
About the book
The Creative Act: A Way of Being is a book by Rick Rubin, published in 2023. This Waffle podcast explores the book across 3 episodes.
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin explores creativity as a way of paying attention to the world. This series moves from awareness and receptivity to experimentation, making decisions, and releasing finished work. Rubin's reflections connect artistic practice with uncertainty, revision, openness, and the habits that sustain a creative life. Listeners consider how to notice more, develop ideas, and begin again without reducing creativity to a productivity formula.
These episodes are AI-generated adaptations grounded in the book. Listen to the first episode here and continue the series in the Waffle app.
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