A Quora Question About Paul McCartney Reveals An Essential -- But Critical -- Mistake Made By "Most" People

 

With all his billions in earnings why has Paul McCartney continued to write, sing, and record and have record sales?

I went to a Paul McCartney concert in 2018. McCartney put on a great show, but there are two moments from it in particular that I will never forget.

First, after playing a song he'd written for Nancy Shevelle, he took a breath, said “And I wrote this one for Linda,” (his late first wife) and seamlessly launched into a rendition of “Maybe I'm Amazed” that blew the doors off the arena. The other moment came when he was introducing another number. He declared it was off the new record, that he knew nobody in the audience was there to hear him perform that song, but he didn't care, he wanted to play it, so whatever track off “Egypt Station” he wanted to play that night, he played.

The whole concert was wonderful, but those two moments in particular stick out in my head.

So yes, Paul McCartney is fantastically wealthy and could just lie on his sofa watching TV all day if he wanted to. However, he does not want to. He wants to keep writing, recording, and playing, and I suspect he'll keep at it as long as he's able to.

Alan: Most people are so removed from the creative process -- however creativity might manifest -- that they cannot imagine a goal greater than early retirement, followed by lounging on the sofa all day, clicking the remote. 

Surely, our educational system can figure out a way to ensure that every child has enough exposure to a sufficiently wide range of creative endeavors so that s/he can -- and WILL -- discover a skill that it is not just useful, but INSPIRING.