Rick Rubin | Notion

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meditation
- Zen, Buddhism, Beginner's Mind
being present
everyone is an artist
follow your heart, trust your intuition, dare to feel
- you don’t need to know anything, you don’t need to understand why
your personal taste is as good as anyone’s personal taste
put your ego aside, listen to people’s ideas, question things
- be a recorder
- deep listening / active listening
put something brutal in your day-to-day routine so that all else may happen to you in life is easy in comparison

e.g. ice bath, sauna, hard workouts

Stoicism
have the humbleness to keep your own mouth shout and instead squeeze the best out of other artists/people
❤️‍🔥 Fight Club, 🎴 Minimalism
- focus on the core essence
- simplify to allow the true emotional and artistic message to shine through
do things that are authentic to yourself; people love it when they see your personal connection in your art btw
- Naval
read books
tune external opinions and critics out, protect your authentic self
- spend time alone
- be genuine even if it means breaking away from commercial trends
intimacy is important for authenticity, for the best conversations, for the best creation of art
- “a place where you’re comfortable to be naked — a place where you can be your most vulnerable without questioning it”
- Flow
- to be feeling that you’re not performing for an audience but engaged in connecting with the other person or creating whatever art you’re creating
- “real relationships are dual” — Galimberti
- harder to achieve when there are mics and cameras
- Advice for young people
  - How to Do What You Love
- if it could be better, it’s not done — if you haven’t done everything you could’ve to make it the best it can be, it’s not done
  - Art is never finished, only abandoned.
  - John Legend – All of Me
  - “no regret looking back”
- “everything we make is kind of a diary entry, a snapshot in time”
  - “once it’s good enough, share it with people”
I realized recently that what one thinks about in the shower in the morning is more important than I’d thought. I knew it was a good time to have ideas. Now I’d go further: now I’d say it’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.