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We can be guided in the same way that a hummingbird is guided to build a nest. The same way we can get back to our true connection if we if we get out of our own way. From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.

For 18 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do,

how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.

On this episode, record producer Rick Rubin talks about his book on creativity.

It's the first time my name has been on the front of something.

My name's always on the back.

When the celebrated record producer Rick Rubin decided to write about making great art,

he created a book about how to be in the world.

This is because he believes, as I do, that life itself is a creative act.

Rick Rubin has won nine Grammy Awards and over the years he has produced a who's who of musical artists from Madel to the Beastie Boys, Red Hot

Chili Peppers, Johnny Cash and Jay-Z. His range is vast and his talents are many. They also include prose this man can really write.

Rick's latest creation is a rich meditation and love letter of sorts to creativity, and it just debuted at the very top of the New York Times bestseller list.

It's titled The Creative Act, A Way of Being, and we're going to talk all about it and more in our conversation today.

Rick Rubin, welcome to Design Matters.

Hello, pleasure meeting you.

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