This is Rick Rubin: 8 Insights that Transformed My Life.
This is Rick Rubin.
The most acclaimed music producer in the world.
But he’s not a master of music, he’s actually a master of presence.
Here’s 8 of his insights that radically transformed my creative expression (and will soon transform your life too):
To preface, this is why Rick Rubin is a master of presence:
He’s emotionally fluid.
He fully embraces the sensations of the present, and from that place he holds a radical amount of space for creativity to take shape.
In fact, He IS the space.
Now, let's dive in.
1. Expanding your Narrative
The level of joy, freedom, and success you experience in life is a direct reflection of 2 things:
who you think yourself to be
how you communicate with yourself.
A small self-story creates a limited life. Expansive stories create possibility.
There is so much more available to us in our:
creativity
relationships
and business
because we always have the choice to change.
Embody the emotions that create the deepest connection to yourself.
The ways this will impact your life are innumerable.
full video here - credit to: Dr Rangan Chatterjee
2. Conscious Language
We falsely believe that language is descriptive (as in we describe the world around us).
Conversely, language is creative.
We are constantly creating our relationship to the world around us through language.
Abracadabra literally translates to "as I speak, so I create."
Our latent potential becomes available to us when we consciously use language to expand our self-concept, rather than to constrict it.
Eradicate words like:
can’t
should
could
would
These words create separation from our desire as opposed to intimacy.
full video here - credit to: Dr Rangan Chatterjee
3. The Art of Deep Listening
This is our greatest superpower.
It creates the space for us to attune most deeply with the present moment.
Listening creates new depths of aliveness, and this creates a radically enhanced sense of clarity in your mission and your work.
But nobody teaches us to effectively listen.
The challenge of deep listening is this:
You must set aside the idea of who you think you are in order to listen without all the filters of identity bias.
True listening is being completely present in the absence of that identity.
full video here - credit to: Dr Rangan Chatterjee
4. Surrendering Control
Control only creates a good version of a limited self.
Control is designed to minimize potential failure but at the cost of repressed success and freedom.
Higher level outcomes require surrendering your idea of how you think it all should be.
You are the steward of the creation, but the creation itself is greater than just you.
The more you can trust uncertainty, the more you create space for your expectations to be shattered in the best regards.
Get out of your own way.
full video here - credit to: Dr Rangan Chatterjee
5. Pattern Interrupt.
We can’t see the picture when we are standing in the frame.
Whether it be creating:
the not-so-simple farm life with your family
the thriving creative business
the BIG vision
It's crucial to step back, slow down, and get curious about the frame.
We get lost in the pursuit of getting somewhere, but in reality we are only ever exactly where we are.
SO we need to re-frame the way we are relating to:
ourselves
to time
to our work
to see more clearly how the pieces of the puzzle are naturally coming together.
full video here - credit to: Dr Rangan Chatterjee
6. Audience last is Audience 1st
The pursuit of audience approval gets in between us and the magic we want to welcome into our work.
They can co-exist,
but it begins by first attuning deeply to what feels nourishing and curious to you right now - and creating from that place.
full video here - credit to: Dr Rangan Chatterjee
7. We are all artists
Even if you don’t believe it - You’re a Godd*mn Artist!
Realizing this will lead to:
relating to everyone around you more deeply
creating more impactful work
enriching your relationship with yourself
Creativity is your nature, so remember it.
full video here - credit to: Dr Rangan Chatterjee
8. Experimental Devotion
You can’t know what you don’t know yet.
Discovering new depths of:
creativity
emotion
and pure possibility
demands you to explore your natural curiosities.
Sometimes you have to go too far to discover what feels best.
Success is found through experimentation.
It’s energy is a constant evolution.
To sustain success we have to dance with success and look at it from new angles.
Success without contrast is like water without flow, it grows stagnant.
full video here - credit to: Dr Rangan Chatterjee
