Timeless advice for creators
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Rick Rubin on Creative Habits
If you want more creative inspiration, develop your creative habits.
Here are three insights from music producer Rick Rubin for setting up habits and routines that consistently support your creative work. These are all from his book, The Creative Act.
Organize your life to allow for creative space.
Space in your schedule to create doesn’t just happen. To guard consistent, extended time for creating takes disciplined effort. “Discipline and freedom seem like opposites. Discipline is not a lack of freedom, it is a harmonious relationship with time. Managing your schedule and daily habits well is a necessary component to free up the practical and creative capacity to make great art.” (135)
Rubin even says that organizing your life is more important than being efficient in your work. Your focused efficiency in life can open the space to be creatively messy.