Pico Iyer: The beauty of what we'll never know
پیکو لایر: زیباییِ آنچه هرگز نخواهیم دانست
Pico Iyer has spent more than 30 years tracking movement and stillness -- and the way criss-crossing cultures have changed the world, our imagination and all our relationships. Full bio
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a group of rough men
for a bar of chocolate at home.
شکلات باید میپرداختم هم کمتر بود.
between palaces and pagodas.
کاخ ها و معابد رکاب میزد.
he had come to the city from his village.
چطور از روستایش به شهر آمده.
under a military dictatorship,
دیکتاتوری نظامی دشوار است،
he could make a living.
he actually slept in his trishaw
در سه چرخه اش خوابیده
off the all-night train.
قطار شب را سوار میکند.
that in certain ways,
by foreign cultures --
crowded streets,
down rough, wild alleyways.
متفاوت و عجیبی کردیم.
could happen to me now.
که هر اتفاقی ممکنه برام بیفته.
چیزی به خوردم بدن
و منو به داخل آلونکی هدایت کرد
he had ever received
باطنشم ببینیم.
نخواهیم رفت.
every moment that you're not,
اینطور نیست.
of things, either.
"مردم ارزو دارن که آرامش داشته باشند"
as we are unsettled
we've been lucky enough
new ideas and discoveries
و هیجان انگیز چیزهایی بشنویم.
pushed excitingly forwards.
طرز زیبایی جلو میره.
در اون علم هم باز می مونه.
or uneasy or carried out of yourself,
گم شدن وبی قراری و ناامنی دارید،
who showed me the laws of physics
که به من قوانینِ فیزیک رو یاد دادند
three times three makes nine.
نُه میشه.
minus three makes nine,
مساوی نُه میشه،
that almost feels like trust.
اعتماد کردن ه.
isn't always ignorance.
it's the things I don't know
چیزهایی که من "نمی دونم شون"،
and pushed me forwards
بیشتر از چیزهایی که" می دونمشون"
to everybody around me.
نزدیک تر کردند.
with the Dalai Lama.
به جاهای مختلف سفر کردم
reassurance and confidence
going to get world peace?"
economist Daniel Kahneman
دانیل کهمن
researching human behavior,
رفتارِ انسان ها کرده،
of what we think we know
به چیزهایی که فکر میکنیم" می دونیم شون"،
to ignore our ignorance."
نادیده گرفتنِ جهلِ خودمون داریم."
is going to win this weekend,
این آخرِ هفته برنده بشه،
درست فهمیده بودیم شون.
is going to do tomorrow?
عاشقتون فردا چیکار براتون میکنه؟
as some people call them,
(به قولِ بعضی ها)
were eating from the tree of life.
از اون درختِ زندگی چیزی نمی خوردند.
of good and evil,
ازدرختِ آگاهی به خوب و بد، کردند،
a little too late, perhaps,
that we need to know,
نیاز به دونستن شون داریم.
that are better left unexplored.
که بهتره نامعلوم باقی بمونن.
in classrooms collecting facts,
به یادگیریِ حقیقت های علمی پرداختم.
in the information business,
for two-and-a-half weeks,
به مدتِ دو هفته و نیم به ژاپن سفر کردم،
about Japan's temples,
معابد،
رو ثبت کرده بودم.
I couldn't explain to you yet,
داد، به دلایلی که هنوز نمی تونم توضیح بدم شون--
در ژاپن زندگی کنم.
زندگی میکنم،
very much at all
I'm making some new discovery,
در حالِ کشفِ چیزهای جدیدی هستم.
and seeing the hundred thousand things
و صدها چیزِ جدید می بینم،
can be more dangerous than ignorance.
خطرناک تر باشه.
عاشقتون رو میشناسید،
هرگز نمی تونید بشناسیدشون.
وقتی آفتاب توی آپارتمانِ کوچکِ ما پهن میشه
is flooding into our little apartment,
the weather forecast,
پیش بینی های آب و هوا رو اصلا نبینم،
ذهنم پر از ابر میشه،
روزِ صاف و آفتابی ای باشه.
نویسنده ی تمام وقتم.
writer now for 34 years.
یاد گرفتم اینه که:
when I'm not in charge,
من "مسئول " نیستم،
than everything around me.
بزرگتر و قوی ترم.
well-lit streets;
پُر چاله رد میشیم.
of the first law of travel
as your readiness to surrender.
که قوی هستیم".
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Pico Iyer - Global authorPico Iyer has spent more than 30 years tracking movement and stillness -- and the way criss-crossing cultures have changed the world, our imagination and all our relationships.
Why you should listen
In twelve books, covering everything from Revolutionary Cuba to the XIVth Dalai Lama, Islamic mysticism to our lives in airports, Pico Iyer has worked to chronicle the accelerating changes in our outer world, which sometimes make steadiness and rootedness in our inner world more urgent than ever. In his TED Book, The Art of Stillness, he draws upon travels from North Korea to Iran to remind us how to remain focused and sane in an age of frenzied distraction. As he writes in the book, "Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds ... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world."
Pico Iyer | Speaker | TED.com