What the Beatles Tell Us About Fame

Let’s say you’re a musician, artist or actor with dreams of making it big. How do you do that?

The standard answer is: Be really excellent at your craft and you will become renowned. Sadly, it’s not that simple. Excellence is a requirement, but often it’s not enough.

Let me hold up the Beatles to explain what I’m talking about. If ever there was a group that could rise to the top on the basis of sheer creative genius, it was them.

But that’s not how it looked at first. Every record label they approached rejected them.

“The boys won’t go,” one company’s representatives said. “We know these things.” A dejected John Lennon said that they thought “that was the end.”

So how did the Beatles make it?

Source: David Brooks/nytimes.com

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