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?

Дерек Сиверс: Чудно или само различно?

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Како што вели поговорката: „Секое нешто има две страни“, и за 2 минути, Дерек Сиверс покажува дека ова е вистина за работи кои не сте ги очекувале
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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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Замислете дека се наоѓате на некоја улица било каде во Америка
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and a Japanese man comes up to you and says,
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и ви приоѓа некој Јапонец прашувајќи ве
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"Excuse me, what is the name of this block?"
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„Извинете, како се вика овој блок?“
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And you say, "I'm sorry, well, this is Oak Street, that's Elm Street.
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А вие одговарате - „Жал ми е. Значи, ова е булевар Партизански одреди,
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This is 26th, that's 27th."
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тоа е Рузвелтова, понатаму е Орце Николов и уште понатаму Костурски Херои.“
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He says, "OK, but what is the name of that block?"
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Тој ви вели, „ок. Но како се вика овој блок?“
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You say, "Well, blocks don't have names.
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Вие велите, „Па, блоковите кај нас немаат имиња.
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Streets have names; blocks are just the
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Кај нас, улиците имаат имиња, а блоковите се само
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unnamed spaces in between streets."
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оние безимени простори помеќу улиците.“
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He leaves, a little confused and disappointed.
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И тој си заминува, малку збунет и разочаран.
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So, now imagine you're standing on a street, anywhere in Japan,
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И сега замислете дека се наоѓате на некоја улица во Јапонија,
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you turn to a person next to you and say,
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и прашувате некој минувач до вас
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"Excuse me, what is the name of this street?"
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„Се извинувам, како се вика оваа улица?“
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They say, "Oh, well that's Block 17 and this is Block 16."
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И тој вели “Па знаете, ова е блок 17, ова е 16.“
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And you say, "OK, but what is the name of this street?"
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А вие велите “Добро, но како се вика оваа улица?“
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And they say, "Well, streets don't have names.
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И тој ви вел “Знаете, улиците немаат имиња.
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Blocks have names.
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Блоковите имаат имиња.
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Just look at Google Maps here. There's Block 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
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Еве, погледнете на Google Maps. Овде е блок 14,15,16,17,18,19.
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All of these blocks have names,
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Сите овие блокови имаат имиња.
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and the streets are just the unnamed spaces in between the blocks.
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А улиците се само безимените простори помеѓу блоковите.
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And you say then, "OK, then how do you know your home address?"
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И тогаш велите. „Добро, како тогаш ја знаете вашата адреса на живеење?“
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He said, "Well, easy, this is District Eight.
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Тој ви одговара, „Па лесно, ова е Регион 8.
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There's Block 17, house number one."
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Овде е блок 17, куќа број 1.“
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You say, "OK, but walking around the neighborhood,
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Вие велите, „Добро. Но, шетајќи наоколу, приметив дека куќите
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I noticed that the house numbers don't go in order."
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не се нумерирани по редослед.“
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He says, "Of course they do. They go in the order in which they were built.
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Тој вели, „Секако дека се. Нумерирани се по редоследот по кој што биле изградени.
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The first house ever built on a block is house number one.
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Првата куќе изградена на овој блок е нумерирана со бројот 1.
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The second house ever built is house number two.
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Втората куќа е број 2.
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Third is house number three. It's easy. It's obvious."
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Третата е број 3. Лесно и очигледно.“
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So, I love that sometimes we need to
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Знаете, баш ми се допаѓа кога треба да отидеме
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go to the opposite side of the world
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на спротивната страна на светот
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to realize assumptions we didn't even know we had,
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за да ги согледаме претпоставките кои и не сме знаеле дека ги имаме
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and realize that the opposite of them may also be true.
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и да согледаме дека и спротивните претпоставки на нив исто така може да се вистинити.
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So, for example, there are doctors in China
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Така на пример, постојат лекари во Кина
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who believe that it's their job to keep you healthy.
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кои веруваат дека нивната работа е да ве одржуваат здрави.
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So, any month you are healthy you pay them,
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Така, секој месец кога сте здрави, вие им плаќате,
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and when you're sick you don't have to pay them because they failed
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а кога сте болни, не им плаќате бидејќи тие не успеале да ве одржат здрави.
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at their job. They get rich when you're healthy, not sick.
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Така, тие се богатат кога вие сте здрави, а не болни.
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(Applause)
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(Аплауз)
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In most music, we think of the "one"
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Во музиката, под „еден“ подразбираме
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as the downbeat, the beginning of the musical phrase: one, two, three, four.
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почеток на тактот. еден, два ,три, четри.
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But in West African music, the "one"
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Но, во западно-африканската музика, „еден“
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is thought of as the end of the phrase,
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го означува крајот на тактот,
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like the period at the end of a sentence.
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како што точката го означува крајот на реченицата.
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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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Па, може да го чуете не само во ознаките, туку и во начинот на кој држат такт.
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two, three, four, one.
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два, три, четри, еден.
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And this map is also accurate.
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И оваа мапа е исто така точна.
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(Laughter)
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(смеа)
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There's a saying that whatever true thing you can say about India,
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Има една поговорка дека што и да тврдите во Индија,
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the opposite is also true.
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спротивното е исто така вистинито.
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So, let's never forget, whether at TED, or anywhere else,
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Па, да не заборавиме, било на ТЕД, било надвор од тука,
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that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear,
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дека која и да е бријилантна идеја која сте ја чуле,
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that the opposite may also be true.
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нејзината спротивна можеби исто така е вистинита.
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Domo arigato gozaimashita.
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Домо аригато гозаимашита. (ви благодарам)
Translated by Dragan Bocevski
Reviewed by Zoran Blazevski

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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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