Name: How The Beatles had so many | Rick Beato and Lex Fridman
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How were the Beatles able to create some of the greatest songs of all time, all before they turned 30 years old?

I have never been able to figure that out.

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But I have a theory that because I have a theory because PA systems were so bad back then and the Beatles people scream so loudly that the Beatles thought, okay, we don't, we don't need, we can't tour anymore because we can't even hear ourselves.

And maybe because of, we have all these great late Beatles records are from 1966 on.

Just because they had bad PA systems and they had no monitors.

You know, they're in Shea Stadium, people are screaming so loudly they can't hear themselves.

They're like, okay, forget this, we can't tour.

And in that one year, like for, from August 6th, 1965, they put out Help.

Then in December 3rd, they put out Rubber Soul of 65.

Then, then August 5th, they put out Revolver.

So within 365 days they put out 3:14, I think 14 song records.

So they wrote and recorded three incredibly important records.

They were in the studio, it's like working out, they're practicing their craft every day, writing songs, trying to outdo the other ones.

And so you had the perfect thing of four supremely talented musicians, songwriters, singers, and

then the best producer you could possibly have, George Martin.

I think that when I would talk to friends that would just play in local clubs and they'd play four hour sets five nights a week and they never lost their voices because they're always working those muscles.

They were always in the studio singing every single day, doing takes.

And, and I think that that was part of it at least.

But you also have this theory that you know that the greatest productivity that musicians have is before they turn 30.

The greatest sort of creative genius that can come out of the human mind musically is before the age of 30.

Well, I think it's the same in mathematics as well.

You have this fluid intelligence versus crystallized intelligence.

Fluid intelligence up until you're about, you know, in your late twenties, thirty years old, and then crystallized.

So you're using the crystallizes, you're using your life experience to, to write things.

So you'll find that, that composers, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart wrote their most important works at the end of their lives.

Beethoven, the Late string quar, the ninth Symphony, things like that.

So they have a whole lifetime of experience that lead up to this.

They're not improvising, but things for improvising, writing pop songs and that.

I think when your mind is really most active and your brain processing speed is at its pinnacle, that this is my theory that people can come up with those kind of ideas.

I think that most jazz improvisers, not all, but

most do their best improvising before age 30, creating something new.

Yes, truly novel that that requires youth.

It's just a theory, though, but it seems to appreciate Sam.