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Rick Rubin

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The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

I think probably quality time in nature with my family. That's probably the best. Being in a beautiful place, being close to my family, breathing fresh air, walking on the beach, laughing together, reading together, watching movies together, you know, watching wrestling. I like pro wrestling. Yeah, of course. Pro wrestling with my son's fun.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

I think probably quality time in nature with my family. That's probably the best. Being in a beautiful place, being close to my family, breathing fresh air, walking on the beach, laughing together, reading together, watching movies together, you know, watching wrestling. I like pro wrestling. Yeah, of course. Pro wrestling with my son's fun.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

always been pro wrestling. UFC feels like they might hurt each other.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

always been pro wrestling. UFC feels like they might hurt each other.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

That's why I like wrestling. It's like it's more everybody's on the same side for it to be the best show.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

That's why I like wrestling. It's like it's more everybody's on the same side for it to be the best show.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

A lot. Because it's a world where you never really know what's true. It's a world of mystery. And great skill is involved in what they're doing. And there's a story. And it's a story sometimes of people who seem to hate each other. Do they hate each other? They might be best friends. You know, it's like, we don't know, but sometimes they really do hate each other.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

A lot. Because it's a world where you never really know what's true. It's a world of mystery. And great skill is involved in what they're doing. And there's a story. And it's a story sometimes of people who seem to hate each other. Do they hate each other? They might be best friends. You know, it's like, we don't know, but sometimes they really do hate each other.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

And then the matches are different when they really hate each other. But you never know when it is. So there's a sense of, and I think it's more honest than any other form of any other sport or any other form of entertainment. See, it's funny I say it's the only legitimate sport is pro wrestling because it's the most like the world. In the world, we don't really know what's true.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

And then the matches are different when they really hate each other. But you never know when it is. So there's a sense of, and I think it's more honest than any other form of any other sport or any other form of entertainment. See, it's funny I say it's the only legitimate sport is pro wrestling because it's the most like the world. In the world, we don't really know what's true.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

Everybody has a facade. People put on, you know, airs or a performance. A mask.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

Everybody has a facade. People put on, you know, airs or a performance. A mask.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

Or the politician talks and we don't really know who they are. They say these things that are often written for them. We don't know. So there's this like performative aspect of the world. that wrestling, that's what the world's really like. We say that, you know, wrestling is fake. It's like the world is fake and wrestling is real. That's what it is.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

Or the politician talks and we don't really know who they are. They say these things that are often written for them. We don't know. So there's this like performative aspect of the world. that wrestling, that's what the world's really like. We say that, you know, wrestling is fake. It's like the world is fake and wrestling is real. That's what it is.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

It's something that I've experienced before I knew what it was. So when I say it's like... I feel like it has to do with the purity of the intention behind what you're doing. If your intention is pure and you're doing it for the right reasons, it seems like things tend to work out. And that ends up being a manifestation mindset, but it didn't start for me that way.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

It's something that I've experienced before I knew what it was. So when I say it's like... I feel like it has to do with the purity of the intention behind what you're doing. If your intention is pure and you're doing it for the right reasons, it seems like things tend to work out. And that ends up being a manifestation mindset, but it didn't start for me that way.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

It just was like, I really believe in what I'm doing. I really care about it. I want it to be the best it could be for me, and I'm excited to share it. And the results have shown me that you can manifest things. It happens. But I'll say when I do it, it's never based on the outcome. Ooh, what do you mean? I'm never asking for a result. What are you asking for?

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

It just was like, I really believe in what I'm doing. I really care about it. I want it to be the best it could be for me, and I'm excited to share it. And the results have shown me that you can manifest things. It happens. But I'll say when I do it, it's never based on the outcome. Ooh, what do you mean? I'm never asking for a result. What are you asking for?

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

I'm asking to rise to the occasion, to make the best thing that I can, for the thing that I make to be great. Great is a vague word. I don't know what great means. I came to realize recently what great means, but I didn't know. Most of my life I was aiming for great, but I didn't know what that was. And I've come to realize that great means it's a devotional kind of greatness.

The School of Greatness
How To Unlock Your Creativity & Access Your Visionary Mind

I'm asking to rise to the occasion, to make the best thing that I can, for the thing that I make to be great. Great is a vague word. I don't know what great means. I came to realize recently what great means, but I didn't know. Most of my life I was aiming for great, but I didn't know what that was. And I've come to realize that great means it's a devotional kind of greatness.