Access Your Creativity - The Ultimate Huberman Lab Pod Featuring Rick Rubin
Access Your Creativity - The Ultimate Huberman Lab Pod Featuring Rick Rubin
Science Guy Chills with Cutting Edge Record Producer
3 Hour Jam on Creativity
Fan girl here. I get my science nerd fix with the Huberman Lab Podcast It’s a weekly 2-hour Stanford Medical School lecture without having to take the MCAT.
Dr. Huberman has taken on ‘creativity’ in past pods, sharing current neuroscience understandings of the creative process, what parts of the brain are activated during creative thinking. This session, however, Andrew is more fan-boy himself, interviewing Rick Rubin, producer of some of the must successful musicians of the 90s.
Rick Rubin (@RickRubin) is one of the most renowned music producers of all time. He introduced Run DMC, created the Beastie Boys, and powered the Red Hot Chili Peppers, JayZ, Adele, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Neil Young, and many more. He is also the author of a new book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being. Let’s just say Rick made hip-hop a thing.
He is also the author of a new book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, an exploration of accessing and living in the creative process.
The discussion ranges from finding inspiration, to balancing self-doubt and anxiety. which plagues Rick at the start of a project. Rick has learned to use deadlines, eliminate distractions, and acknowledge how experiences and emotions influence the creative process.
Rick’s advice applies - of course - to the Feldenkrais Method. He is deeply embodied - his creative process is as much about curiosity of body sensation as thought. He says every project, every day is a new start. Staying present is the path to finding your way into, and staying in, the creative process. Do not break any flow once it is happening. Challenge your assumption that the way you work is the best way, simply because it is the way that you have done it before.
“The artist’s superpower is to accept that he does not know anything.
It was always in the service of: ‘I love this thing. I want something like this. No one else is making one. I have to make one.
Show up and be ready for the “something” to appear.”
“Our whole lives are reacting to things, making up a story of what we think may have happened without realizing that’s what we’re doing, and then living the rest of our lives as if that thing that we made up really happened. And we never know.
It’s all lies. Back to nature, the only truth.”
If you groove on super cool dudes talking creativity - give yourself a couple of hours to listen in on this guy chat.