Pico Iyer: The beauty of what we'll never know
Pico Iyer: Det fina med vad vi aldrig kommer veta
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
en grupp tuffa män
for a bar of chocolate at home.
för en chokladkaka hemma.
between palaces and pagodas.
mellan palats och pagoder.
he had come to the city from his village.
hur han kom till staden från sin by.
under a military dictatorship,
under ett militärt diktatorskap,
he could make a living.
att livnära sig på.
he actually slept in his trishaw
att han faktiskt sov i sin riksha
off the all-night train.
som steg av nattåget.
that in certain ways,
att på vissa sätt,
by foreign cultures --
crowded streets,
packade gatorna,
down rough, wild alleyways.
i tuffa, vilda gränder.
för var jag var,
could happen to me now.
skulle kunna hända mig nu.
och ledde mig till en hydda,
he had ever received
som han någonsin fått
man aldrig skulle besöka annars,
every moment that you're not,
varje gång som man inte är det,
of things, either.
gå till botten med saker heller.
as we are unsettled
we've been lucky enough
har vi varit tursamma nog
new ideas and discoveries
spännande nya idéer och upptäckter
pushed excitingly forwards.
or uneasy or carried out of yourself,
orolig eller bortförd från dig själv,
who showed me the laws of physics
som visade mig fysikens lagar
three times three makes nine.
minus three makes nine,
that almost feels like trust.
som känns som tillit.
isn't always ignorance.
inte alltid okunnighet.
it's the things I don't know
att de saker jag inte vet om
and pushed me forwards
än de saker jag redan känner till.
to everybody around me.
alla runtomkring mig.
with the Dalai Lama.
med Dalai Lama.
reassurance and confidence
trygghet och förtroende
going to get world peace?"
säger den mycket visa mannen,
economist Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman,
researching human behavior,
på att forska i mänskligt beteende,
of what we think we know
på vad vi tror att vi vet
to ignore our ignorance."
bortse från vår okunnighet."
is going to win this weekend,
kommer vinna denna helg,
då vi har rätt.
som den sanna intimiteten ligger.
is going to do tomorrow?
kommer göra imorgon?
as some people call them,
som vissa kallar dem,
were eating from the tree of life.
så länge de åt från livets träd.
of good and evil,
om gott och ont,
a little too late, perhaps,
that we need to know,
som vi måste veta,
that are better left unexplored.
som inte bör utforskas.
visste jag allt, förstås.
in classrooms collecting facts,
i klassrum, samlat in fakta,
in the information business,
i informationsbranschen,
for two-and-a-half weeks,
och stannade i två och en halv vecka,
med en uppsats på 40 sidor
about Japan's temples,
om Japans tempel,
I couldn't explain to you yet,
jag inte kan förklara för er,
very much at all
gör en ny upptäckt,
I'm making some new discovery,
and seeing the hundred thousand things
på hundratusentals saker
can be more dangerous than ignorance.
kan vara farligare än okunnighet.
att du aldrig kommer känna dem.
is flooding into our little apartment,
strålar in i vår lilla lägenhet,
the weather forecast,
titta på väderprognosen,
vara förmörkat, distraherat,
writer now for 34 years.
when I'm not in charge,
när det inte är jag som bestämmer,
than everything around me.
än allt runtom mig.
well-lit streets;
välupplysta vägarna;
of the first law of travel
om resandets första lag
as your readiness to surrender.
som din villighet att ge upp.
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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