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Competition between artists looks strange to Rick Rubin. Michael Jackson and Prince do two different things. Kanye West and Drake have no competition either, since what each of them gives is totally different. Rubin wouldn't want from Drake what he gets from Kanye, or the other way around. Which one is more creative is for the listener to decide.
Everything an artist makes is a diary entry, a personal expression of how they see the world. Nobody can read your diary and tell you it's wrong, or not good enough, or not how you see things. The reason to show it is to say this is how I see it, and the viewer finds the world is bigger than they thought.
Competition also makes people quit things they could improve at. Someone can know they could get better at baseball without ever being good enough to play for the Mets, and decide the sport is not for them and shut it off anyway. Anything you're interested in can be trained and improved.
Why does comparing yourself to others make people quit?
The psychologist Leon Festinger proposed social comparison theory in 1954. He argued that people judge their own abilities by measuring themselves against others, especially those who seem close to them. When the comparison is unflattering and the gap looks wide, people often lose interest in the activity. A person can stop a pursuit that they were improving at because someone else is further ahead.
How big were Michael Jackson and Prince at their peaks?
Jackson's 1982 album Thriller is widely cited as the best-selling album of all time. Prince's 1984 album Purple Rain, which accompanied his film of the same name, sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. Both artists played, sang, and arranged much of their own music. Prince performed at the Super Bowl XLI halftime show in 2007.
Why do old diaries still read as great writing?
Samuel Pepys kept a diary from 1660 to 1669, and it remains one of the best eyewitness accounts of the era, including the Great Fire of London in 1666. The diary was not meant for publication and was first printed in the nineteenth century. Its value comes from the specific details and the writer's own voice. Anne Frank's diary, published in 1947, is read the same way.
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