Yahoo Finance Tech Billionaire, Shark Tank Investor Mark Cuban Tells The Secret To Find Your Calling — 'You May Be 55, But It Can Happen'
"Follow your passion."
"Always do what you love."
"Never stop chasing your dreams."
All of that might sound ridiculously cliché to many who are stuck in the 9-5 rut and barely able to find time to hang out with friends on the weekend, let alone finding their passion.
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Is it even possible to find your true calling and know what you are passionate about?
Shark tank investor and billionaire Mark Cuban says yes, even if you are 55.
Talking on Lex Fridman's podcast, Cuban said the secret to finding what you are good at is being curious all the time and exposing yourself to new experiences, no matter your age.
"Be curious, read, watch, expose yourself to as many ideas as you can because something is going to click at some point. You may be 15, you may be 25, you may be 55. It can happen."
Cuban, 65, was born to an automobile upholsterer. He ventured into entrepreneurship and business when he was 12, selling garbage bags and stamps.
"I am a hard-core believer that everybody has something that they are really, really, really good at. That could be world-class great. Every single human being on this planet. The hard part is just finding what that is, and in some places having resources to enable it," Cuban said during the podcast.
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Cuban, worth over $5 billion today, cofounded AudioNet (later sold to Yahoo for $5.7 billion as Broadcast.com), MicroSolutions and AXS TV, among many other businesses. He also held a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks, which he sold last year.
You Don't Know What Your Passion Is Until You "Go Out and Experience"
Cuban is a tech billionaire today but back in college, he struggled with programming.
"I took one technology class in college, FORTRAN programming, and I cheated on it."
It wasn’t until his first job after graduation that he developed an interest in programming and realized, "This is interesting to me, and I liked it."
"You just don’t know what that's going to be until you go out and experience different things," the billionaire added.
You Don't Need To Have All The Answers Right Now
During the interview, Cuban emphasized that it's not necessary to have "all the answers" when you are young.
"Just be curious. You don’t have to have the answers; you don’t know what you're going to do when you grow up."
Cuban's Business Secret: "Do What Other People Aren't Doing"
However, finding your calling out in the wild isn't a totally random process. Not everyone can be a billionaire or find their passion just by being "curious" or trying all sorts of things. During his conversation with Fridman, Cuban talked about the real secret behind his success in business:
"Typically, my career, where I started companies, it's to do something that other people aren’t doing. The salesmanship was walking into a company and saying ... Look, talk to me, I can help you improve your productivity and profitability ... You didn’t have to be a born salesperson to ask those questions. But you have to be able to be willing to put in the time to learn that business. And that's the hardest part."
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