Where do I even start?... My name is Greg Lindberg. I am an artist. If you weren't looking at this in print and I asked you to repeat my name, most couldn't. When I tell people my name is Greg, most hear "Craig", they remember "Glenn" or "Gary, I've even gotten "Grey Glindberg"back from some... To make my point short, No one ever remembers my name. That's O.K., except for the fact that recognition is key to my making a living.
A few years back, when I decided to take control of my life and stop dreaming about being a working artist, and actually start doing it, I did a little experiment. I started some identical social networking pages under two names, "Greg Lindberg", and "Max Powers". As awful as it sounds, I got the name "Max Powers" from an episode of "The Simpsons". I'm sure that it is a Google-able episode. The basic premise of the plot is that Homer changes his name to Max Power after seeing it on his Power Drill. Once he does this, his life changes amazingly for the better. Anyway... when it came to social networking the results were instantaneous and obvious! Greg Lindberg had made a few friends within a week, whereas Max Powers had made literally HUNDREDS. on identical pages with the exact same content, people liked and friended Max Powers by about ten to one over Greg Lindberg.
It was then that I decided to become Max Powers.
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