Rick Rubin

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Rick Rubin is a record producer and co-founder of Def Jam Recordings who has worked with artists from Johnny Cash and the Beastie Boys to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Adele. He is the author of The Creative Act: A Way of Being.

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The Creative Act

Rick Rubin is a music producer who co-founded Def Jam Recordings and has spent four decades shaping records for artists as different as the Beastie Boys, Johnny Cash, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Adele. He is famous less for a signature sound than for helping artists find their own.

In The Creative Act, Rick Rubin distills what he has learned into a set of short meditations on where ideas come from and how to make room for them. His surprising claim is that creativity is not a talent a few people have but a way of living that anyone can practice. You’ll learn why attention matters more than technique, how to keep a beginner’s eyes, why the audience should come last, and how to finish work and let it go.

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