Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
He's a very moral person.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
For me, with my humility, my brother and I joke that we give our credit for being humble, number one, to being Mets fans, because every year you have a lot of promise and then it never ends up paying off.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
Although now with Steve Cohen, hopefully we're on a different trajectory.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
But the other thing is also our mother.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
Our mother really raised us to be very humble.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
We knew we had a lot, but every Sunday morning, my mom was there clipping the coupons.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
The cereal we ate in our house was based on what was on sale versus what we liked.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
When we would have a problem with our teachers in school and I'd say, well, teacher doesn't like me, she'd say, well, I'm not calling them.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
It's your job to make the teacher like you.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
And so my mother gave us a lot of that.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
My father gave us a lot of the grounding.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
And I think during that time, my father was just...
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
realizing that maybe he had gotten disconnected from the grounding and the values.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
And again, I think he also accepted maybe he could have blamed others for acting inappropriately, but I respect the fact that he took responsibility himself and said, I can't control the actions of other people.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
I can't control what they do is right and wrong.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
I can just control my actions.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
And
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
as I go on the next journeys in my life and I go to government, I go to Washington.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
I mean, I even think through the craziness of going from, you know, visiting my father in a prison to 10 years later, sitting in the office in the White House next to the president of the United States.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#399 โ Jared Kushner: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Gaza, Iran, and the Middle East
And like, I think about that story and that it's a story that only God could write.