Jared Kushner

didn't have a choice what do you mean i mean i could have spent every day feeling sorry for myself for complaining or saying things aren't fair but the the general way i looked at it was that in life every opportunity has a cost and you know you could look at it and say maybe this was a massive cost either in in dollars or in time or in reputation or in or in um or in an emotional drain but

But you could also say that, you know, I had an opportunity to work in the White House and I had an opportunity to work on some of the hardest challenges.

And you talk about how that's not celebrated.

That is something very different.

In the private sector, when you take on big challenges, that is celebrated.

In government, when you take on big challenges, people want to see it fail or they want to criticize those people who are trying to take that on.

And I think that's wrong.

And I think that

As a country, we should be thinking big, we should be dreaming big, and we should be encouraging our politicians to try and to fail more and to go and to take on big things, knowing that there's risk of failing.

Obviously, we want them to succeed, not to fail, but let's take on the big things.

Let's try to do that.

So I think it's just very basic that you're in a situation, I've made decisions, I can't go back and change decisions in the past.

I still felt very blessed to be in the position I was in, and I knew that I just had to work through it.

And like I said, I was very lucky to have support from my wife and from my family and from good friends.

Again, I think I'd chosen very good friends in life, and my friends were with me.

I had one friend who, my lowest moment,

uh you know got on the plane you lived in arizona got on a plane and came just have dinner with me to say just just pick your head up i know you're down now you're going to be fine just just fight through that meant a lot to me and again i i always think in my life you know you don't learn as much from your successes you don't learn as much from your high points you learn the most about who you want to be and how the world works from your lowest moments and at those lowest moments it just it made me better and it taught me how to be a

And I tried to just get tougher and I tried to just get better and work through it.

So I think it was just number one, knowing that you had a partner and knowing that you had somebody who loved you and believed in you.

I think that was definitely by far the biggest of anything.