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Here are the creativity lessons I learned from Rick Rubin by reading: Rick Rubin In The Studio, by Jake Brown---Download the Bonus Printable POSTER for FREE here---⁠ICONS is now on YouTube - check it out!⁠---Art mentioned:​"Problem Child" (song by AC/DC)​Highway to Hell (album by AC/DC)​"Rick Rubin, In The Studio" (book by Jake Brown)​The Midnight Special (TV show)​Iron Man films​Magna Carta Holy Grail (album by Jay-Z)​"Berzerk" (song by Eminem)​"Mastery" (book by Robert Greene)​"It's Yours" (song by T La Rock)​Flower Boy (album by Tyler, the Creator)​IGOR (album by Tyler, the Creator)​To Pimp A Butterfly (album by Kendrick Lamar)​"Happy" (song by Pharrell Williams)​"The Runaway Species" (book by Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman)​"I Need a Beat" (song by LL Cool J)​Krush Groove (film)​Radio (album by LL Cool J)​Lemonade (visual album by Beyoncé)​"Walk This Way" (song by Aerosmith/Run-DMC)​The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (album by Red Hot Chili Peppers)​"Ring of Fire" (song by Johnny Cash)​American Recordings (album by Johnny Cash)​Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (album)---Chapters:00:00:00 How One Piece of Work Can Change Your Life00:03:07 Rick Rubin, The Icon00:05:49 Growing Up with AC/DC and Magic00:14:00 Attending NYU (Enter Hip-Hop)00:17:29 Producing a New Kind of Single00:22:25 The Birth of Def Jam00:29:57 Launching LL Cool J and a Movie00:38:41 How Rick Rubin Works00:40:22 Working with RUN-DMC00:46:40 Working with Red Hot Chili Peppers00:59:14 Working with Johnny Cash01:10:10 Aim for Greatness

What creative insights I learned from Al Pacino by reading: Sonny Boy, a Memoir. --- ⁠⁠Download the Bonus PDF (Al Pacino’s Best Performance + Insights Summary) here --- ICONS is now on YouTube - check it out! --- Art mentioned Home Sweet Homicide — Theatre Production Pulp Fiction, 1994 — Film Creditors — Theatre Production Dog Day Afternoon, 1975 — Film The Indian Wants the Bronx — Theatre Production Serpico, 1973 — Film Sea of Love, 1989 — Film Carlito’s Way, 1993 — Film Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? — Theatre Production The Godfather, 1972 — Film The Godfather — Book …And Justice For All, 1979 — Film The Godfather, Part 2, 1974 — Film Scarface, 1932 — Film Scarface, 1983 — Film Wall Street, 1987 — Film Platoon, 1987 — Film JFK, 1991 — Film Natural Born Killers, 1995 — Film Any Given Sunday, 1999 — Film Mission Impossible, 1996 — Film Heat, 1995 — Film The Godfather, Part 3, 1990 — Film Richard III — Theatre Play Looking for Richard, 1996 — Film --- To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow ⁠@theICONSpod on Twitter⁠ or ⁠ICONS podcast on LinkedIn⁠. --- Chapters 00:00:00 Life's on the Wire 00:01:24 Al Pacino as an ICON 00:07:52 Life Has Two Paths (Street Life) 00:17:33 The Other Path (Acting) 00:29:09 The Collaborators 00:44:37 Making The Godfather 00:56:05 Making Scarface 01:08:18 What Keeps Coming Back To You 01:20:56 The Greatest Word In English Language

What creative insights I learned from Bruce Lee by reading: Bruce Lee, A Life, by Matthew Polly. --- ⁠⁠Download the Bonus PDF (Bruce Lee's Unmade Script + Insights Summary) here --- Check out the visual experience of this episode on YouTube now! --- Art mentioned: Bruce Lee Screen Test (1965) — Video The Children’s Paradise — Comic Book #2 - Hayao Miyazaki — ICONS Episode My Son-A-Chang — Film An Orphan’s Tragedy — Film Sins of the Father — Film In the Face of Demolition — Film The Guiding Light — Film #1 - 50 Cent — ICONS Episode The Art of Learning, Josh Waitzkin — Book The Mind, Explored — Newsletter The Orphan — Film 1000 True Fans, Kevin Kelly — Essay Batman — TV Series The Green Hornet — TV Series Once Upon A Time In Hollywood — Movie Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu — Book Longstreet — TV Series Bruce Lee Pierre Berton Interview — Video The Big Boss — Film Fist of Fury — Film The Way of The Dragon — Film Game of Death — Film Enter the Dragon — Film --- To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow ⁠@theICONSpod on Twitter⁠ or ⁠ICONS podcast on LinkedIn⁠. --- Chapters 00:00:00 How Bruce Lee was Found by Hollywood 00:01:41 Bruce Lee as an ICON 00:05:33 The Many Names of Bruce Lee (The Child Star) 00:18:28 Bad School Kid (Fighting) 00:25:14 Martial Arts - Wing Chun 00:38:52 Moving to the US and Cha-Cha 00:48:41 America & Teaching Wing Chun 01:02:52 What Robin was to Batman 01:13:59 Jeet Kune Do 01:21:44 Longstreet 01:29:09 The Hong Kong Films 01:41:38 Hollywood’s New Man: Enter the Dragon 01:49:54 The Passing 01:54:11 The Icon (Bruce Lee's Legacy)

BONUS EPISODE: How to turn your early-career frustrations into a great career. What I learned from reading the 2008 blog post, The Canvas Strategy, and Ego is the Enemy, by Ryan Holiday. --- ⁠ICONS is now on YouTube! - Check it out⁠ --- ⁠⁠Download the Bonus PDF (Canvas Strategy Checklist) here --- Art mentioned: The Canvas Strategy, Ryan Holiday — Blog post Perennial Seller, Ryan Holiday — Book The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene — Book Mastery, Robert Greene — Book The Laws of Human Nature, Robert Greene — Book The Baptism of Christ, Verrochio (Leonardo Da Vinci) — Painting The 50th Law, Robert Greene — Book The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi — Book --- To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow ⁠@theICONSpod on Twitter⁠ or ⁠ICONS podcast on LinkedIn⁠.

What creative insights I learned from Christopher Nolan by reading: The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan, by Tom Shone. ---- ⁠⁠Download the Bonus PDF (Christopher Nolan’s Best Work + Insights Summary) here⁠⁠ ---- Art mentioned: Inception — Film Christopher Nolan, Founders Podcast — Podcast Memento — Film #6 - Coco Chanel — ICONS Podcast Episode 2001: A Space Odyssey — Film Blade Runner — Film Alien — Film Star Wars — Film Day in the Life of a Knife Maker — YouTube Interstellar — Film First Man — Film The Place Beyond The Pines — Film Drive — Film Blade Runner 2049 — Film The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy — Book Batman Begins — Film The Dark Knight — Film The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes The World — Book Las Meninas, Piccaso — Paintings Why So Serious? (The Joker Theme), Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard — Music #5 - Charlie Chaplin — ICONS Podcast Episode Samson and Delilah, Rubens — Painting Following — Film Pulp Fiction — Film Reservoir Dogs — Film Citizen Kane — Film Tenet — Film The Italian Job — Film Ocean’s Eleven — Film A Fistful of Dollars — Film Oppenheimer — Film American Prometheus — Book Clear Thinking, Shane Parrish — Book Searching for Bobby Fischer — Film Hard Eight — Film Bottle Rocket — Film The Prestige — Film Casino Royale — Film How To Do Great Work, Paul Graham — Essay Westworld, HBO — TV Show ---- ⁠ICONS is now on YouTube! - Check it out⁠ ---- To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow ⁠@theICONSpod on Twitter⁠ or ⁠ICONS podcast on LinkedIn⁠.

What creative insights I learned from Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel by reading: Coco Chanel - The Legend and The Life, by Justine Picardie The Laws of Human Nature, Robert Greene ---- Download the Bonus PDF (Coco Chanel's best work + insight summary) here ----⁠⁠ Art mentioned: Patterned paved corridors of Abbey, Aubazine Interlocking knot and loops in window, Aubazine La Pausa staircase side-by-side with Aubazine Abbey Qui Qu’a Vu Coco — Song Chanel logo in Mayfair lamppost Palmy Days (1931) — Film Chanel No. 5 — Perfume #5 - Charlie Chaplin — ICONS Podcast Episode #1 - 50 Cent — ICONS Podcast Episode Lululemon ‘Dupe Swap’ Campaign Westworld, HBO — TV Show ---- ICONS is now on YouTube! - Check it out ---- To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow ⁠@theICONSpod on Twitter⁠ or ⁠ICONS podcast on LinkedIn⁠.

What creative insights I learned from Charlie Chaplin by reading his autobiography. ---⁠⁠- Download the Bonus PDF (Chaplin’s Best Work + Insights Summary) here ---⁠⁠- Art mentioned: The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene — Book How To Make Movies, Charlie Chaplin — Short Film #4 - Leonardo Da Vinci — ICONS Podcast The Kid, Charlie Chaplin (1921) — Film City Lights, Charlie Chaplin (1931) — Film Devil Wears Prada (2006) — Film Heat (1995) — Film #3 - Anthony Bourdain — ICONS The Idle Class (1921), Charlie Chaplin — Film Modern Times (1936), Charlie Chaplin — Film Morning Pages Journal, Julia Cameron — Book #2 - Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli) — ICONS Mad Men (2008)— TV Show ---- ICONS is now on YouTube! - Check it out⁠ ---- To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow ⁠@theICONSpod on Twitter⁠ or ⁠ICONS podcast on LinkedIn⁠.

Ideas I got from artist Leonardo Da Vinci from reading: Leonardo Da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson Mastery, by Robert Greene ---- ⁠Download the Bonus PDF (Da Vinci's Best Work + His Letter to Ludovico Sforza + Insights Summary) here⁠ ---- Art mentioned: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Walter Isaacson — Book Einstein, Walter Isaacson — Book Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson— Book Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson — Book Mona Lisa, Da Vinci — Painting The Last Supper, Da Vinci — Painting Assassin's Creed 2 — Video Game Drapery Drawing from Verrocchio's Workshop Relevance Realisation, John Vervake — Cognitive Science Problem The Baptism of Christ, by Verrocchio & Da Vinci — Painting The Flying Man — Model in Rome Airport Map of Imola, Da Vinci — Map The Grotesques, Da Vinci — Sketches The Vitruvian Man, Da Vinci — Drawing Memento, Christopher Nolan — Film Saint Jerome In The Wilderness, Da Vinci — Painting ---- ICONS is now on YouTube! - Check it out⁠ ---- To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow @theICONSpod on Twitter or ICONS podcast on LinkedIn.

Ideas I got from artist Anthony Bourdain from reading: Laurie Woolever’s unique book, ⁠Bourdain in Stories⁠. and watching Morgan Neville'documentary, ⁠Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain⁠. ---- Download the Bonus PDF (Bourdain's Best Work + Insights Summary) here ---- Art mentioned: Parts Unknown — TV Series, 2013-2018 Anthony Bourdain’s Moveable Feast — New Yorker Profile, 2007 Don’t Eat before Reading This — New Yorker Essay, 1999 Kitchen Confidential — Non-Fiction Book, 2001 Bone In The Throat — Fiction Book, 1995 Gone Bamboo — Fiction Book, 1997 The Adventures of Tintin — Comic Series, 1929- Close Encounters of the Third Kind — Film, 1977 The Deer Hunter — Film, 1979 The Long Goodbye — Film, 1973 A Cook’s Tour — TV Series, 2002-2003 Not Economically Viable — YouTube Channel Apocalypse Now — Film, 1979 Heart of Darkness — Book, 1899 The Big Short — Film, 2015 Succession — TV Series, 2018–2023 No Reservations — TV Series, 2005-2012 Violent City — Film, 1970 Princess Mononoke — Film, 1997 ---- ICONS is now on YouTube! - Check it out⁠ ---- To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow ⁠@theICONSpod on Twitter⁠ or ⁠ICONS podcast on LinkedIn⁠.

Ideas I got from artist Hayao Miyazaki from reading Miyazakiworld, A Life In Art, by Susan Napier. ---- ⁠Download the bonus PDF (Hayao Miyazaki's best art + summary) here ---- Art mentioned: The Last Samurai — Film, 2003 Spirited Away — Film, 2001 My Neighbour Totoro — Film, 1988 Princess Mononoke — Film, 1997 Howl's Moving Castle — Film, 2004 Ponyo — Film, 2008 The Boy and The Heron — Film, 2023 9 Shots — Song, 50 Cent The Wind Rises — Film, 2013 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — Film, 1984 Laputa: Castle in the Sky — Film, 1986 The Count of Monte Cristo — Book, Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers — Book, Alexandre Dumas The Prisoner of Zenda — Book, Anthony Hope Gulliver's Travels — Book, Jonathan Swift The Secret Garden — Book, Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett Heidi — Book, Jeanne Willis Panda and the Magic Serpent — Film, 1958 ---- ICONS is now on YouTube! - Check it out⁠ ---- To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow ⁠@theICONSpod on Twitter⁠ or ⁠ICONS podcast on LinkedIn⁠.

Ideas I got from artist 50 Cent from reading: The 50th Law, by Robert Greene Hustle Harder Hustle Smarter, by Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson ---- Download the bonus PDF (50 Cent's best art) here ---- Art mentioned: Get Rich or Die Tryin' — Album, 50 Cent The Massacre — Album, 50 Cent Power of the Dollar — Album, 50 Cent Bike Lanes — Short Film, Casey Neistat Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee — TV Series, Jerry Seinfeld F*ck You — Song, 50 Cent Guess Who's Back — Mixtape, 50 Cent High All The Time — Song, 50 Cent In Da Club — Song, 50 Cent 50 Cent Is The Future — Mixtape, 50 Cent No Mercy, No Fear — Mixtape, 50 Cent God's Plan — Mixtape, 50 Cent Crenshaw — Mixtape, Nipsey Hussle Power — TV Show, G-Unit Films and Television Inc. ---- ICONS is now on YouTube! - Check it out⁠ ---- To learn from artists not covered in the podcast: Follow ⁠@theICONSpod on Twitter⁠ or ⁠ICONS podcast on LinkedIn⁠.