Pico Iyer: The beauty of what we'll never know
Pico Iyer: Keindahan dari apa yang tak akan pernah kita ketahui
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
segerombolan laki-laki sangar
di samping becak mereka.
membawa saya berkeliling.
for a bar of chocolate at home.
di negara asal saya.
between palaces and pagodas.
mengitari istana dan pagoda.
he had come to the city from his village.
perjalanannya dari desa sampai di kota ini
under a military dictatorship,
begitu sulit,
he could make a living.
cara ia bisa bertahan hidup.
he actually slept in his trishaw
ia tidur di becaknya
off the all-night train.
yang datang dengan kereta malam.
that in certain ways,
dalam beberapa hal,
by foreign cultures --
crowded streets,
jalan besar yang ramai,
down rough, wild alleyways.
ke gang kecil yang tak terawat.
could happen to me now.
apa pun bisa terjadi pada diri saya.
mengarahkan saya ke sebuah pondok,
apa yang akan diambilnya.
he had ever received
yang pernah diterimanya
foto teman-teman barunya dari luar negeri.
hendak berpisah malam itu,
dia sudah menunjukkan pada saya
Anda kunjungi (dalam kondisi normal),
every moment that you're not,
kita setiap saat diingatkan
of things, either.
"Orang-orang berharap menjadi mapan,"
as we are unsettled
we've been lucky enough
bisa hadir di konferensi ini
new ideas and discoveries
ide dan penemuan baru yang menakjubkan
terus didorong maju.
pushed excitingly forwards.
pengetahuan akan berlalu.
or uneasy or carried out of yourself,
mengenal diri Anda sendiri.
Anda menemukan jati diri Anda.
ketidak-tahuan adalah kebahagiaan.
ilmu pengetahuan telah membuat hidup kita
dan lebih sehat.
who showed me the laws of physics
Hukum Fisika
three times three makes nine.
tiga kali tiga adalah sembilan.
jari-jari saya kapan pun juga.
minus three makes nine,
adalah sembilan,
that almost feels like trust.
hampir seperti kepercayaan.
isn't always ignorance.
tidak selalu ketidak-tahuan.
it's the things I don't know
justru hal-hal yang tidak saya ketahui
and pushed me forwards
to everybody around me.
dengan orang-orang di sekitar saya.
selama delapan tahun berturut-turut
with the Dalai Lama.
berkunjung mengelilingi Jepang.
reassurance and confidence
rasa yakin dan tentram
going to get world peace?"
economist Daniel Kahneman
pemenang Penghargaan Nobel,
researching human behavior,
selama lebih dari 60 tahun,
of what we think we know
apa yang kita pikir kita tahu
to ignore our ignorance."
mengabaikan ketidak-tahuan kita."
is going to win this weekend,
"tim kita akan menang akhir minggu ini,"
yang sebenarnya.
is going to do tomorrow?
pasangan Anda besok?
as some people call them,
beberapa orang menyebutnya
were eating from the tree of life.
makan dari pohon kehidupan.
of good and evil,
akan kebaikan dan kejahatan,
a little too late, perhaps,
mungkin agak terlambat,
that we need to know,
yang perlu kita ketahui,
that are better left unexplored.
yang lebih baik kita tidak tahu.
in classrooms collecting facts,
mengumpulkan fakta di kelas,
in the information business,
dalam bisnis informasi,
for two-and-a-half weeks,
ke Jepang selama dua setengah minggu
about Japan's temples,
kuil Jepang secara rinci,
yang menggerakkan saya
I couldn't explain to you yet,
jelaskan pada Anda sekarang,
dan tinggal di Jepang.
selama 28 tahun,
very much at all
yang bisa saya sampaikan
I'm making some new discovery,
menemukan hal baru setiap harinya,
and seeing the hundred thousand things
dan mendapati ribuan hal
can be more dangerous than ignorance.
lebih berbahaya dari ketidak-tahuan.
pasangan Anda
Anda tidak akan pernah mengenal mereka.
is flooding into our little apartment,
menembus masuk apartemen kecil kami,
the weather forecast,
tidak mengecek ramalan cuaca,
mendung dan terganggu,
writer now for 34 years.
selama 34 tahun.
when I'm not in charge,
saya tidak sedang memegang kendali,
apa yang akan terjadi,
than everything around me.
dari segala hal di sekitar saya.
dalam cinta
well-lit streets;
jalan yang lebar dan terang;
of the first law of travel
akan hukum perjalanan yang pertama
as your readiness to surrender.
kesiapan Anda untuk menyerah.
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."
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