So, imagine you're standing on a street anywhere in America and a Japanese man comes up to you and says,
Predstavte si, �e stoj�te na ulici kdeko�vek v Amerike a pr�de k V�m Japonec a sp�ta sa,
"Excuse me, what is the name of this block?"
"Prep��te, ako sa naz�va tento blok?"
And you say, "I'm sorry, well, this is Oak Street, that's Elm Street. This is 26th, that's 27th."
Odpoviete, "Neviem. Toto je Oak Street a to Elm Street. Toto je 26-ta a to 27-ma."
He says, "OK, but what is the name of that block?"
On povie, "Aha, ok. Ako sa vol� ten blok?"
You say, "Well, blocks don't have names. Streets have names; blocks are just the unnamed spaces in between streets."
Odvet�te, "No, bloky nemaj� men�. Ulice maj� men�, bloky s� len bezmenn� priestory medzi ulicami."
He leaves, a little confused and disappointed.
Odídete trochu zmätený a sklamaný.
So, now imagine you're standing on a street, anywhere in Japan, you turn to a person next to you and say,
Teraz si predstavte V�s st� na ulici niekde v Japonsku, oto��te sa k osobe ved�a V�s a poviete,
"Excuse me, what is the name of this street?"
"Prep��te, ako sa vol� t�to ulica?"
They say, "Oh, well that's Block 17 and this is Block 16."
Odpovedia, "�, to je blok 17 a to je blok 16."
And you say, "OK, but what is the name of this street?"
A Vy poviete, "Ok, ale ako sa vol� t�to ulica?"
And they say, "Well, streets don't have names. Blocks have names. Just look at Google Maps here. There's Block 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. All of these blocks have names, and the streets are just the unnamed spaces in between the blocks.
A oni na to, "No, ulice nemaj� men�. Bloky maj� men�. Pozrite sa na t�to Google mapu. Je na nej blok 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. V�etky tie bloky maj� men�. Ulice medzi nimi s� len bezmenn� priestory.
And you say then, "OK, then how do you know your home address?"
Poviete potom, "Ok, a ako pozn�te Va�u vlastn� adresu?"
He said, "Well, easy, this is District Eight. There's Block 17, house number one."
Povie, "Jednoducho, toto je distrikt osem. Blok 17, dom číslo 1."
You say, "OK, but walking around the neighborhood, I noticed that the house numbers don't go in order."
Vy na to, "Ok, ale pre�iel som okolo bloku a v�imol si, �e ��sla domov nejd� v porad�."
He says, "Of course they do. They go in the order in which they were built. The first house ever built on a block is house number one. The second house ever built is house number two. Third is house number three. It's easy. It's obvious."
Odpovie, "Jasn�, �e id�. S� v porad�, v akom boli postaven�. Prv� dom postaven� v tomto bloku m� ��slo jedna. Druh� dom postaven� po �om m� ��slo dva. Tret� je dom s ��slom tri. Je to �ahk�. Je to samozrejm�."
So, I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions we didn't even know we had, and realize that the opposite of them may also be true.
Milujem na tom, �e niekedy mus�me prejs� na koniec sveta, aby sme si uvedomili svoje predsudky a pochopili, �e ich opak m�e by� tie� pravdou.
So, for example, there are doctors in China who believe that it's their job to keep you healthy. So, any month you are healthy you pay them, and when you're sick you don't have to pay them because they failed at their job. They get rich when you're healthy, not sick. (Applause)
V ��ne s� napr�klad lek�ri, ktor� veria, �e ich pr�cou je udr�a� �ud� zdrav�ch. Plat�te im za ka�d� mesiac pre�it� v zdrav�, a ke� ochoriete, plati� nemus�te, lebo si neodviedli svoju pr�cu. Bohatn�, ke� ste zdrav�, nie chor�. (Potlesk)
In most music, we think of the "one" as the downbeat, the beginning of the musical phrase: one, two, three, four. But in West African music, the "one" is thought of as the end of the phrase, like the period at the end of a sentence. So, you can hear it not just in the phrasing, but the way they count off their music: two, three, four, one.
V��inou v hudbe mysl�me na "jedna" ako za�iatok hudobnej fr�zy. Jedna - dva tri �tyri. V Z�padoafrickej hudbe je "jedna" koncom fr�zy ako bodka na konci vety. Po�u� to nielen vo fr�zovan�, ale aj v sp�sobe, ak�m po��taj� hudbu. Dva, tri, �tyri, jedna.
And this map is also accurate. (Laughter)
A t�to mapa je tie� presn�. (Smiech)
There's a saying that whatever true thing you can say about India, the opposite is also true. So, let's never forget, whether at TED, or anywhere else, that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true. Domo arigato gozaimashita.
Existuje pr�slovie, �e �oko�vek pravdiv� poviete o Indii, opak je tie� pravdou. Nezabudnime teda, �e �i na TEDe alebo inde, akoko�vek skvele my�lienky po�ujete, ich opak m�e by� tie� pravdou. Domo arigato gozaimashita.