“Maybe it’s a bad habit,” Cuban says of his TV routine. “I think it’s an old habit that I just haven’t gotten rid of. Where, when my mind was racing so much and I needed to turn off and couldn’t, it was a distraction. When I was thinking about work all the time. If there was something else on, just to distract.”
He says he also uses a fitness tracker to know when he’s getting good sleep and when he’s not. (He’s used Fitbit but says the Microsoft version is his favorite.)
Cuban says he gets by on six hours of sleep a night, though seven is ideal, and he’s always down for a good nap particularly if he is traveling.
He also works out for an hour every day. “That I will find a way to get [a workout] done, I think, reflects how relentless I can be in the business world as well,” Cuban says.
Besides, that all still leaves plenty of time for e-mail.
“If I’m sleeping six, seven hours and working out one hour, there’s another 16 hours that I have access to my phone,” he says.
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