50 minutes lecture with Mark Cuban

“Here is Mark Cuban~!”
I didn’t know he is that famous person among students…
He owns Dallas Mavericks, and HDTV/HDnet, and for me, that was his business, not mine.
I thought he could buy and create those businesses because he was born as a billionaire, but he wasn’t. He was the person who started one’s life from the bottom!
He impressed me by appearance first: He wore a pair of jean and old-looking T-shirt!
I expected him to wear a nice famous-brand-made suit, but he didn’t: He was somewhat special.

He talked his thoughts about blogging, and I totally agree with his definition on blog.
“Blog is a personal diary website. And it requires discovery experience. Everyone is a discoverer and subscriber. It is easier for people to get involved.”
He also said that as a technology reporting person, one has to be a writer, and at the same time, that person has to be a reader.
That is right. A person who read his or her writing carefully trying to be as much as objective can avoid biased writing and understand people’s thoughts more accurately.

He told us that follow the traditional way or thoughts are trite life style. He thinks differently, and I think that it is one of the ways to achieve high succeed life.
Well, freeing oneself from common way or thought is somewhat necessary but too much freedom can be the shortcut to corrupt also.
That might win much recognition later, but there have been many examples that couldn’t be admitted in the days when the thoughts or idea came out.
What I agree with him is those different thoughts help promoting one’s life, but people shouldn't underestimate its side effect.

“A person who didn’t try one thing, or has no experience cannot say about that.”
It was the most impressed saying for me.
There are so many people who just adapt other’s thoughts and tell about those things like their opinion without knowing them exactly. It happened all around the world. Even in everyday talk among people, it often happened. As a reporter or a journalist, we, students have to avoid that.
That’s might be the reason why TV news or newspapers ask people who actually have experience or is experiencing one issue to report about that directly.

Media is more and more opening to the public, I think. Sometimes, reporters just pick what they want to report even though the whole situation doesn’t mean that -- like Mark Cuban’s cases. However, now we have our own media, blog, to raise that issue again, and can tell the truth. It developed our freedom of speech.
On the other hand, too much freedom of speech also can harm other people. If a person publishes his or her thought about another person, one has to care about that person’s reputation and human right. Even though the blog is his or her personal diary, it can’t be used as a mean to disgrace other people.

Mark Cuban is a person who enjoys his freedom and uses that as much as he can. And he succeeds on that. I enjoyed his lecture and I wish I can follow his way of thinking just a little bit but not too much.^^