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 .

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

That's different than what is it when I'm tasting these two things , which is the one I wanna finish eating and , and if I were to say , hm , I like this one better , but it needs a little salt and then put a little salt on . 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 .

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

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 . So we can decide to make a , um we're gonna make a painting , but we're only gonna use uh green and red are the only clothes we're , we're allowed to use .

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

It'd be better for us to wait till we were in a place where we could try things and see where it goes . Um So the first thing is I wouldn't rely on language to do it . It would be more of a , making a suggestion of something that's actionable .