Weird, or just different? | Derek Sivers

Translator: Lucia Lukanova Reviewer: Roman Studenic

So, imagine you're standing on a street anywhere in America

Predstavte si, �e stoj�te na ulici kdeko�vek v Amerike

and a Japanese man comes up to you and says,

a pr�de k V�m Japonec a sp�ta sa,

"Excuse me, what is the name of this block?"

"Prep��te, ako sa naz�va tento blok?"

And you say, "I'm sorry, well, this is Oak Street, that's Elm Street.

Odpoviete, "Neviem. Toto je Oak Street a to Elm Street.

This is 26th, that's 27th."

Toto je 26-ta a to 27-ma."

He says, "OK, but what is the name of that block?"

On povie, "Aha, ok. Ako sa vol� ten blok?"

You say, "Well, blocks don't have names.

Odvet�te, "No, bloky nemaj� men�.

Streets have names; blocks are just the

Ulice maj� men�, bloky s� len

unnamed spaces in between streets."

bezmenn� priestory medzi ulicami."

He leaves, a little confused and disappointed.

Odídete trochu zmätený a sklamaný.

So, now imagine you're standing on a street, anywhere in Japan,

Teraz si predstavte V�s st� na ulici niekde v Japonsku,

you turn to a person next to you and say,

oto��te sa k osobe ved�a V�s a poviete,

"Excuse me, what is the name of this street?"

"Prep��te, ako sa vol� t�to ulica?"

They say, "Oh, well that's Block 17 and this is Block 16."

Odpovedia, "�, to je blok 17 a to je blok 16."

And you say, "OK, but what is the name of this street?"

A Vy poviete, "Ok, ale ako sa vol� t�to ulica?"

And they say, "Well, streets don't have names.

A oni na to, "No, ulice nemaj� men�.

Blocks have names.

Bloky maj� men�.

Just look at Google Maps here. There's Block 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.

Pozrite sa na t�to Google mapu. Je na nej blok 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.

All of these blocks have names,

V�etky tie bloky maj� men�.

and the streets are just the unnamed spaces in between the blocks.

Ulice medzi nimi s� len bezmenn� priestory.

And you say then, "OK, then how do you know your home address?"

Poviete potom, "Ok, a ako pozn�te Va�u vlastn� adresu?"

He said, "Well, easy, this is District Eight.

Povie, "Jednoducho, toto je distrikt osem.

There's Block 17, house number one."

Blok 17, dom číslo 1."

You say, "OK, but walking around the neighborhood,

Vy na to, "Ok, ale pre�iel som okolo bloku

I noticed that the house numbers don't go in order."

a v�imol si, �e ��sla domov nejd� v porad�."

He says, "Of course they do. They go in the order in which they were built.

Odpovie, "Jasn�, �e id�. S� v porad�, v akom boli postaven�.

The first house ever built on a block is house number one.

Prv� dom postaven� v tomto bloku m� ��slo jedna.

The second house ever built is house number two.

Druh� dom postaven� po �om m� ��slo dva.

Third is house number three. It's easy. It's obvious."

Tret� je dom s ��slom tri. Je to �ahk�. Je to samozrejm�."

So, I love that sometimes we need to

Milujem na tom, �e niekedy mus�me

go to the opposite side of the world

prejs� na koniec sveta,

to realize assumptions we didn't even know we had,

aby sme si uvedomili svoje predsudky

and realize that the opposite of them may also be true.

a pochopili, �e ich opak m�e by� tie� pravdou.

So, for example, there are doctors in China

V ��ne s� napr�klad lek�ri,

who believe that it's their job to keep you healthy.

ktor� veria, �e ich pr�cou je udr�a� �ud� zdrav�ch.

So, any month you are healthy you pay them,

Plat�te im za ka�d� mesiac pre�it� v zdrav�,

and when you're sick you don't have to pay them because they failed

a ke� ochoriete, plati� nemus�te, lebo si neodviedli

at their job. They get rich when you're healthy, not sick.

svoju pr�cu. Bohatn�, ke� ste zdrav�, nie chor�.

(Applause)

(Potlesk)

In most music, we think of the "one"

V��inou v hudbe mysl�me na "jedna"

as the downbeat, the beginning of the musical phrase: one, two, three, four.

ako za�iatok hudobnej fr�zy. Jedna - dva tri �tyri.

But in West African music, the "one"

V Z�padoafrickej hudbe je "jedna"

is thought of as the end of the phrase,

koncom fr�zy

like the period at the end of a sentence.

ako bodka na konci vety.

So, you can hear it not just in the phrasing, but the way they count off their music:

Po�u� to nielen vo fr�zovan�, ale aj v sp�sobe, ak�m po��taj� hudbu.

two, three, four, one.

Dva, tri, �tyri, jedna.

And this map is also accurate.

A t�to mapa je tie� presn�.

(Laughter)

(Smiech)

There's a saying that whatever true thing you can say about India,

Existuje pr�slovie, �e �oko�vek pravdiv� poviete o Indii,

the opposite is also true.

opak je tie� pravdou.

So, let's never forget, whether at TED, or anywhere else,

Nezabudnime teda, �e �i na TEDe alebo inde,

that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear,

akoko�vek skvele my�lienky po�ujete,

that the opposite may also be true.

ich opak m�e by� tie� pravdou.

Domo arigato gozaimashita.

Domo arigato gozaimashita.