El Acto de Crear / The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"Great music producers are often recognized for a unique sound that only they are capable of achieving. Rick Rubin is known for that and for something more: for knowing how to create a space in which artists of different genres and traditions reconnect with their deep identity and with what they really have to offer the world. Rubin has made practice of his drive to help people transcend self-imposed expectations and reconnect with a state of innocence in which the surprising becomes inevitable. Over the years, Rubin has thought a lot about where creativity comes from: where it comes from and where it doesn't, and has learned that being an artist depends not so much on a particular outcome, but on how we relate to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone's life and we can all make that space bigger. In fact, there are few human responsibilities that are more important than that The act of creating is a beautiful and generous course that illuminates the artist's path as a route we can all follow. This book distills the wisdom gathered from a lifetime's work and turns it into a luminous reading experience that has the power to create moments--and lives--of joy and transcendence within everyone's reach"--