Great music producers are often recognised for a unique sound that only they are capable of achieving. Rick Rubin is known for that and for something else: for creating a space in which artists of different genres and traditions can reconnect with their deepest identity and what they truly have to offer the world. Rubin has made it a practice to help people transcend self-imposed expectations and reconnect with a state of innocence where the surprising becomes inevitable.

Over the years, Rubin has thought a lot about where creativity comes from and where it doesn't, and has learned that being an artist depends not so much on a particular outcome, but on how we relate to the world. Creativity has a place in everyone's life and we can all make that space bigger. In fact, there are few human responsibilities that are more important than that.

The act of creating is a beautiful and generous course that illuminates the artist's path as a route we can all follow. This book distils the wisdom gleaned from a lifetime's work into a luminous reading experience that has the power to create moments - and lives - of joy and transcendence within everyone's reach.