Coaching practices for The Creative Act Rick Rubin S Approach to Making at Work
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- My days blur past on autopilot and when I finally sit down to make something the well is dry
- Every single thing I try feels like a referendum on whether I’m any good, so I cling to the first passable version rather than risk a worse one
- I can’t see my own work for what it actually is anymore
- I fill every empty second with a podcast, a scroll, some noise, and I’ve realized I never just let my mind go quiet and wander anymore
- I have a graveyard of projects that are ninety percent done and will never see daylight
Practices that may help
- The Creative Act: Rick Rubin’s Approach to Making
Rick Rubin’s 2023 book The Creative Act presents creativity as a practice of attention — noticing, collecting, and following what genuinely interests you — rather than a performance of originality. The practices are more phenomenological than procedural: they cultivate a particular quality of awareness from which creative work emerges. Evidence is practitioner and anecdotal; the book is a distillation of experience, not a research synthesis. - Cultivate awareness as your primary creative tool
Pay unusually close attention to what you notice, what you feel, and what catches you — these are the raw material.
The Creative Act: Rick Rubin’s Approach to Making - Experiment without attachment to outcome
Make many small experiments and treat each result as information — not as success or failure.
The Creative Act: Rick Rubin’s Approach to Making - Approach your own work with beginner’s mind
When evaluating your work, try to experience it as a stranger would — without the story of how it was made.
The Creative Act: Rick Rubin’s Approach to Making - Protect solitude and silence as creative inputs
Schedule regular time alone, away from stimulation — this is not a luxury but the condition for original thought.
The Creative Act: Rick Rubin’s Approach to Making - Treat completion as craft, not finish line
The final 20% of a project — finishing and releasing — is its own skill that must be practiced.
The Creative Act: Rick Rubin’s Approach to Making - Collect everything that resonates — without editing
Build a practice of gathering ideas, images, sounds, and fragments without evaluating whether they are "good enough."
The Creative Act: Rick Rubin’s Approach to Making - Follow genuine interest, not strategic interest
Pursue the thing that genuinely excites you — even if you cannot explain why or see how it fits.
The Creative Act: Rick Rubin’s Approach to Making - Share the process, not just the result
Show the work in progress to attract collaborators, feedback, and serendipity.
Steal Like an Artist, in Practice - Keep side projects and play
Protect a low-stakes project with no goal — the “waste” is where the real ideas surface.
Steal Like an Artist, in Practice
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Rick Rubin’s 2023 book The Creative Act presents creativity as a practice of attention — noticing, collecting, and following what genuinely interests you — rather than a performance of originality. The practices are more phenomenological than procedural: they cultivate a particular quality of awareness from which creative work emerges. Evidence is practitioner and anecdotal; the book is a distillation of experience, not a research synthesis.
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Make many small experiments and treat each result as information — not as success or failure.
Experiment without attachment to outcome
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Rick Rubin’s 2023 book The Creative Act presents creativity as a practice of attention — noticing, collecting, and following what genuinely interests you — rather than a performance of originality. The practices are more phenomenological than procedural: they cultivate a particular quality of awareness from which creative work emerges. Evidence is practitioner and anecdotal; the book is a distillation of experience, not a research synthesis.
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Rick Rubin’s 2023 book The Creative Act presents creativity as a practice of attention — noticing, collecting, and following what genuinely interests you — rather than a performance of originality. The practices are more phenomenological than procedural: they cultivate a particular quality of awareness from which creative work emerges. Evidence is practitioner and anecdotal; the book is a distillation of experience, not a research synthesis.
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