A few days ago, I was listening to Andrew Huberman and Joe Rogan talk, and a name kept coming up: Rick Rubin. Of course, I knew the name. Rick Rubin is a legendary music producer. What I didn’t really know was him—or, more accurately, the way he thinks. So I started reading and listening. And down the rabbit hole I went. What fascinated me wasn’t his extraordinary résumé or the famous people he has worked with. It was his openness. He seems genuinely interested in noticing th

Pain is never the gift. The gift is discovering that even after life cracks us, we can create something beautiful enough to let the light shine through.