Rick Rubin on The Creative Act

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Education, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In the first of a two-part interview, Ryan speaks with Rick Rubin about his new book The Creative Act: A Way of Being, the importance of allowing creativity to happen rather than willing it into existence, working with the unique facets of the artist’s ego, the importance of changing up the way that you do things, the phases of the creative process, and more.

Rick Rubin is a renowned American record producer and the co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records. He has produced albums for a wide range of acclaimed artists, including the Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, Public Enemy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine, and Johnny Cash. He has won nine Grammys and has been nominated for 12 more. He has been called "the most important producer of the last 20 years" by MTV and was named on Time's list of the "100 Most Influential People in the World".

Part two of Ryan’s interview with Rick will air on February 22nd for subscribers, and March 1st for non-subscribers.

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1:00.0	Hey, it's Ryan Holliday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast
1:05.2	Because it was like seven or eight years ago now
1:07.8	I was out in Los Angeles to see my friend Neil Strauss
1:12.6	doing some marketing work on what's actually one of my favorite books of his the truth
1:18.6	Which I think we sell in the pain of porch to a great book about relationships and so I was there to see Neil
1:25.9	We're supposed to have lunch. I get there and he's like, okay, we're gonna go to lunch
1:29.7	But my friend Rick's gonna be there. I was like great, right?
1:33.7	When you're supposed to meet someone and then they're like, oh this other person's crashing the lunch
1:38.5	You never know how it's gonna go
1:40.9	But it's not like I had a choice in the matter and so we we pull up at some restaurant in Malibu
1:45.7	I think we take a golf cart and he'll golf cart there and
1:49.5	It turns out I very much know who his friend Rick is
1:53.2	I just never would have assumed that that's who would be dropping into lunch
1:57.9	It was the one and only Rick Rubin probably the greatest record producer of all time
2:04.1	Other than the fictional Bruce Dickinson of blue oyster call fam of course, but
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