ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Derek Sivers - Entrepreneur
Through his new project, MuckWork, Derek Sivers wants to lessen the burdens (and boredom) of creative people.

Why you should listen

Derek Sivers is best known as the founder of CD Baby. A professional musician since 1987, he started CD Baby by accident in 1998 when he was selling his own CD on his website, and friends asked if he could sell theirs, too. CD Baby was the largest seller of independent music on the web, with over $100M in sales for over 150,000 musician clients.

In 2008, Sivers sold CD Baby to focus on his new ventures to benefit musicians, including his new company, MuckWork, where teams of efficient assistants help musicians do their "uncreative dirty work."

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TEDIndia 2009

Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?

Derek Sivers: Divné alebo len iné?

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"Každá minca má dve strany." hovorí príslovie a len počas 2 minút dokáže Derek Sivers jeho pravdivosť na príkladoch, ktoré by ste nečakali.
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So, imaginepredstaviť si you're standingstojace on a streetpouličné anywherekdekoľvek in AmericaAmerika
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Predstavte si, �e stoj�te na ulici kdeko�vek v Amerike
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and a Japanesejapončina man comesprichádza up to you and sayshovorí,
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a pr�de k V�m Japonec a sp�ta sa,
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"ExcuseOspravedlnenie me, what is the namenázov of this blockblok?"
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"Prep��te, ako sa naz�va tento blok?"
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And you say, "I'm sorry, well, this is OakDub StreetUlica, that's ElmElm StreetUlica.
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Odpoviete, "Neviem. Toto je Oak Street a to Elm Street.
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This is 26thth, that's 27thth."
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Toto je 26-ta a to 27-ma."
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He sayshovorí, "OK, but what is the namenázov of that blockblok?"
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On povie, "Aha, ok. Ako sa vol� ten blok?"
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You say, "Well, blocksbloky don't have namesmená.
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Odvet�te, "No, bloky nemaj� men�.
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StreetsUliciach have namesmená; blocksbloky are just the
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Ulice maj� men�, bloky s� len
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unnamednemenovaný spacespriestory in betweenmedzi streetsuliciach."
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bezmenn� priestory medzi ulicami."
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He leaveslisty, a little confusedzmätený and disappointedsklamaný.
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Odídete trochu zmätený a sklamaný.
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So, now imaginepredstaviť si you're standingstojace on a streetpouličné, anywherekdekoľvek in JapanJaponsko,
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Teraz si predstavte V�s st� na ulici niekde v Japonsku,
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you turnotočenie to a persončlovek nextĎalšie to you and say,
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oto��te sa k osobe ved�a V�s a poviete,
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"ExcuseOspravedlnenie me, what is the namenázov of this streetpouličné?"
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"Prep��te, ako sa vol� t�to ulica?"
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They say, "Oh, well that's BlockBlok 17 and this is BlockBlok 16."
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Odpovedia, "�, to je blok 17 a to je blok 16."
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And you say, "OK, but what is the namenázov of this streetpouličné?"
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A Vy poviete, "Ok, ale ako sa vol� t�to ulica?"
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And they say, "Well, streetsuliciach don't have namesmená.
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A oni na to, "No, ulice nemaj� men�.
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BlocksBloky have namesmená.
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Bloky maj� men�.
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Just look at GoogleGoogle MapsMapy here. There's BlockBlok 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
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Pozrite sa na t�to Google mapu. Je na nej blok 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
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All of these blocksbloky have namesmená,
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V�etky tie bloky maj� men�.
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and the streetsuliciach are just the unnamednemenovaný spacespriestory in betweenmedzi the blocksbloky.
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Ulice medzi nimi s� len bezmenn� priestory.
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And you say then, "OK, then how do you know your home addressadresa?"
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Poviete potom, "Ok, a ako pozn�te Va�u vlastn� adresu?"
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He said, "Well, easyjednoduchý, this is DistrictOkres EightOsem.
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Povie, "Jednoducho, toto je distrikt osem.
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There's BlockBlok 17, housedom numberčíslo one."
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Blok 17, dom číslo 1."
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You say, "OK, but walkingchôdza around the neighborhoodsusedstvo,
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Vy na to, "Ok, ale pre�iel som okolo bloku
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I noticedvšimol that the housedom numbersčísla don't go in orderobjednať."
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a v�imol si, �e ��sla domov nejd� v porad�."
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He sayshovorí, "Of coursekurz they do. They go in the orderobjednať in whichktorý they were builtpostavený.
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Odpovie, "Jasn�, �e id�. S� v porad�, v akom boli postaven�.
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The first housedom ever builtpostavený on a blockblok is housedom numberčíslo one.
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Prv� dom postaven� v tomto bloku m� ��slo jedna.
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The seconddruhý housedom ever builtpostavený is housedom numberčíslo two.
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Druh� dom postaven� po �om m� ��slo dva.
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ThirdTretím is housedom numberčíslo threetri. It's easyjednoduchý. It's obviouszrejmý."
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Tret� je dom s ��slom tri. Je to �ahk�. Je to samozrejm�."
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So, I love that sometimesniekedy we need to
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Milujem na tom, �e niekedy mus�me
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go to the oppositeopak sidebočné of the worldsvet
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prejs� na koniec sveta,
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to realizerealizovať assumptionspredpoklady we didn't even know we had,
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aby sme si uvedomili svoje predsudky
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and realizerealizovať that the oppositeopak of them maysmieť alsotaktiež be truepravdivý.
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a pochopili, �e ich opak m�e by� tie� pravdou.
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So, for examplepríklad, there are doctorslekári in ChinaČína
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V ��ne s� napr�klad lek�ri,
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who believe that it's theirich jobzamestnania to keep you healthyzdravý.
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ktor� veria, �e ich pr�cou je udr�a� �ud� zdrav�ch.
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So, any monthmesiac you are healthyzdravý you payplatiť them,
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Plat�te im za ka�d� mesiac pre�it� v zdrav�,
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and when you're sickchorý you don't have to payplatiť them because they failedneúspešný
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a ke� ochoriete, plati� nemus�te, lebo si neodviedli
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at theirich jobzamestnania. They get richbohatý when you're healthyzdravý, not sickchorý.
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svoju pr�cu. Bohatn�, ke� ste zdrav�, nie chor�.
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(ApplausePotlesk)
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(Potlesk)
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In mostväčšina musichudba, we think of the "one"
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V��inou v hudbe mysl�me na "jedna"
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as the downbeatdownbeat, the beginningzačiatok of the musicalhudobné phrasefrázy: one, two, threetri, fourštyri.
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ako za�iatok hudobnej fr�zy. Jedna - dva tri �tyri.
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But in WestWest AfricanAfrický musichudba, the "one"
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V Z�padoafrickej hudbe je "jedna"
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is thought of as the endkoniec of the phrasefrázy,
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koncom fr�zy
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like the periodperióda at the endkoniec of a sentenceveta.
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ako bodka na konci vety.
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So, you can hearpočuť it not just in the phrasingfrázovanie, but the way they countpočítať off theirich musichudba:
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Po�u� to nielen vo fr�zovan�, ale aj v sp�sobe, ak�m po��taj� hudbu.
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two, threetri, fourštyri, one.
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Dva, tri, �tyri, jedna.
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And this mapmapa is alsotaktiež accuratepresný.
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A t�to mapa je tie� presn�.
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(LaughterSmiech)
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(Smiech)
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There's a sayingpríslovie that whateverHocičo truepravdivý thing you can say about IndiaIndia,
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Existuje pr�slovie, �e �oko�vek pravdiv� poviete o Indii,
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the oppositeopak is alsotaktiež truepravdivý.
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opak je tie� pravdou.
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So, let's never forgetzabudnúť, whetherči at TEDTED, or anywherekdekoľvek elseinak,
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Nezabudnime teda, �e �i na TEDe alebo inde,
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that whateverHocičo brilliantbrilantný ideasnápady you have or hearpočuť,
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akoko�vek skvele my�lienky po�ujete,
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that the oppositeopak maysmieť alsotaktiež be truepravdivý.
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ich opak m�e by� tie� pravdou.
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DomoDomo arigatoarigato gozaimashitaGozaimashita.
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Domo arigato gozaimashita.
Translated by Lucia Lukanova
Reviewed by Roman Studenic

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Derek Sivers - Entrepreneur
Through his new project, MuckWork, Derek Sivers wants to lessen the burdens (and boredom) of creative people.

Why you should listen

Derek Sivers is best known as the founder of CD Baby. A professional musician since 1987, he started CD Baby by accident in 1998 when he was selling his own CD on his website, and friends asked if he could sell theirs, too. CD Baby was the largest seller of independent music on the web, with over $100M in sales for over 150,000 musician clients.

In 2008, Sivers sold CD Baby to focus on his new ventures to benefit musicians, including his new company, MuckWork, where teams of efficient assistants help musicians do their "uncreative dirty work."

More profile about the speaker
Derek Sivers | Speaker | TED.com