WHAT DO BARACK OBAMA, JOHN STEWART, MICHAEL CONNELLY, BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, JOE PATERNO, JOHN GRISHAM, SETH GODIN, MAGIC JOHNSON, MARK CUBAN, AND STEVEN SPIELBERG HAVE IN COMMON? by Art Smukler, author & psychiatrist

March 30, 2012March 30, 2012 by artsmuklermd, posted in Psychiatry, Self Examination, Uncategorized, Writing

What they have in common is exactly what I don’t have, name recognition.

I wondered what would happen if, as an experiment, I listed famous people (who I’m interested in) and how that would reflect on my blog. Would some subscribers unsubscribe? Would I get more subscribers? Would people buy my books? Would they burn and erase them? Would nothing out of the ordinary happen?

As Seth Godin wrote, if you don’t take risks, probably your goals won’t be achieved.

While you’re here, even though you didn’t know you were actually going to visit, please check out the posts on Inside the Mind of a Psychiatrist. Some may be of interest, some may be helpful, but all were written to share what my views are regarding the world, the mind, therapy, and the human condition.

Also, please come back and visit. I’ll let you know how my experiment turned out.

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Art Smukler, MD was born and raised in Philadelphia, went to college and medical school in Pennsylvania, and completed his psychiatric training at UCLA. He is a board-certified psychiatrist, specializing in the treatment of adults with a subspecialty in adolescents. As a member of the UCLA faculty, he ran an award-winning psychotherapy conference for psychiatric residents and received the coveted “Golden Ear” award. He has published in psychiatric journals, and won the award for excellence in creative writing at The Santa Barbara Writers Conference. Now a full-time author, he applies his deep understanding of the human psyche to the motivations of his fictional characters. View all posts by artsmuklermd

10 thoughts on “WHAT DO BARACK OBAMA, JOHN STEWART, MICHAEL CONNELLY, BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, JOE PATERNO, JOHN GRISHAM, SETH GODIN, MAGIC JOHNSON, MARK CUBAN, AND STEVEN SPIELBERG HAVE IN COMMON? by Art Smukler, author & psychiatrist”

David says:

April 3, 2012 at 12:44 pm

Art, it worked, I visited. Although I did recognize your name because I had read some of your previous posts.

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Manny says:

April 1, 2012 at 8:16 pm

Although a nice catch, it could really be an interesting, researchable topic.

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1. artsmuklermd says:
  
  April 1, 2012 at 8:23 pm
  
  Thanks! I’ll report what happened next week.
  
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fibrochimp says:

March 30, 2012 at 10:12 pm

Aren’t you that shrink, the one who writes stuff? See you’re famous!
I don’t see my name on the list…. *hmph!*
🙂

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1. fibrochimp says:
  
  March 30, 2012 at 10:13 pm
  
  Just realised you won’t know who this is since it logs in under my wordpress doohicky!
  Gill Shutt 🙂 all the way from Wales
  
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2. artsmuklermd says:
  
  March 30, 2012 at 10:21 pm
  
  You are funny! Thanks.
  
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Neal Koss says:

March 30, 2012 at 8:56 pm

I recognize your name!! 🙂

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1. artsmuklermd says:
  
  March 30, 2012 at 10:22 pm
  
  Barack Obama and Art Smukler, who would have thought?
  
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Gina says:

March 30, 2012 at 4:26 pm

That’s a great experiment. I’m interested to see what happens.

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zencherry says:

March 30, 2012 at 3:56 pm

I love it! Very neat hook. I would say (if I were put to the thumbscrews lol), that all have tried to do their best at what they do, but then you knew that. 😉

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