Isaac Lidsky: What reality are you creating for yourself?
Isaac Lidsky: Quina realitat estàs creant per a tu mateix?
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by quickly wagging their tails
naden agitant la cua ràpidament
la petita Dorothy va contestar,
little Dorothy responded,
by wagging their heads."
endarrere agitant el seu cap."
verdader com qualsevol altre.
as true as any other.
by wagging their heads.
agitant el seu cap.
of fish swimming backwards.
peixos nadant cap endarrere.
and faulty leaps of logic.
incorrectes.
and they are wrong.
ells no.
what we can and cannot do.
podem fer o no.
frantically wagging their heads
enrere agitant frenèticament el seu cap
five facts about myself.
sobre mi mateix.
with an honors degree in mathematics.
amb grau d'honor en matemàtiques.
a construction company in Orlando.
de construcció a Orlando.
de televisió.
to a rare genetic eye disease.
d'una malaltia genètica de l'ull.
to two US Supreme Court justices.
dos Tribunals Suprems dels EEUU.
only care about the television show.
els hi importa el show de televisió.
"Saved by the Bell: The New Class."
The New Class", de la NBC.
nerdy character on the show,
i estudiós del programa,
major acting challenge
tot un desafiament d'actuació
with number four, my blindness?
la meva ceguesa?
about so-called disabilities.
sobre les anomenades discapacitats.
suposicions incorrectes dels altres
others' incorrect assumptions
about my blindness, however.
de la meva ceguesa.
to live my life eyes wide open.
la meva vida amb els ulls ben oberts.
peixos que naden cap endarrere
those backwards-swimming fish
my retinas progressively deteriorated.
retines es van anar deteriorant.
of mirrors and illusions.
de miralls i il·lusions.
to spot in a store
a una botiga
a urinal I was touching, not a sink,
un urinari, no una aigüera,
la forma real.
que tenia a la mà,
the photograph in my hand,
the image depicted.
la imatge representada.
and disappeared in my reality.
i desapareixien en la meva realitat.
transitory images,
transitòries,
in my crumbling kaleidoscope,
meu calidoscopi trencat,
personal, virtual reality
única i personal
construïda pel nostre cervell.
constructed by our brain.
de neurociència d'aficionats.
of amateur neuroscience.
about 30 percent of your brain.
del 30 per cent del vostre cervell.
eight percent for touch
un 8 per cent per al tacte
can send your visual cortex
enviar al vostre còrtex visual
pieces of information.
only an additional billion.
un bilió addicional.
of your brain by volume
és un terç del vostre cervell en volum
of your brain's processing resources.
dels recursos de processament del cervell.
tan irresistible.
of sight is so compelling.
sight is an illusion.
la vista és una il·lusió.
understanding of the world,
comprensió conceptual del món,
opinions, emotions, mental attention.
opinions, emocions, atenció mental.
are linked in your brain to your sight.
lligades al vostre cervell a la vostra vista.
sentits, normalment subconscientment.
and usually occur subconsciously.
can literally change what you see.
canviar el que veus.
in a video, for example,
d'un vídeo, per exemple,
told to think about cheetahs or turtles.
pregunten per guepards o tortugues.
if you've just exercised,
si acabes de fer exercici,
at a fundamental contradiction.
fonamental.
mental construction of your own making,
complexa que fabriques tu mateix
del món al teu voltant.
of the world around you.
and you believe it.
i la creieu.
fins que es va trencar.
shattered the illusion.
va destruir la il·lusió.
només és una de les maneres
in many other ways.
de moltes altres maneres.
realitat.
anything is better than the uncertain.
qualsevol cosa és millor que l'incert.
for what you know,
que saps,
in place of the ambiguous,
l'ambigu,
per a això: "horrificació"
a great term for it: awfulizing.
el desconegut per l'horrible.
and think critically,
críticament,
deep inside your mind,
la vostra ment,
la vostra visió,
pensar críticament
for critical thought
disruptives.
opportunity to take action,
d'actuar,
its prophecies fulfill themselves.
com es compleixen les vostres profecies.
with my blinding disease,
la meva ceguesa,
arruïnaria la meva vida.
per a la meva independència.
for my independence.
an unremarkable life,
una vida poc excepcional,
but I believed it.
temors, però ho creia.
la meva realitat,
in little Dorothy's mind.
en la ment de la petita Dorothy.
the reality of my fear,
del meu temor,
eyes wide open?
amb els ulls ben oberts?
sobre la sort i l'èxit.
about luck and about success.
and understand the difference.
i compreneu la diferència.
realitat.
comes complete responsibility.
una responsabilitat completa.
into terrain uncharted and undefined.
cap al desconegut i l'indefinit.
beneïda.
amb la Dorothy,
als que anomenen els Tripskys,
whom we call the Tripskys,
to the family,
a la família,
a vosaltres mateixos?
and write your own fictions?
escriviu les vostres ficcions?
creating for yourself?
per a vosaltres mateixos?
in your relationships,
en les vostres relacions,
endarrere us faran molt mal.
do you great harm.
and unrealized potential,
perdudes i potencial desaprofitat,
worse than being blind
pitjor que ser cec
was a profound blessing,
una profunda benedicció,
em va donar visió.
leave the stage, just a question.
l'escenari, una pregunta.
of doers, of innovators.
d'executors, d'innovadors.
down in Florida,
companyia a Florida
do you have, and how do you overcome them?
els superes?
the biggest challenge became a blessing.
més gran es va tornar una benedicció.
[I.L.]: Sí.
in my leadership team meetings,
del meu equip de direcció,
expressions or gestures.
els gestos.
a lot more verbal feedback.
informació verbal.
to tell me what they think.
a dir-me el que pensen.
for me personally and for my company,
benedicció per a mi i la meva companyia,
at a far deeper level,
extremadament més profund,
that what they think truly matters.
el que ells pensen realment importa.
IL: Thank you, Bruno.
[I.L.]: Gràcies, Bruno.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Isaac Lidsky - Author, entrepreneurIsaac Lidsky has a very eclectic resume.
Why you should listen
Lidsky runs a big construction services company based in Florida, has co-founded an Internet startup and a nonprofit and is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). He graduated in math and computer science from Harvard and then added a law degree magna cum laude from the same university, clerked for US Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg and argued a dozen cases in federal court on behalf of the US Justice Department, not losing any. Earlier, he was a child television star in both commercials and series.
Lidsky's rich biography disguises a secret, which can be summarized in the title of his forthcoming book Eyes Wide Open: Overcoming Obstacles and Recognizing Opportunities In A World That Can’t See Clearly.
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