Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on working with people you disagree with

Ketanji Brown Jackson shared detailed from her recently released memoir, "Lovely One," at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit.

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00:00I had the great good fortune of clerking for the justice whom I replaced, Justice Breyer,

00:07and one of the things that I try to do is emulate his way of being in the court,

00:15which is, and I talk about this in the book, I talk about my clerkship, I talk about how he was

00:21as a justice in terms of modeling this kind of ability to be optimistic, to brush himself off

00:30and go back into the conference with the other justices. You're talking about a branch of

00:36government, an institution that consists of nine people, so you really do, with lifetime appointments,

00:43so you really do have to get along, and I think one of the most important things is to try not

00:50to take anything personally. We do get the opportunity to voice our disagreements in the

00:58form of writing separately, and we lay out on the table what our views are. If they differ from

01:05the majority, then we write a dissent, and then we put it behind us, because that's the way the

01:11institution is set up, and as you say, it's necessary for us to be able to do our jobs.