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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Moment 91: The "Harmless" Thing You Do That Hurts So Many People! - Richard Osmond

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Imagine being different and self conscious of this difference, then think of how it would feel to be reminded of this every single day of your life. In this moment Richard Osman discusses how he has been body shamed for over 30 years of his life. Ever since the impressionable age of 17 Richard has been made to feel small for his above average height. This changed his behaviour and meant that he held himself back from living the life he wanted to lead. Being ‘different’ has taught Richard about human nature and the hate in the world, but also empathy and what it means to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The other thing you talk about, and I've seen this in a few interviews, is your height,

0:06.4

being something you've almost contended with. And it's interesting because a lot of

0:12.0

short men want to be tall men, and here a tall man, say, speakers if you'd rather be

0:18.0

a little bit shorter, is quite surprising.

0:20.1

Well, I've six or seven, which is too much, is the truth. And it makes extraordinary.

0:25.4

My eyesight is not, people can't see that, right? Okay, so that's mine, and that's internalized,

0:29.9

and I deal with that how I want to. My height is something that people can always see.

0:34.2

And I find it fascinating, again, in this world of social media, when people talk about

0:38.0

microaggressions and stuff that you must have seen your entire life, which is if you're

0:41.8

different in any way, you're reminded of it, non-stop. Mostly in people that are not

0:48.3

being cruel, sometimes they are. Now, I have a height, so I'm not being discriminated

0:53.4

against because of my height, right? It's not, you know, it's not costing me anything.

0:58.1

But I do know that every single day of my life, I'm reminded of it, every single day,

1:03.0

just non-stop. And so I know that to be a person of color, to be differently gendered,

1:08.7

to be all of these things, I know that the microaggressions I get, you are getting non-stop

1:13.4

every day of your life, and in a much more harmful way. So I've always, hopefully, really

1:18.2

understood the idea of microaggressions and that idea that, please, I hear this every single

1:24.1

day, even if you're trying to be kind, you know, if you see somebody is different, they

1:29.0

do not need to be told. They do not need it pointed out every single day because everyone

1:33.8

has told them their entire life that they're different, you know? And I know you're just

1:38.4

thinking, yeah, but it's just me, you think, yeah, but it's just you and five other people

1:41.8

every single day forever. And, you know, I've had that with my height forever and ever

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