Creative Act
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2094 - Colion Noir
Podcast: The Joe Rogan ExperienceHe wrote this book on creativity, it's really good, it's really fascinating.
- Episode: Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 103
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireHis new book is entitled The Creative Act: A Way of Being, and it's not at all the book you might expect from someone in the music industry. It's a book about...
- Episode: Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 103
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireBut before we get into the book, I'm hoping he'll explain to me how a white college student in the early 1980s became foundational to the development of hip-hop.
- Episode: Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 103
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireI have to confess I know very little about the music industry, and it never would have occurred to me to invite you on the show, but as we were brainstorming potential guests, someone in the meeting noted that Rick Rubin's got a new book out, and he's legendary.
- Episode: Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 103
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireI picked up a copy of your book knowing literally nothing about it, and I was honestly shocked.
- Episode: Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 103
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireThis book isn't a memoir or an expose; it's a book of philosophy, a meditation, and it spoke deeply to me from the very first pages.
- Episode: Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 103
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireI gotta say, I rarely have been so surprised by a book in such a positive way.
- Episode: Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 103
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireBefore we talk about the book, can I ask you an embarrassing question?
- Episode: Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 103
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireThe big part of what the book's about is that the artist's work is to live in the world in a way where you notice the things that no one else notices.
- Episode: Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 103
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireReading your book, I suddenly stopped in my tracks.
- Episode: Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 103
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireBut somewhere towards the end of your book, I broke out in this big smile, and I thought, 'Maybe I am an artist.'
- Episode: Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 103
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireYou have an interesting point in the book about being like a spectator to your own failures.
- Episode: Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 103
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireThere was a lot in Rick Rubin's book that spoke to me.
- Episode: Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 103
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireBut if there's one big message, one that I would love for you to carry away, it's something early in the book.
- Episode: Peter Attia: Adding 10 Healthy Years to Your Life | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 102
Podcast: People I (Mostly) AdmireHe has a new book out about the creative process, and it's one of the strangest things I've ever read. I remember when I started the whole endeavor about eight years ago; meeting with publishers, I explained how I envisioned the book, and all of them said, 'Yeah, but you’re going to tell stories about Johnny Cash and you're going to discuss Jay-Z.'