Rick Rubin says the biggest block to your creativity isn’t a lack of talent. It’s caring what other people will think of the thing you made.
In this clip, Rick Rubin and Jay Shetty talk about why the artists who last are the ones who stopped trying to guess what the audience wants, including the eight years Rick spent refusing a book deal because every publisher was picturing a different book.
Rick opens up about telling Johnny Cash to sing a love song to God instead of a woman, why he moved a whole band into a mansion instead of a studio, and the difference between procrastination and the kind of distraction that actually solves the problem for you.
Learn about the habit he practices the second he wakes up, why moving your body too soon erases what your subconscious just told you, and why comparing two pieces of art makes about as much sense as comparing two diary entries.
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Chapters
0:00 — Why we go against who we truly are
0:25 — The mask is not a strategy
4:30 — The traffic jam that proves you’re creative
5:22 — The biggest block to creativity
6:26 — Making the work as an offering
7:38 — What Slayer fans came for
9:24 — The book eight publishers didn’t want
13:50 — Telling Johnny Cash to sing it to God
16:44 — Recording the first take in the dark
18:01 — Why an audience of one changes everything
19:36 — What happened when the Beatles were interviewed together
23:47 — Why Drake vs. Beyoncé makes no sense
27:06 — Procrastination vs. distraction
28:23 — The walking meetings that beat every lunch
32:17 — The MIT study on who’s actually innovative
34:49 — Ten years of bad performances
39:37 — Don’t move the moment you wake up
40:55 — Reading the journal twenty years later
Watch the FULL episode on Netflix & Spotify 🎙️
Netflix – https://dub.sh/QaUsKeD
Spotify – https://dub.sh/axUXylv
Full Episode With Rick Rubin:
https://youtu.be/60pHJXUjaJY
