The Creative Act: Thoughtforms & Innerworks

The Creative Act: Thoughtforms & Innerworks

Break the Conventions

Study then subvert

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Rick Rubin
May 11, 2026
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Pick an area that you’re interested in, and learn all of the accepted rules of that form. Study the form long enough to see the patterns that recur time and time again. Once you recognize what those patterns are, make something breaking those rules.

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