I don't really have to go into an office and so I do 99% of my work via email it's great because then when my kids get home from school or whatever they can ignore me in person what's for dinner get it yourself dad where you going out how was school school what are you eating food it's really special at the Cuban household hey everybody this is Mark Cuban and these are my rules for life rule number one follow the scroll oh my goodness I learned so much from my kids I learn what skibidi is and
the world keeps on changing and I keep on learning from them because they are exposed to all these new technologies social media is an integral part of their lives I have to understand that you know as a tech guy trying to understand how the algorithms you know influence their lives they're in the car and I'm driving my son I can look over at a stoplight and see him scrolling through his Instagram or Tik Tok and know exactly what he's interested in trying to be able to connect to him which like for any parent could be
almost impossible but it's just inform of rule number two if you can't stand alone you can't stay together my wife and I have a great relationship she's independent smart kind curious she's always reading and learning and exposed to new things and you know through osmosis and and as much conversation as I can I learn from her a lot and more importantly or as importantly she's in charge of our children I show up but she organizes it all I get told where to be and when whether whether it's pictures for homecoming whether it's greeting a first
date whether it's you know going and picking the kids up I also get late Duty so she'll take them to school in the morning and now when they're out late you know anything past 10 p.m. is late I'm the one who's got to go pick them up and it's always been that way but we we make a great Duo and um I'm proud of her proud of our kids rule number three old habits die hard you know when I first made money I did go out and buy things I bought a house bought a plane
but since then I literally like even had a conversation with my wife not long ago that okay we're allowed to go out and buy some stuff so if we want to let's go look at things but I'm not a big spender just not rule number four it's got to be an email so a lot of people ask about my daily routine and you're going to be shocked I look at my phone or I'm looking at a laptop and I'm on there 8 nine 10 hours a day am I going to meetings no am I taking
phone calls no am I going to some office somewhere no when I was working my way up I always had to work to somebody else's schedule when I finally sold my companies and had enough money to stand on my own prior to getting an eyewatch first thing I did was get rid of a watch I didn't wear a watch for 30 years because I didn't want to be on anybody else's time and now finally because people pretty much kiss my ass when it comes to business I can tell them I'm doing everything via email period
into story and because of that I can get everything done by sitting on a laptop or a phone phone anywhere in the world and that works out really really really well rule number five when it comes to food if you like one thing and you like another thing and then you combine them it will be by definition the best thing you've ever tasted if you have never taken a french fry and dipped it in your milkshake you have never experienced life you are missing out if you haven't taken mayonnaise and put it on a cracker
by itself I'm getting hungry just thinking about it if you haven't taken ice cream and put anything on it there is nothing in the entire world I don't care what it is that doesn't go with ice cream you can thank me later number six life is half random you know how I got to be a billionaire I was born at the right time so that when the internet technology really took off and we were able to start audionet which turned into broadcast.com which turned into the first streaming company which went public and I could turn
around and sell for 5.7 billion dollars in stock that was luck being able to do all the work and learn how all the technology worked that was work the other half though I had no control over when the Internet stock market was going to go up or when it was going to go down and the bubble would burst life is half random it's what you do with the half you can control that really sets a tone for your entire life rule number seven it doesn't matter how many times you fail you only had have to
be right once then everybody can call you an overnight success I've had a lot of success in my life and I've had failures and you'll laugh at the failures I've been fired for more jobs than you've probably had I started a powdered milk company yeah you never heard of it it sucked I thought hey it's powder milk it's cheaper than regular milk so what if it doesn't taste quite as good you people like milk that tastes good it doesn't matter how many times I failed I only had to be right one time rule number eight
how you do anything is you do everything the reason that's important is we all have opportunities to cut Corners we can you know if you're working out you can do that 10th rep or you can stop at 8 if I drop something in the kitchen I'm not thinking somebody will clean up behind me I literally in my mind I'm thinking you got to pick that up because how you do anything is how you do everything rule number nine ask yourself why not me why can't I be the one who changes the world why can't I
be the one that breaks out and makes something happen when you come to that point where you have to make decisions and you're not sure and you don't know the next step just ask yourself just like I did why not me why can't I be the one I you know I do this thing when I go to kids school I talk to them about entrepreneurship and setting goals and this and that and I'll tell them I say look around you see that screen on the wall there one day it didn't exist and some then the
next day somebody had an idea and created a company out of it and now the school bought that screen why not you why why can't you be the person that comes up with the next great idea why can't you be the one that starts a company that turns into the next Google or Apple or Nike or whatever it may be always be able to ask yourself why not me why can't I be the one who changes the world rule number 10 everybody's got the will to win but it's only those with the will to prepare
that do win I've traveled around the world and the one thing that makes us different than every other country on this planet is the American dream every single one of us at some point in our lives has that idea and we all go through the same process you go to a friend oh I got this idea and you say to them what do you think and they're like oh that's a good idea then you go online and you do a search and you go there's nobody else who's done it and you're thinking oh my goodness
this is it but then most people stop or most people don't do all the work we think to ourselves yes I'm going to do it I know this is great but then we also start thinking about the mortgage kids car payments insurance and that holds us back you don't have to go all in on every idea everybody's got the will to be successful everybody does everybody wants to be successful but the most important part is the work you do to prepare to be successful
