How to Be More Creative | Rick Rubin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

It's pretty , usually it's pretty straightforward , you know , when you have two choices , which you like better . And I think most creativity can be boiled down to that . That's very different than I wonder how this is going to perform on certain social media platforms .

How to Be More Creative | Rick Rubin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

When something feels creatively right ? And you're sensing it and um and you're there , let's say in the studio or maybe even you're listening to something that somebody sent you .

How to Be More Creative | Rick Rubin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

You know , it's like it's , it's um sometimes more choices is not better . So limiting your palate to something manageable forces you to solve problems in a different way . Now , in our um in our digital age , um music wise , you can make anything um digitally , there's no like in , in , there was a time when , if you didn't have a guitar in the studio , you couldn't record guitar or if you didn't , if you couldn't hire an orchestra , there couldn't be orchestra on your recording now , you can just call any of those things up .

How to Be More Creative | Rick Rubin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

It's like , hm , maybe I put too much salt and you , and you know , when you taste it , it's like , it's , it's that simple , um , being in tune enough with ourselves to really know how we feel in the face of knowing that other people might feel very differently , which is part of the challenge . It's like , um , if everyone tells you a AA , a AAA and you listen and you're like , that's b um , as an artist , it's important to be able to say to me it's b and that's a di , it's a disconnect because so much of , you know , when we go to school it's to get us to follow the rules and in art it's different because the , the rules are there as a scaffolding to be , um chipped away as need be . Sometimes they're helpful , sometimes they're not and sometimes we'll even impose our own rules to give something its shape .

How to Be More Creative | Rick Rubin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Final uh final works . Understanding how , how you feel in the face of other voices without second guessing yourself is probably the single most important um thing to practice as an artist or skill set to develop as an artist is to know how you feel and own your feelings . And the , and the key to that is not , I know .