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Mark Cuban.
- Sometimes, the best way to learn is through experience, whether it be your own or someone else's; for these successful leaders, that learning came from time wasted.
- For Tony Hawk, it was working on a business that he wasn't passionate about and outside his area of expertise.
- CEO of Crimcheck Tom Shieh said attending many educational conferences was a waste of time because he didn't get to change to integrate that knowledge into his career.
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Hindsight is 20/20, and sometimes the best way to learn. But even better is learning from others' mistakes so that you don't have to make them. We asked these business mavericks and Advisors in The Oracles to share the biggest time-wasters that prevented them from reaching success sooner.