Erik Hanberg

Guest speaker, Erik Hanberg was a very interesting individual to learn about. I learned about what he called “multiplier skills” which are basically skills that a person has and can use to make their lives a little easier when it comes to what they desire to do with their life. These skills could be writing, designing, marketing, persuasion, languages, psychology, conversation, programming, public speaking, etc. The idea is that if you take these multiplier skills and put them online, the skills are amplified even more. Erik Hanberg as well informed the class about his several published books. Some of which include, The Little Book of Gold (2009), The Con Before Christmas (2012), The Little Book of Boards (2014), and The Queen of Neptune (2014.) By the way that he talked about these novels that he’s written you could just tell how passionate he was about them which made me want to look into some of his books and see what they were about. I would most likely read the book, The Little Book of Gold, just because Hanberg said that this book received the highest revenue so it must be pretty good. During our class discussion Hanberg goes on to talk about podcasts and basically why they are so successful. Podcasts have definitely come up in the world and this is because of free downloads, being able to search whatever you may be interested in, wireless internet, cell towers, etc. Personally, I never used to be a podcast type of person, but I have recently gotten into them and they can be very informing. Once again, I really enjoyed our guest speaker and I wish that we were able to have more during this quarter.