Pico Iyer: The beauty of what we'll never know
پیکۆ لایە: جوانی ئەوەی کە هەرگیز نایزانین
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
پياوى بەهێز بووم
for a bar of chocolate at home.
بۆ پارچەیەک چوکڵاتە لە ماڵەوە.
between palaces and pagodas.
بە نێوان کۆشک و پەرستگاکان.
he had come to the city from his village.
هاتۆتە ئەو شارە لە لادێکەیەوە.
under a military dictatorship,
لەژێر دەسەڵاتی دیکتاتۆریەتی سەربازی،
he could make a living.
کە بتوانێ بژێوی پەیدا بکات.
he actually slept in his trishaw
لە ناو گالیسکەکەی خەوتووە
off the all-night train.
لە شەمەندەفەری شەوانە.
that in certain ways,
لەچەند ڕوويەكى دياريكراوەوە،
by foreign cultures --
بە کلتوری بیانیەکان
crowded streets,
down rough, wild alleyways.
could happen to me now.
دەکرێ بەسەرم بێت ئێستا.
دەرمانخوارد بکرامایە
he had ever received
کە تا ئێستا پێی گەشتبوو
every moment that you're not,
وابيردەهێنرێتەوە كە وانيت
of things, either.
as we are unsettled
کە جێگیر نین
we've been lucky enough
زۆر بە بەخت بوین
new ideas and discoveries
هەموو ئەو ڕێیانەی
pushed excitingly forwards.
or uneasy or carried out of yourself,
یان سەختیت بەڕێ کرد
who showed me the laws of physics
کە یاساکانی فیزیایان فێرکردووم
three times three makes nine.
کە سێ جاران سێ دەکاتە نۆ.
minus three makes nine,
that almost feels like trust.
كە زياتر وەك متمانە پێكردنە.
isn't always ignorance.
it's the things I don't know
کە ئەو شتانەی نایزانم
and pushed me forwards
و سەرکەوتوتر بوومە
to everybody around me.
لە هەرکەسێک کە لە دەورمە.
with the Dalai Lama.
لەگەڵ دالی لاما.
reassurance and confidence
بە خەڵك بدات
going to get world peace?"
economist Daniel Kahneman
کە براوەی خەڵاتی نۆبڵە
researching human behavior,
ڕەفتاری مۆرڤ کردووە،
of what we think we know
دڵنیاین كە پێمان وایە دەيزانين
to ignore our ignorance."
is going to win this weekend,
دەبێ ئەم هەفتەیە
ڕاستەقينەى لێیە.
is going to do tomorrow?
بەیانی چی دەکات؟
as some people call them,
were eating from the tree of life.
ئەو کاتەی لە داری ژیانیان خواردبا.
of good and evil,
چاکە و خراپە،
a little too late, perhaps,
that we need to know,
پێویستە بیانزانین،
that are better left unexplored.
وازیان لێبهێنین.
in classrooms collecting facts,
بۆ کۆکردنەوەی زانست و زانیاری
in the information business,
for two-and-a-half weeks,
بۆ دوو هەفتە و نیو
about Japan's temples,
بە وردی سەبارەت بە پەرستگەکانی یابان
I couldn't explain to you yet,
کە ناتوانم ئێستاش بۆتان ڕون بکەمەوە
very much at all
I'm making some new discovery,
من هەموو ڕۆژێک شتی نوێ دەدۆزمەوە،
and seeing the hundred thousand things
و بە هەزارەها شت دەبینم
can be more dangerous than ignorance.
ترسناكتر بێ لە نەزانين
کە هەرگیز نایان ناسیت
is flooding into our little apartment,
خۆر لە شوقەکەی ئێمەی دەدا
the weather forecast,
کەش و هەوا نەکەم
writer now for 34 years.
٣٤. ساڵ
when I'm not in charge,
کە من بەرپرس نیم
than everything around me.
ئەو شتانەی دەوروبەرم گەورەترم.
بۆ گالیسکەکە دووبارە
well-lit streets;
ڕوناككراوەكانين
of the first law of travel
بەیاددێتەوە
ژیانیشمان بەیاددێنێتەوە:
خۆبەدەستەوەدان بەهێزی.
as your readiness to surrender.
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