The Creative Act - Rick Rubin

On a friend’s recommendation, I read The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin. The book is not a technical manual on creativity. It’s more of a collection of reflections on how creativity can be cultivated in daily life. Rubin writes as if in conversation, sharing insights about attention, silence, discipline, and openness to the new.

I especially liked the passages where he shows that creating is not about sudden genius, but about constant practice, about living in a way that allows ideas to flow. At times I felt some repetition, as if a few ideas were disguised and returned later.

Even so, it’s the kind of reading that provokes thought. Not a book to devour, but to open at any page and reflect. It was worth it for the inspiration it brought.