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This reminds me of Rick Rubin's new debut book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, that came out recently.

It contains a lot of musings on different ways to cultivate creativity, among many other related topics. He discusses ideas to avoid pruning creative branches too early, in the same way this post does. It's an important point, avoiding filtering out potential ideas too soon is essential to the creative process.

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That strikes me as backwards. I have lots and lots of creative ideas, the problem is feeling passionate about any of them long enough to continue working on any of them when the next interesting idea comes along.

I've learned to prune them constantly and only pay any significant attention to the ones that keep growing back.

Have you found that book to be helpful in actually cultivating creativity? I started reading it a week back because I saw it's been massively popular and wondered if it's actually going to be of much help to most of the readers. Perhaps it gets much better after the first short bit I read.

His conversation with Rogan was fantastic on this. Probably one of the best interviews I have seen about the creative process. The genius of Rubin is in his honesty about what he enjoys, and recognizing it in others and drawing it out.

Just like something, then do things that make you feel the same way..

I feel like I'd take anything Rubin says with a huge grain of salt. He has built up a mythology about him, but several artists have complained about him from being either too controlling in terms of applying the same style he applies to everything or nowhere to be found in the recording process. He honestly doesn't seem all that creative to me and seems to be a bit tunnel visioned.

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