"It's very easy to have weighed too much information coming inright? So the ability to kind of adjust these venetian blinders to stay have an optimal amount of incoming information from the outside world strikes me as a very tricky balance," he says. "I think even for creatives, it's like, if you're just always like isor comedan, you's out, they're performing all the time." He adds: "The sort of big break s come from taking your foot off the gas a little bit"
Here’s another episode from our archives that we love: Rufus’s 2020 interview with Ryan Holiday, the author of “Stillness Is the Key,” who shared his tips for slowing down, calming your mind, and accessing the tranquility deep inside.