Legendary Record Producer Rick Rubin On: Creativity, Habits, Self-Doubt, Intuition and Meditation

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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We also cover: What to do when you're feeling stuck, the difference between authenticity and sincerity, and his approach to work/life balance.

Rick Rubin is a nine-time GRAMMY-winning producer and a New York Times number one best selling author of the book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time and the most successful producer in any genre by Rolling Stone. He has collaborated with artists from Tom Petty to Adele, Johnny Cash to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys to Slayer, Kanye West to the Strokes, and System of a Down to Jay-Z.

In this episode we talk about:

Rick's meditation practice
The connection between meditation and creativity
Why creativity is a birthright for all of us
How good habits help facilitate the making of good art
The benefits of accepting the magical and mysterious aspects of creativity
His analogy of the vessel and the filter
The difference between authenticity and sincerity
The role of doubt when creating
The role of intuition
What to do when you're feeling stuck in a creative endeavor
His approach to a work/life balance
His take on drugs and their effect on the creative process
And his thoughts on the creative capacity of AI

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0:00.0	This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
0:20.5	Hello everybody. When you throw out a word like creativity, many people immediately assume that they're left out of the conversation.
0:28.4	Maybe you're one of those people. Maybe you're thinking, well, I'm not an artist. What does creativity have to do with me?
0:34.4	But today we're going to talk about creativity in a much broader sense of the word.
0:38.6	If you're moving through the world and making choices about career stuff, parenting, how you treat strangers, whatever,
0:44.9	that's all creativity. At least according to my guests, the legendary record producer Rick Rubin.
0:51.0	I've been a fan of this dude since I don't know when. Just check out this partial list of artists he has worked with.
0:58.0	Amazing. The Beastie Boys, Johnny Cash, Run DMC Slayer, Weezer, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Shakira, Neil Diamond, Tom Petty, Metallica, Adele, The Strokes, and Jay-Z.
1:10.6	And like I said, that's just a partial list. The amazing part is that Rick Rubin doesn't even play music himself.
1:16.3	He's just got incredibly good taste and a kind of mystical approach to creativity that draws many of the planets most popular artists.
1:25.0	Rick Rubin has just put out a book called The Creative Act, and it's about much more than creativity narrowly defined.
1:31.2	It's actually about how to be alive. In this conversation, we talked about Rick's meditation practice,
1:37.0	which he's been doing for a long, long time. The connection between meditation and creativity.
1:41.6	Why creativity is a birthright for every single one of us? How good habits can facilitate the making of good art?
1:47.9	The benefits of accepting the magical and mysterious aspects of creativity.
1:52.5	His analogy of the vessel and the filter. The difference between authenticity and sincerity.
1:58.1	The role of doubt when creating. The role of intuition. What to do when you're feeling stuck in a creative endeavor?
2:04.2	His approach to work-life balance, which was unusual. His take on drugs and their effect on the creative process.
2:09.7	And his thoughts on the creative capacity of AI.
2:14.3	Don't miss out on the enjoy every day walking meditation pack over on the 10% happier app.
2:22.4	It's available for free until August 20th. If you haven't tried walking meditation on the app before,
2:28.0	I highly recommend you check it out here is what one user had to say. I'm quoting here.
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