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
TEDIndia 2009

Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?

Derek Sivers: Bizarre, ou juste différent?

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"Il y a un revers à toute chose" dit-on, et en 2 minutes, Derek Sivers démontre que c'est vrai de quelques façons pour le moins inattendues...
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Through his new project, MuckWork, Derek Sivers wants to lessen the burdens (and boredom) of creative people. Full bio

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So, imagine you're standing on a street anywhere in America
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Donc, imaginez que vous êtes dans une rue, n'importe où en Amérique
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and a Japanese man comes up to you and says,
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et un Japonais vous aborde et vous dit :
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"Excuse me, what is the name of this block?"
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"Excusez-moi, quel est le nom de ce bloc ?"
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And you say, "I'm sorry, well, this is Oak Street, that's Elm Street.
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Et vous dites : "Excusez moi. Eh bien, cette rue c’est Oak Street, et celle-là, Elm Street.
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This is 26th, that's 27th."
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Celle-ci est la 26e, celle-là, la 27e."
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He says, "OK, but what is the name of that block?"
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Il répond : "Bon, OK. Quel est le nom de ce bloc ?"
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You say, "Well, blocks don't have names.
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Vous dites : "Eh bien, les blocs n'ont pas de nom.
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Streets have names; blocks are just the
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Les rues portent des noms; les blocs ne sont que
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unnamed spaces in between streets."
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les espaces sans nom entre les rues."
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He leaves, a little confused and disappointed.
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Il vous quitte, un peu confus et déçu.
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So, now imagine you're standing on a street, anywhere in Japan,
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Bien, maintenant, imaginez que vous êtes dans une rue, n'importe où au Japon,
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you turn to a person next to you and say,
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vous vous adressez à une personne non loin de vous et vous demandez :
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"Excuse me, what is the name of this street?"
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"Excusez-moi, quel est le nom de cette rue ?"
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They say, "Oh, well that's Block 17 and this is Block 16."
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Elle répond : "Oh, bien, celui-ci c'est le bloc 17 et celui-là, le bloc 16."
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And you say, "OK, but what is the name of this street?"
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Et vous dites : "OK, mais quel est le nom de cette rue ?"
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And they say, "Well, streets don't have names.
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Et elle vous répond : "Mais les rues n'ont pas de nom.
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Blocks have names.
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Les blocs ont un nom.
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Just look at Google Maps here. There's Block 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
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Jetez un coup d'oeil sur Google Maps. Ici, vous avez les blocs 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
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All of these blocks have names,
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Tous ces blocs ont des noms.
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and the streets are just the unnamed spaces in between the blocks.
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Les rues ne sont que les espaces sans nom entre les blocs.
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And you say then, "OK, then how do you know your home address?"
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Et vous dites alors :"OK, mais alors, comment connaissez vous l'adresse de votre maison ?"
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He said, "Well, easy, this is District Eight.
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Il répond : "Bien, c'est simple, c'est le District Huit.
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There's Block 17, house number one."
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Ceci est le bloc 17, maison numéro Un."
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You say, "OK, but walking around the neighborhood,
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Vous dites : "OK. Mais en marchant dans le voisinage,
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I noticed that the house numbers don't go in order."
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j'ai remarqué que les numéros de maison ne se suivaient pas."
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He says, "Of course they do. They go in the order in which they were built.
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Il répond : "Bien sûr qu'elles suivent un ordre. Elles suivent l'ordre dans lequel elles ont été construites.
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The first house ever built on a block is house number one.
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La première maison jamais construite dans un bloc est la maison numéro un.
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The second house ever built is house number two.
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La seconde maison construite est la maison numéro deux.
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Third is house number three. It's easy. It's obvious."
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La troisième porte le numéro trois. C'est facile. C'est évident."
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So, I love that sometimes we need to
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J'aime que, parfois, nous ayons besoin
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go to the opposite side of the world
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d'aller à l'autre bout du monde
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to realize assumptions we didn't even know we had,
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pour comprendre les suppositions que nous avions sans le savoir
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and realize that the opposite of them may also be true.
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et comprendre que leur contraire peut aussi être vrai.
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So, for example, there are doctors in China
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Ainsi, par exemple, il y a des médecins en Chine
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who believe that it's their job to keep you healthy.
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qui croient que c'est leur job de vous garder en bonne santé.
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So, any month you are healthy you pay them,
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Donc, lorsque vous êtes en bonne santé, vous les payez chaque mois,
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and when you're sick you don't have to pay them because they failed
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et lorsque vous tombez malade, vous ne devez plus les payer car ils ont échoué
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at their job. They get rich when you're healthy, not sick.
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dans leur tâche. Ils deviennent riches lorsque vous êtes en bonne santé et non pas quand vous êtes malade.
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(Applause)
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(Applaudissements)
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In most music, we think of the "one"
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Dans la plupart des musiques, nous considérons le "un"
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as the downbeat, the beginning of the musical phrase: one, two, three, four.
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comme le premier battement d'une mesure, le commencement d'une phrase musicale. Un, deux, trois, quatre.
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But in West African music, the "one"
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Mais dans la musique d'Afrique de l'Ouest, le "un"
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is thought of as the end of the phrase,
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est perçu comme la fin d'une phrase,
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like the period at the end of a sentence.
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comme la période à la fin de la phrase.
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So, you can hear it not just in the phrasing, but the way they count off their music:
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Ainsi, vous pouvez entendre que ce n'est pas juste dans le phrasé, mais que c'est la façon dont ils comptent leur musique.
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two, three, four, one.
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Deux, trois, quatre, un.
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And this map is also accurate.
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Et cette carte est également exacte.
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(Laughter)
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(Rires)
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There's a saying that whatever true thing you can say about India,
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Il y a un dicton qui affirme que, pour toute vérité que vous pouvez dire sur l'Inde,
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the opposite is also true.
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le contraire est également vrai.
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So, let's never forget, whether at TED, or anywhere else,
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Donc, n'oubliez jamais, que ce soit à TED ou n'importe où ailleurs,
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that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear,
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que, quelles que soient les brillantes idées que vous avez ou entendez,
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that the opposite may also be true.
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leur contraire peut également être vrai.
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Domo arigato gozaimashita.
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Domo arigato gozaimashita. (Merci beaucoup).
Translated by Shadia Ramsahye
Reviewed by Fabienne Der Hagopian

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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

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