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Rick Rubin: Modern Master Of The Creative Act

The Rich Roll Podcast

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The Muse Versus Source

Stephen Pressfield calls it the muse. This is the place from which we can extract inspirations, those ideas and channel them through the artist into creating something that lives and breathes in the world. I believe it happens all the time for everyone if they're paying attention. If you're open to the communication, we're getting information all the time. There's so much more information coming at us than we can digest. We pick and choose unconsciously certain data points, and then based on those data points, we make up a story about what happens. It might not come, maybe none of it comes from inside of us. Maybe it all comes from outside of us.

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