Pico Iyer: The beauty of what we'll never know
Pico Iyer: Asla bilmeyeceğimiz şeylerin güzel yanı
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
bisikletlerinin başında bekleyen
for a bar of chocolate at home.
verdiğimden daha azdı.
between palaces and pagodas.
yavaşça pedal çevirmeye başladı.
he had come to the city from his village.
nasıl geldiğinden bahsetti.
under a military dictatorship,
altında yaşam zordu
he could make a living.
sağlayabileceği tek yol buydu.
he actually slept in his trishaw
bisikletinde uyuduğunu,
off the all-night train.
yakalayabildiğini anlattı.
that in certain ways,
by foreign cultures --
crowded streets,
down rough, wild alleyways.
yol almaya başladık.
could happen to me now.
gelebileceğini fark ettim.
tek bir odadan ibaret olan
he had ever received
siyah-beyaz küçük
yerlere gitmek,
korkunç kolaydır.
every moment that you're not,
her an hatırlatılır
of things, either.
dediği şeyi hatırlayalım:
as we are unsettled
we've been lucky enough
new ideas and discoveries
pushed excitingly forwards.
or uneasy or carried out of yourself,
veya kendiniz olmadığınız o an,
sağlıklı hale getirdi.
who showed me the laws of physics
dokuz yaptığını gösteren öğretmenlerime
three times three makes nine.
minus three makes nine,
dokuz ettiğini söylediği an,
that almost feels like trust.
güven gibi bir şey hissettiriyor.
isn't always ignorance.
bilgisizlik demek değildir.
it's the things I don't know
ve ileri götüren şeylerin
and pushed me forwards
bilmediklerim olduğunu
to everybody around me.
bilmediğim şeylerdi.
with the Dalai Lama.
Japonya'yı geziyorum.
reassurance and confidence
going to get world peace?"
economist Daniel Kahneman
researching human behavior,
60 yıldan fazlasını vermiş
of what we think we know
düşündüğümüz şeylerden
to ignore our ignorance."
gibi sınırsız bir yeteneğimiz" var.
is going to win this weekend,
"bu hafta sonu takımımız kazanacak"
zamanlarda hatırlayacağız.
is going to do tomorrow?
biliyor musunuz?
as some people call them,
hepimizin anne babası
were eating from the tree of life.
yemeseydi ölmeyecekti.
of good and evil,
a little too late, perhaps,
that we need to know,
şeyler olduğunu,
that are better left unexplored.
iyi olan birçok şey olduğunu öğrendiler.
in classrooms collecting facts,
olgusal gerçekleri toplayarak geçirmiştim,
in the information business,
for two-and-a-half weeks,
ilk seyahatimi yaptım
about Japan's temples,
I couldn't explain to you yet,
nedenlerle beni hareketlendirdi,
very much at all
I'm making some new discovery,
and seeing the hundred thousand things
bilemeyeceğim yüz binlerce şeyi
can be more dangerous than ignorance.
daha tehlikeli olabilir.
is flooding into our little apartment,
küçük dairemize vururken
the weather forecast,
writer now for 34 years.
when I'm not in charge,
than everything around me.
olduğumu sanmazken geldiğiydi.
well-lit streets;
of the first law of travel
as your readiness to surrender.
hazır olduğunuz kadar güçlüsünüz.
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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