so many options”. Spoken like a rich person. A lot of us have absolutely zero options or path out of the 9-5 death cycle.

The last ten minutes of this interview are incredible. His advice there is a real treasure! I am a professional musician who always loved painting as well. Over the last four months I made over fifty paintings and it feels like I'm getting better at it. I also discovered that the same rules of creativity are in all art forms. Rick summs them up in the last minutes of this interview and I wrote them down for myself to remember them: 1. developing your “voice” by doing the work: "I would say, if you found your writing voice on your fifth book we can learn from that: So it sounds like if you’ll come to your fifth album you find your voice vocally and it’s not going to happen without doing the work. ... But it won’t happen without doing the work and it’s only going to be the work that’s going to make it happen." 2. Surprise yourself by trying many different approaches: "Try it all. ... Try things. See what happens. Surprise yourself with what works for you. ... You learn both through succesful and failed experiments. Each one will get you closer to where you’re going. It’s impossible to know until you try as many things as you can try. And you’ll be surprised. ... And you will also find out what’s most fun. Like what part of the discovery process is most exciting to you." 3. Energy, creativity Do you feel there is a limit to creativity? - "No, no, no. You may run out of energy, but not creativity. You may be too tired, but that’s all. In some ways the more you engage in different creative practices, the better they all get. The thing that tabs out first is just energy. You run out of steam. But not out of ideas or creative spirit. It’s eternal and forever."

"Podcasts are the modern day campfire." I love that! 😊💖

As a painter of 30 years who makes up riffs , drumbeats and melodies and performs to the paintings until something asserts itself and I know what to paint next.... much gratitude for this podcast and Ricks wise words.

This reminds me of why I did my most creative act so far, unschooling my sons. Teachers were being saddled with strict guidelines so much so that their passion and choices for teaching were being substantially undermined.

10 mins in and I’m empowered and bought the book. I’m a Broadway actor transitioning into studying traditional Chinese medicine in grad school, and this interview has been so inspiring! Thank you!

Art and life are not separate, life is an art.

I like it how Rick calls things that are obvious...yet so hidden. Simple things...that we tend to complicate.

Because of the algorithm, I've listened to a lot of Rick's interviews on his book tour. This was by far, my favorite. The genuine curiosity in this conversation is so refreshing. No peacocking. Real conversation. I wish I had heard this before reading The Creative Act.