Aishani Chatterjee

On awareness and curiosity - Rick Rubin

It seems the awareness practices in meditation are probably the best way to get there. And once you have an awareness practice, expanding it from the meditation cushion into the world, to where you’re living in a constant state of awareness.

The beauty of the awareness practice in meditation is you get the

Vessel and Filter - Rick Rubin

The vessel is the part of us that holds everything that we’ve seen over the course of our lives. And the vessel contains things that we collect and things that get in there without us knowing.

So we may have learned a lesson from a teacher or an adult when we were young and that got stored in the vessel. And it may be

Taste - who am I - Rick Rubin

And I continue to allow whatever is interesting to me in that moment. And whatever is interesting to me in the moment usually has other things with it. It may impact what I’m reading. It may impact the people I’m talking to. I try my best to stay true to who I am in the world today and doing my best to support who that

Vessel and Filter - Rick Rubin

And I can’t say mine is right and theirs is wrong. And that different experience is our filter on the world. Because we were all watching the same movie, but how it affected us was different.

Experimentation

It’s like we all do have to find our own way and find our own path. And I suggest often in the book is try to open yourself to another way than the way that you think is the way and see. Just experiment.

If you’re used to working dark, work light. If you’re used to working loud, work soft. If you’re used to working high, work low.

Change unlocks something - Rick Rubin

The idea of changing your life for a period of time, going to a new environment, experiencing a different way of living has to impact your work. It has to unlock something.

There are new things to notice. There are new feelings to be had. And it could be, if you’re city dweller, going to nature can unlock you.

On experiencing life slowly for an artist - Rick Rubin

I think when we’re moving slow, we’re stopping to experience each part. I know if I go to the beach for my morning walk and I go myself, I walk at the pace that I walk, get my heart rate up, stay consistent, listen to my podcast or audiobook, and pay attention to the things around me. I might

I talk, also, in the book about how you have to believe that something that doesn’t exist can exist to bring it into the world. If you start with the idea that it’s impossible, then it’s impossible. We believe our way into things, allowing them to come into being in the world.

And it is — for me, I have to say it’s magic because that’s my experience

Taste - Rick Rubin

“This applies to every choice we make. Not just with art, but with the friends we choose, the conversations we have, even the thoughts we reflect on. All of these aspects affect our ability to distinguish the good from the very good, very good from great.”