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."

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Derek Sivers | Speaker | TED.com
TEDIndia 2009

Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?

Derek Sivers: Esquisito, ou somente diferente?

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“Há um outro lado da moeda para todas as coisas”, diz o ditado, e em 2 minutos Derek Sivers mostra que isso é verdade de algumas maneiras que você nem imagina.
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So, imagine you're standing on a street anywhere in America
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Imagine que você está em uma rua em algum lugar na América
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and a Japanese man comes up to you and says,
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e um japonês chega até você e diz,
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"Excuse me, what is the name of this block?"
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“Com licença, qual é o nome desta quadra?”
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And you say, "I'm sorry, well, this is Oak Street, that's Elm Street.
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E você diz “Desculpe-me. Bem, esta é Oak Street, aquela é a Elm Street.
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This is 26th, that's 27th."
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Esta é a 26ª Avenida e aquela é a 27ª Avenida.”
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He says, "OK, but what is the name of that block?"
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Ele diz “ok. Qual é o nome daquela quadra?”
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You say, "Well, blocks don't have names.
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Você diz “Quadras não têm nomes.
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Streets have names; blocks are just the
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Ruas têm nomes; quadras são apenas os
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unnamed spaces in between streets."
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espaços sem nome entre as ruas.”
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He leaves, a little confused and disappointed.
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Ele vai embora, um pouco confuso e desapontado.
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So, now imagine you're standing on a street, anywhere in Japan,
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Então, agora imagine que você está em uma rua, em algum lugar no Japão,
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you turn to a person next to you and say,
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vira-se para uma pessoa por perto e diz:
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"Excuse me, what is the name of this street?"
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“Com licença, qual é o nome desta rua?”
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They say, "Oh, well that's Block 17 and this is Block 16."
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Eles dizem "Bem, aquela é a quadra 17 e esta é a quadra 16"
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And you say, "OK, but what is the name of this street?"
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E você diz, “Ok, mas qual é o nome desta rua?”
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And they say, "Well, streets don't have names.
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E eles dizem "Ruas não têm nomes.
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Blocks have names.
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Quadras têm nomes.
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Just look at Google Maps here. There's Block 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
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Veja aqui no Google Maps. Há as quadras 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
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All of these blocks have names,
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Todas as quadras têm nomes.
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and the streets are just the unnamed spaces in between the blocks.
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As ruas são apenas os espaços sem nome que ficam entre as quadras.”
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And you say then, "OK, then how do you know your home address?"
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E você diz então, “Ok, então como vocês sabem o endereço de suas casas?”
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He said, "Well, easy, this is District Eight.
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Ele disse, “Bem, é fácil, este é o Distrito Oito.
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There's Block 17, house number one."
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Há o bloco 17, casa número Um.”
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You say, "OK, but walking around the neighborhood,
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Você diz, “Ok. Mas caminhando ao redor da vizinhança,
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I noticed that the house numbers don't go in order."
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percebi que os números das casas não seguem uma ordem.”
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He says, "Of course they do. They go in the order in which they were built.
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Ele diz, “Claro que estão em ordem. Estão na ordem em que elas foram construídas.
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The first house ever built on a block is house number one.
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A primeira casa construída em qualquer bloco é a casa número um.
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The second house ever built is house number two.
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A segunda é a número dois.
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Third is house number three. It's easy. It's obvious."
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A terceira é a número três. É fácil. É óbvio.”
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So, I love that sometimes we need to
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Então, eu adoro o fato de às vezes nós precisarmos
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go to the opposite side of the world
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ir ao outro lado do mundo
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to realize assumptions we didn't even know we had,
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para perceber suposições que não sabíamos que tínhamos,
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and realize that the opposite of them may also be true.
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e perceber que o oposto disto também pode ser verdade.
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So, for example, there are doctors in China
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Por exemplo, há médicos na China
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who believe that it's their job to keep you healthy.
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que acreditam que o trabalho deles é manter você saudável.
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So, any month you are healthy you pay them,
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Então, a cada mês que você estiver saudável, você paga a eles,
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and when you're sick you don't have to pay them because they failed
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e quando você está doente, você não tem que pagá-los, porque falharam
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at their job. They get rich when you're healthy, not sick.
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no seu trabalho. Eles ficam ricos quando você está saudável, ao invés de doente.
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
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In most music, we think of the "one"
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Na maioria das músicas nós pensamos no “um”
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as the downbeat, the beginning of the musical phrase: one, two, three, four.
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como a batida inicial, o início da frase musical. Um, dois, três, quatro.
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But in West African music, the "one"
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Mas na música do Oeste Africano, o “um”
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is thought of as the end of the phrase,
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é contado como o final,
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like the period at the end of a sentence.
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como o ponto ao fim de uma frase.
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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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Então, você pode ouvi-los não como nas frases, mas no modo como eles contam sua música.
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two, three, four, one.
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Dois, três, quatro, um.
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And this map is also accurate.
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E este mapa também é esclarecedor.
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(Laughter)
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(Risadas)
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There's a saying that whatever true thing you can say about India,
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Há um ditado que “qualquer coisa que seja verdadeira sobre a Índia,
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the opposite is also true.
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ao contrário também é verdade”.
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So, let's never forget, whether at TED, or anywhere else,
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Então, nunca esqueça que, seja no TED, ou em qualquer outro lugar,
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that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear,
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quaisquer ideias brilhantes que você tenha ouvido,
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that the opposite may also be true.
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o contrário delas também pode ser verdade.
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Domo arigato gozaimashita.
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“Domo arigato gozaimashita”.
Translated by Marcelo Benedet Tournier
Reviewed by Roberto Paes

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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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