Lex Fridman: belief

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…I did a lot of horsing around. I did a lot of things that at the time I thought were sort of playful and fun, and I have learned since were not. And I have had to recognize that I crossed some boundaries and I did some things that were wrong and I made some mistakes, and that’s in my past. I mean, I’ve been working so hard over these last seven years to have the conversations I needed to have, to listen to people, to understand things from a different perspective than the one that I had and to say, “I will never behave that way again for the rest of my life.” Just to clarify, I think you are often too pushy with the flirting and that manifests itself in multiple ways. Just to make clear, you never prevented anyone from leaving if they wanted to. You always took the explicit, “No” from people as an answer. “No, stop.” You took that for the answer. You’ve never done anything sexual with an underage person and you’ve never explicitly offered to exchange sexual favors for career advancement. These are some of the accusations that have been made and in the court of law multiple times have been shown not to be true. But I have had a sexual life and I’ve fallen in love and I’ve been so admiring of people that I… I’m so romantic. I’m such a romantic person that there’s this whole side of me that hasn’t been talked about, isn’t being discussed, but that’s who I know. That’s the person I know. It’s been very upsetting to hear that some people have said, I mean, I don’t have a violent bone in my body, but to hear people describe things as having been very aggressive is incredibly difficult for me. And I’m deeply sorry that I ever offended anyone or hurt anyone in any way. It is crushing to me, and I have to work very hard to show and to prove that I have learned. I got the memo and I will never, ever, ever behave in those ways again.…

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