Weird, or just different? | Derek Sivers

Translator: Matej Divjak Reviewer: Janja Sterle

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

Predstavljajte si, da stojite na ulici nekje v Ameriki

and a Japanese man comes up to you and says,

in k vam pristopi Japonec in vpraša:

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

"Oprostite, kako se imenuje ta blok?"

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

Vi rečete: "Oprostite. Torej, to je Ulica hrastov, tam je Ulica brestov.

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

To je 26., tisto je 27."

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

On reče: "No, v redu. Kako se imenuje tisti blok?"

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

Vi rečete: "No, bloki nimajo imen.

Streets have names; blocks are just the

Ulice imajo imena; bloki so samo

unnamed spaces in between streets."

neimenovani prostori med ulicami."

He leaves, a little confused and disappointed.

On odide, rahlo zmeden in razočaran.

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

Zdaj pa si predstavljajte, da stojite na ulici nekje na Japonskem,

you turn to a person next to you and say,

in vprašate mimoidočega:

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

"Oprostite, kako se imenuje ta ulica?"

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

On odgovori: "Tisto je blok 17 in to je blok 16."

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

In vi rečete: "Okej, ampak kako se imenuje ta ulica?"

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

In on odgovori: "Ulice nimajo imen.

Blocks have names.

Bloki jih imajo.

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

Poglejte na Google Maps. To je blok 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.

All of these blocks have names,

Vsi ti bloki imajo imena.

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

Ulice so samo neimenovani prostori med bloki.

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

In potem vprašate: "Kako pa veste vaš domač naslov?"

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

In on: "Preprosto, to je okrožje 8.

There's Block 17, house number one."

Tam je blok 17, hiša številka 1."

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

Vi rečete: "Okej. Vendar, ko sem hodil po soseščini,

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

sem opazil, da hišne številke ne gredo po vrstnem redu."

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

On pravi: "Seveda gredo. Gredo po vrsti, kot so bile zgrajene.

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

Prva hiša, ki so jo zgradili v bloku, je hiša številka ena.

The second house ever built is house number two.

Druga hiša, ki so jo zgradili, je hiša številka dve.

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

Tretja je hiša številka tri. Preprosto. Saj je očitno."

So, I love that sometimes we need to

Obožujem, da moramo včasih

go to the opposite side of the world

iti na drugo stran sveta,

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

da spoznamo predpostavke, za katere sploh nismo vedeli, da jih imamo,

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

in spoznamo, da njihovo nasprotje prav tako lahko drži.

So, for example, there are doctors in China

Na primer, na Kitajskem so zdravniki,

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

ki verjamejo, da je njihova služba, da vas ohranjajo zdrave.

So, any month you are healthy you pay them,

Vsak mesec, ko ste zdravi, jim plačate,

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

in ko zbolite, jim ni treba plačati, ker svojega dela

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

niso opravili. Obogatijo, ko ste zdravi, ne bolni.

(Applause)

(aplavz)

In most music, we think of the "one"

V večini glasbe z "en" mislimo

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

prvo poudarjeno dobo, začetek glasbene fraze. En, dva, tri, štir'.

But in West African music, the "one"

Toda v zahodnoafriški glasbi "en"

is thought of as the end of the phrase,

pomeni konec fraze,

like the period at the end of a sentence.

kot pika na koncu stavka.

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

Tega torej ne slišite samo v frazah, ampak tudi v načinu, kako štejejo glasbo.

two, three, four, one.

Dva, tri, štir', en.

And this map is also accurate.

Ta zemljevid je tudi točen.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

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

Obstaja rek, da karkoli resničnega poveste o Indiji,

the opposite is also true.

je popolno nasprotje tudi res.

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

Nikoli ne pozabimo, pa če smo na TED ali kjerkoli drugje,

that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear,

da kakršnekoli izvrstne ideje imate ali jih slišite,

that the opposite may also be true.

njihovo nasprotje je prav tako lahko res.

Domo arigato gozaimashita.

Najlepša hvala. (Domo arigato gozaimashita.)