Rick Rubin

And now let’s jump into episode 1847 of The School of Greatness!

Some Questions I Ask:

• When have you felt like you’ve been most insecure in your creative endeavors?
• Do you ever face the inner critic of what if other people don’t like this?
• How does someone tap into their own magic when they have such a critical mind, self-criticism, but also family critics, managers, all that other stuff criticizing what’s good and what’s not good?
• What is the biggest thing you struggle with today?
• What do you see is a thing that holds people back the most from being their most creative and best self?
• How important is confidence for an artist in your mind to have?
• What does an artist need to be thinking and feeling at the same time to create great art?
• Do you have a process when you’re starting the first session with an artist after you’ve been introduced and you say, okay, let’s do this?
• What was the experience for you where the artist or the band came in and it was the fastest, best flowing process you’ve ever experienced?
• Do you think it’s better to make your art from a place of pain, anger, or sadness, or from a place of love, peace, and harmony?
• What’s the most painful thing you’ve been through that you’ve had to heal and overcome?
• If you could go back to your 40-year-old self, what would the number one piece of advice be for you at 40?
• Who has been the most musically gifted artist that you’ve been able to work with?
• What do you think is the best habits that an artist can have?

In this episode, you will learn:

• Discover why making art for yourself is the only path to truly serving your audience and how the moment you stop caring about reactions is when your best work emerges
• Transform your relationship with creative blocks by understanding that obstacles aren’t always meant to be pushed through and sometimes the universe is telling you now is not the time
• Break through decades of people-pleasing by recognizing that your inner voice knows exactly what tastes good to you and no external opinion can convince you otherwise
• Uncover the hidden cost of success and why achieving your biggest goals often reveals they were never going to fill the hole in your soul
• Master the practice of making art as a devotional act and learn why creating a gift for God eliminates every worldly concern about chart positions and commercial performance
• Plus much more…

Show Notes:

• Rick’s book The Creative Act