While reading Ebony magazine this month I noticed a new book from Hill Harper entitled The Wealth Cure: Money in its Place. The book, which talks about the “wealth virus” America suffers from, is the newest in a line of books writien by Harper that include The Conversation: How Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships, Letter to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Beauty, and Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest your Destiny.
Okay, I can appreciate Hill Harper, I can appreciate the business he is trying to build and I’m certainly never one to knock a hustle but ever since I saw him on the Real Housewives of Atlanta, offering up relationship advice to visibly struggling couple Peter and Cynthia, I’ve had a hard time tying to understad exactly his brand. Not that Mr. Harper is waiting on my stamp of approval, however the saying “jack of all trades, master of none” is alive, real, and kickin’.
I’ve always been taught that being an expert on one thing, is always better than trying to be an expert on everything; know a lot, but have your expertise based in one thing- something you can master. 10,000 hours equates expertise so who has time to focus on more than one thing anway if that time period sets the standard? But does that rule limit us? Hill Harper is capitilizing in the business of giving advice (along with being an actor and founder of non-profit MANifest your Destiny), which is a lot on anyone’s plate but maybe has he tapped into the knowledge that each of our talents can stretch to include a lot of things? Or is this simply an example of sampling too much from one buffet,
Whichever the answer you have for any of the questions I asked, Hill Harper is building his empire- book by book- and is definitely a good example in the media in the midst of so many adverse ones. I guess I can’t be mad at that.
