The Beatles are an Executive Function nightmare

21/100 The Beatles are an Executive Function nightmare.
Like lots of people I watched The Beatles documentary “Get Back” which aired on Disney + this winter. As a long time Beatles fan I was excited about the documentary but watching it during all my Executive Function research I couldn’t help but see it through that lens. All I could think about was how Executively Dysfunctional the Beatles were. Prior to the time of this documentary The Beatles made 12 albums in 7 years, many of which are thought of as masterpieces even still today. Yet in the documentary they cannot get it together, they are late, silly, goofing off, sleeping, leaving early, fighting, and generally struggling to reach their goal of planning a concert and writing an album. It turns out that just prior to their last album and the filming of this documentary their longtime manager Brian Epstein died. He clearly played the role of the Executive Functioning brain of The Beatles. Without him to give their creative genius some structure I don’t think The Beatles would have been so prolific. Watching this, I had so many questions about the intersection between creativity and Executive Function. It was again another seed planted for this project. #100daysofefportraits #efportraits

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