Rick Rubin: How to Access Your Creativity

Huberman Lab

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Science, Health & Fitness, Life Sciences

4.8 • 26.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 181 minutes

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My guest is Rick Rubin, one of the most renowned music producers of all time, known for his work with a wide range of artists, including Run DMC, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, JayZ, Adele, Johnny Cash, LL Cool J, Slayer, Neil Young, Ye (formerly Kayne West), Tom Petty, and many more. He is also the author of a new book, "The Creative Act: A Way of Being," which explores the creative process and how to access creativity. We discuss topics such as finding inspiration, the role of feelings as guideposts, learning from observing nature, balancing self-doubt and anxiety, and adopting new perspectives to channel the creative process. Rick also shares his thoughts on using deadlines, eliminating distractions, and how our experiences and emotions influence the creative process. Additionally, we discuss his love for professional wrestling. Our conversation can be applied to any activity or profession to access creativity. For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman Maui Nui: https://mauinuivenison.com/huberman Thesis: https://takethesis.com/huberman WHOOP: https://join.whoop.com/huberman InsideTracker: https://www.insidetracker.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman Timestamps (00:00:00) Rick Rubin (00:04:08) Maui Nui Venison, Thesis, WHOOP, Momentous (00:08:23) Creativity & Ideas, Cloud Analogy (00:12:26) Language & Creativity; Kids (00:17:36) Feelings & Creative Ideas (00:22:01) Rules, Choice & Art; Personal Taste & Other’s Opinions (00:30:20) Changing Perspective & Creativity (00:33:55) AG1 (Athletic Greens) (00:35:04) Scientific Knowledge; Opinions & Art (00:41:27) Finishing Projects; The Source & Nature (00:47:40) Perception Filters, Contrast & Novelty (00:58:42) Music & Identity, Evolving Tastes (01:03:03) InsideTracker (01:04:14) Focus, Disengaging & Subconscious; Anxiety (01:13:22) Collaboration, Art & Rigorous Work (01:18:26) Process & “Cloud”; Perception & Storytelling (01:29:13) Limited Resolution, Considering the Inverse (01:35:38) Wrestling, Energy & Reality; Dopamine (01:49:43) Wrestling, Style & Performance (01:52:40) Resetting Energy & Nature; Nostalgia (02:01:56) Sleep, Waking Up & Sunlight, Capturing Ideas (02:08:16) Creative Work Phases; Structure & Deadlines (02:15:32) Self-Doubt & Performance (02:19:13) Predictability & Surprise, Authenticity (02:25:02) Past Experiences, Other’s Opinions (02:29:42) Public Opinion & Science: Light, Acupuncture & Nutrition (02:39:44) “Look for Clues”, Belief Effects (02:46:25) Attention, Emotion & Art (02:48:07) Mantra Meditation, Awareness Meditation (02:57:33) Rick Rubin Questions, Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter Disclaimer Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.
0:08.6	I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and
0:12.1	Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. Today my guest is Rick Rubin.
0:16.6	Rick Rubin is credited with being one of the most creative and prolific music producers of all time.
0:21.6	The range of artists with whom he's worked with and discovered is
0:24.5	Absolutely staggering ranging from artists such as L.O. Cool J public enemy minor threat Fugazi
0:30.7	Beastie boys Jesus a Marychain
0:33.0	Jay Z. Red Hot Chili Peppers Metallica Green Day Tom Petty system of a down Joe Strummer Kanye West Johnny Cash
0:40.0	Adele and many many more not surprisingly therefore
0:44.0	Rick is considered somewhat of an enigma that is people want to know how it is that one individual is able to extract
0:51.1	the best creative artistry from so many different people in so many different genres of music well as today's discussion reveals
0:59.4	Rick's expertise in the creative process extends well beyond music in fact our conversation takes us into the realm of
1:05.9	What the creative process is specifically and generally across domains including music of course
1:12.4	but also writing film science and essentially all domains in which new original thought ideas and
1:19.5	Production of anything becomes important our conversation ventures from abstract themes such as what is creativity and where does it stem from?
1:27.9	To the more concrete everyday tool-based approaches to creativity including those that Rick himself uses and that he's seen other people use to great success
1:36.7	That took us down some incredible avenues ranging from a discussion about the subconscious to how the subconscious interacts with our conscious mind and how the
1:44.7	subconscious and conscious mind interact with nature around us and within us indeed our conversation got rather
1:51.2	scientific at times but all with an eye and a near toward understanding the practical tools that any and all of us can use
1:57.5	in order to access the creative process
2:00.1	We also spend some time talking about Rick's new book which is all about creativity and ways to access
2:05.6	creativity the title of the book is the creative act a way of being by Rick Rubin
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