Pico Iyer: The beauty of what we'll never know
Пико Айер: Прелесть неведения
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
с группой грубоватых мужчин,
for a bar of chocolate at home.
плитки шоколада у меня дома.
between palaces and pagodas.
мимо дворцов и пагод.
he had come to the city from his village.
о своём переезде из деревни в город.
в области математики
under a military dictatorship,
военной диктатуры трудна,
he could make a living.
единственный способ заработать на жизнь.
he actually slept in his trishaw
ночевал в велорикше,
off the all-night train.
первых пассажиров ночного поезда.
that in certain ways,
by foreign cultures --
crowded streets,
down rough, wild alleyways.
пустынным переулкам.
я не мог понять, где нахожусь.
could happen to me now.
может случиться что угодно.
и проводил меня в хижину,
крошечной комнаты.
he had ever received
в числе прочего,
every moment that you're not,
постоянно напоминают об обратном,
of things, either.
as we are unsettled
we've been lucky enough
new ideas and discoveries
волнующих идей и открытий,
pushed excitingly forwards.
знания подводят нас.
or uneasy or carried out of yourself,
who showed me the laws of physics
которые объяснили мне законы физики
three times three makes nine.
minus three makes nine,
на минус три равно девять,
that almost feels like trust.
isn't always ignorance.
противопоставляется знанию.
it's the things I don't know
and pushed me forwards
и заставляют двигаться вперёд
to everybody around me.
with the Dalai Lama.
reassurance and confidence
и вселить уверенность,
going to get world peace?"
economist Daniel Kahneman
по экономике Даниел Канеман
researching human behavior,
изучает поведение человека.
of what we think we know
to ignore our ignorance."
игнорировать наше неведение».
is going to win this weekend,
выиграет на этой неделе,
мы находимся во тьме неведения.
истинная суть близости.
is going to do tomorrow?
ваш возлюбленный завтра?
as some people call them,
were eating from the tree of life.
если бы ели с дерева жизни.
начали откусывать плоды
of good and evil,
раздражительность
a little too late, perhaps,
им стали известны
that we need to know,
that are better left unexplored.
что следовало бы оставить неисследованным.
in classrooms collecting facts,
собирая факты,
in the information business,
for two-and-a-half weeks,
которая длилась две с половиной недели,
about Japan's temples,
структуру японских храмов,
моему пониманию,
I couldn't explain to you yet,
very much at all
I'm making some new discovery,
я делаю новые открытия;
and seeing the hundred thousand things
can be more dangerous than ignorance.
может быть опаснее неведения.
is flooding into our little apartment,
заполняет нашу маленькую квартиру,
the weather forecast,
не посмотреть прогноз погоды,
writer now for 34 years.
профессиональным писателем,
when I'm not in charge,
когда я не принимаю решения,
than everything around me.
что я важнее всего вокруг.
well-lit streets;
ярко освещённым улицам;
of the first law of travel
правиле путешествий
as your readiness to surrender.
насколько готовы сдаться.
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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