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Mark Cuban’s Advice to His Kids on How to Be Successful Is 2 Simple Words
As a serial entrepreneur, former NBA team owner, long time Shark Tank co-star, and multibillionaire, Mark Cuban has certainly seen up close what it takes to make it big in life. When it comes to his three children, what advice does he give them on how to be successful?
You might think a guy with so much insider knowledge might point his kids to a particular professional niche or industry sector. But on a fun, free-wheeling recent episode of podcast Your Mom’s House, Cuban explained he doesn’t push his kids to take any particular path. Instead, his best advice to help them be successful is all of two words long: “Be curious.”
Mark Cuban’s top success advice to his kids.
The conversation kicks off when podcast co-host Robert Smith asks a perceptive and interesting question: When you’re super successful in a very public way like Cuban, how do you help your kids have their own identities and success beyond the shadow of their famous parent?
“It’s hard,” Cuban responds before walking through his thinking on setting his three teenage and young adult kids up for success and sanity. “You try to just let them be themselves. I try to not say you’ve got to go in this direction or that direction.”
