Rick Rubin
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I don't look at the outside.
I look inward and try to focus on what do I feel?
What am I seeing?
In the hopes that by sharing what's going on in me, it maybe resonates with someone else.
I can't predict what someone else would like.
And I don't think anybody can.
So if I'm true, authentically true to myself, that's the best chance of someone else liking something.
People like to be accepted.
People want to be accepted.
And I'm suggesting in the book that the best way to be accepted is to be yourself.
It's not to change yourself to what someone else thinks.
First of all, you don't really know what someone else thinks.
And if you're not genuine to yourself, there's like nothing is there.
It's just a projection or a mask.
It's not true.
In a sea of information, the more yours is personal,
the more it's not like hers or his or theirs.
It's yours.
There are these different points of view around us.
If we're all thinking the same thing, it's boring.