I Was Here: The Echo of Our Existence

Creativity runs through our veins as naturally as blood. Yet somewhere along the way, many of us lose touch with this essential part of ourselves, believing the creative arts belong only to "talented" individuals. In today's episode, I share a captivating excerpt from Rick Rubin's book "The Creative Act: A Way of Being" that challenges this limiting belief.

Rubin, a legendary producer who has worked with countless musical artists, offers a perspective that resonates deeply: our creative impulses aren't optional but instinctual, like turtles instinctively moving toward the ocean after hatching. When we deny these impulses, we feel dispirited, disconnected from our nature. Whether you're painting a masterpiece or doodling in a notebook, each creative act declares "I was here" to the world.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Let it Be Easy with Susie Moore Lately.
My friends, one book I havejust been loving is Rick Rubin's
book.
Rick Rubin is really famous inthe creative space, working with

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lots of musical artists overthe years.
I certainly recommend followinghim online.
I love his advice.
I feel like he's deeplyconnected to himself and his
book.
Let me just check the titlehere.
The Creative Act, A Way of being, is just, it is precious, and

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the chapters are very short, andI wanted to read one to you
today because, no matter whatyou do for work or who you
believe yourself to be, I knowthat every single being is a
creative being.
Look at children, look at thechild version of yourself.

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If you revisit your childhood,even in your mind momentarily,
you will probably remembercreating things, building things
, drawing things, imaginingthings, and in his book it's on
page 391, if you've got the bookitself, Rick Rubin has a
chapter called why Make Art, andI have to say you know, one

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question I love to ask people ishow fulfilled they feel in
their lives day to day.
As a life coach, that's a greatquestion to ask when it comes
to understanding how people feel, Because on the outside someone
may appear to have everything.
But what counts this we knowisn't what's external, it's

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what's internal and how we feel.
And I believe that creativityactive creativity is a huge part
of our fulfillment.
So I'm going to read it to youhere why make art?
Ultimately, the act ofself-expression isn't really

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about you.
Most who choose the artist'spath don't have a choice.
We feel compelled to engage, asif by some primal instinct, the
same force that calls turtlestowards the sea after hatching
in the sand.
We follow this instinct.
To deny it is dispiriting, asif we are in violation of nature

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.
If we zoom out, we see thisblind impulse is always there,
guiding our aim beyond ourselves.
In the moment when we feel thework is taking shape, there's a

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dynamic surge followed by anurge to share in the hopes of
replicating that mysteriousemotional charge in others.
This is the call toself-express our creative
purpose.
It's not necessarily tounderstand ourselves or to be
understood.
We share our filter, our way ofseeing, in order to spark an
echo in others.
Art is a reverberation of animpermanent life.
As human beings, we come and goquickly and we get to make

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works that stand as monuments toour time here.
Enduring affirmations ofexistence Michelangelo's David,
the first cave paintings, achild's finger paint landscape.
They all echo the same humancry, like graffiti scrawled in a
bathroom stall.

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I was here.
When you contribute your pointof view to the world, others can
see it.
It's refracted through theirfilter and distributed again.
This process is continuous andongoing.
Taken all together, it createswhat we experience as reality.

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Every work, no matter howtrivial it may seem, plays a
role in this greater cycle.
The world continually unfolds,Nature renews itself, Art
evolves.
Each of us has our own way ofseeing this world, and this can
lead to feelings of isolation.

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Art has an ability to connectus beyond the limitations of
language.
Through this, we get to faceour inner worlds outward, remove
the boundaries of separationand participate in the great
remembering of what we all cameinto this life knowing there is

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no separation.
We are one.
My friends, I was here Untiltomorrow.
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