Short excerpt from a YouTube interview (Vishen Lakhiani with Mark Cuban) in which Mark Cuban identifies his defining quality as "a thirst for knowledge," describing learning as gradually winding a "ball of yarn" that grows stronger each day.
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If we were to take you, Mark, and put you in a blender and blend you and create a cologne, and this cologne would bless the wearer with whatever is the ultimate quality of Mark Cuban. What would that quality be?
A thirst for knowledge. When I pick up new tidbits, when I pick up things, you know, it's like a ball of yarn. When you start to create a ball of yarn, it's all messy, right? Because you gotta wind it first and it's loose. And then as you start to add more and more knowledge to your own personal ball of yarn, it gets bigger and more solid and more powerful. And knowledge is the same way. It's hard at the beginning within a particular industry or topic or job to start picking up that knowledge. But each and every day that you add something, that that knowledge gets stronger and more powerful and you get more capable and you get more confident. And so every day I'm trying to add knowledge. And so when you take that knowledge, you become a learner.