The other night I finished The Creative Act: A way Of Being, a very hyped book from a well known creative guru named Rick Rubin. He has that X factor we all wish for and so of course when he released a book sharing his supposed “way of being” we all went nuts for it.

It seems that everyone sites passages from this book that pertain more to the inspiration and creation stage. These are the good parts and the ones we tend to romanticise.

The stage I’m defending is the output stage - this one is shied away from and sometimes even shunned as being either not a part of someone process at all due to “not caring about anyone seeing/hearing/reading it” or out of fear it won’t live up to expectations, be received well or it’s deemed not good enough by the artist so they hold onto it a bit longer.

I go into detail on my thoughts and Rubin’s, and I was happy to read he was in favour of putting your art out there!

If you don’t have the book you can grab it here or at your local bookstore of course. I do highly recommend it and I have much more content to come surrounding both how to use the book an also helpful tack on thoughts that bounce off select chapters.

It’s so lovely to share these musings with you all and I hope you enjoy either listening or watching this weeks episode.

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