Rick Rubin recounts telling a hospitalised friend: ‘You just hit the reset button’

What was said

"And I went in and I looked down and I said, again, I don't know where this came from, but it came. I said, "This may be hard for you to see right now, but you're in the sweet spot.""

Rick Rubin describes visiting a friend in hospital during a severe personal crisis and hearing earlier visitors speak “as if he had died”. Rubin says he told the friend, “This may be hard for you to see right now, but you're in the sweet spot,” and framed the moment as a “reset button” that could free him from obligations he hated and allow him to start over.