The Creative Act
eBook - ePub

The Creative Act

A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller

  1. 432 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Creative Act

A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller

About this book

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023

Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with a state of innocence from which the surprising becomes inevitable.

Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn't, he has learned that being an artist isn't about your specific output; it's about your relationship to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone's life, and everyone can make that place larger. In fact, there are few more important responsibilities.

The Creative Act is a beautiful and generous course of study that illuminates the path of the artist as a road we all can follow. It distils the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime's work into a luminous reading experience that puts the power to create moments – and lifetimes – of exhilaration and transcendence within closer reach for all of us.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Everyone Is a Creator
  6. Tuning In
  7. The Source of Creativity
  8. Awareness
  9. The Vessel and the Filter
  10. The Unseen
  11. Look for Clues
  12. Practice
  13. Submerge (The Great Works)
  14. Nature as Teacher
  15. Nothing is Static
  16. Look Inward
  17. Memories and the Subconscious
  18. It’s Always There
  19. Setting
  20. Self-Doubt
  21. Make it Up
  22. Distraction
  23. Collaboration
  24. Intention
  25. Rules
  26. The Opposite is True
  27. Listening
  28. Patience
  29. Beginner’s Mind
  30. Inspiration
  31. Habits
  32. Seeds
  33. Experimentation
  34. Try Everything
  35. Crafting
  36. Momentum
  37. Point of View
  38. Breaking the Sameness
  39. Completion
  40. The Abundant Mindset
  41. The Experimenter and the Finisher
  42. Temporary Rules
  43. Greatness
  44. Success
  45. Connected Detachment (Possibility)
  46. The Ecstatic
  47. Point of Reference
  48. Non-Competition
  49. Essence
  50. Apocrypha
  51. Tuning Out (Undermining Voices)
  52. Self-Awareness
  53. Right Before Our Eyes
  54. A Whisper Out of Time
  55. Expect a Surprise
  56. Great Expectations
  57. Openness
  58. Surrounding the Lightning Bolt
  59. 24/7 (Staying In It)
  60. Spontaneity (Special Moments)
  61. How to Choose
  62. Shades and Degrees
  63. Implications (Purpose)
  64. Freedom
  65. The Possessed
  66. What Works for You (Believing)
  67. Adaptation
  68. Translation
  69. Clean Slate
  70. Context
  71. The Energy (In the Work)
  72. Ending to Start Anew (Regeneration)
  73. Play
  74. The Art Habit (Sangha)
  75. The Prism of Self
  76. Let It Be
  77. Cooperation
  78. The Sincerity Dilemma
  79. The Gatekeeper
  80. Why Make Art?
  81. Harmony
  82. What We Tell Ourselves