When you think of it, it's fun to ask: Which conservatory did John Lennon and Paul McCartney attend? Who gave them permission to write music? Who certified them as capable?
Lennon and McCartney simply wrote what is arguably the most successful catalog of pop songs in history, because they wanted to.
You know the story: two lads from hardscrabble Liverpool meet, share a love of American rhythm and blues, put together a band, and pen some songs which they sing in a cave in Hamburg, and the rest is history.
Unlike Paul and John, most people become stuck because they're waiting. Waiting for some external approval of their internal drive to create. That one thing that's their big dream. They're waiting for someone to tell them it's OK to proceed.
A lot of people say, "I think I need to go back to graduate school and get an MFA in writing before I attempt to write my book." Which is, really, just a convenient way to postpone something which seems hard. Do you need a degree to write? John and Paul didn't. [Of course, there are some fields in which a license is absolutely necessary - brain surgery comes to mind. I don't know about you, but I want my brain surgeon to have the most training and experience possible.]
