The Beauty of What We'll Never Know | Pico Iyer | TED

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  • Almost 30 years ago, Pico Iyer took a trip to Japan, fell in love with the country and moved there. A keen observer of the human spirit, Iyer professes that he now feels he knows far less about Japan -- or, indeed, about anything -- than he thought he knew three decades ago. In this lyrical meditation on wisdom, Iyer expands on this curious insight about knowledge gained with age: that the more we know, the more we see how little we know.
    Learn how to make your travels truly transformative in Pico Iyer’s upcoming TED Course “How to take a life-changing journey.” You’ll learn how to set an intention and choose a destination, how to make the most out of your arrival and be fully present while you travel, how to navigate cultural differences and how to live differently when you return home. Enroll now: tedtalks.social/3aO9LQl
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  • @TED
    @TED  ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Learn how to make your travels truly transformative in Pico Iyer’s upcoming TED Course “How to take a life-changing journey.” You’ll learn how to set an intention and choose a destination, how to make the most out of your arrival and be fully present while you travel, how to navigate cultural differences and how to live differently when you return home. Enroll now:
    tedtalks.social/3aO9LQl

  • @arpitranka23
    @arpitranka23 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    There's something beautiful about the way this man speaks!

  • @justbeckley
    @justbeckley ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Being human is much more important than being fully sure. ♥️

  • @gerarddouchesr.7969
    @gerarddouchesr.7969 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    "Some things are beyond the mind, thus beyond understanding. The mind has to realize it has limitations. All infinite and never-ending things are beyond the mind, and the essence of everything is infinite and never-ending."-a passage from "The Present" on *the truth contest site* ...it is time to see our limitations and just know the big picture of life. The book tells you the big picture.

  • @AnyaSiberia
    @AnyaSiberia 7 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Secret to having a great life - saying "yes" to experiences!

    • @pumpuppthevolume
      @pumpuppthevolume 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Anya Semenova.... no
      :P

    • @JohnVKaravitis
      @JohnVKaravitis 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "Novel" experiences! Agreed!
      John V. Karavitis

    • @chaz-e
      @chaz-e 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      3x experience? NO.

    • @letrolltwo5625
      @letrolltwo5625 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Have u tried sending me 100€?

    • @JohnDoe-hr8gb
      @JohnDoe-hr8gb 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      have you tried this drug called...

  • @theodorakatsaros7847
    @theodorakatsaros7847 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Love this, so therapeutic and calming.

  • @eddycaballero5438
    @eddycaballero5438 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I keep watching this video and every single time. It just hits.

  • @mackenzief3764
    @mackenzief3764 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this is such a calming talk, definitely taking this on board.

  • @taawunpk
    @taawunpk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I got a lot from this talk... Must Appreciate....Great Work Done

  • @A-a-ron888
    @A-a-ron888 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Anyone else think he sounds like Varus from Game of Thrones, like not only the way he sounds, but the manner in which he talks?

  • @RA-bz8cy
    @RA-bz8cy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "You're only as strong as your readiness to surrender".

  • @Chris-kw7nx
    @Chris-kw7nx 7 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    I think it's beautiful to never know what happened to Trump's hair.

  • @vaibhavgupta20
    @vaibhavgupta20 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    he has given so many great ted talk. he is like dan ariely.

  • @pandecocojam
    @pandecocojam ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful and romantic.
    I wonder though if Pico Iyer has ever been broke, and what his thoughts are on living with uncertainty - journeying through life - when you are poor.

  • @BoJackub
    @BoJackub 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    شكرا المترجمة حنان والمدقق حسين
    محاظرة رائعة

  • @ashwinisriram591
    @ashwinisriram591 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonderful!

  • @3Ending
    @3Ending 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Somehow he reminds me of robin williams. :)

    • @mackenzief3764
      @mackenzief3764 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Right? he just has that peaceful nature about him :)

    • @3Ending
      @3Ending 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That and his facial expressions actually

  • @jimorayan8703
    @jimorayan8703 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    إجيت من قناة دروس أون لاين أستاذ أحمد ، مشكور على الفيديو

  • @Mortal2064
    @Mortal2064 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've been scared of the idea of going to a foreign country with a language I didn't understand like Japan because... well, I've always said "what if I mess up on some matter of hospitality or something" and "I don't know how I would handle surviving there with the language barrier alone" (plus the additional fear of having gone to the country but not done enough), but I forgot (or perhaps didn't even know) that one point of travelling was to plunge into the unknown, into places I wouldn't be (in more than one sense) otherwise...

  • @talitha3637
    @talitha3637 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    perfect!

  • @denver326
    @denver326 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thank's a lot TED u are the only shiny thing in internrt

  • @larryfitzgeraldjr
    @larryfitzgeraldjr 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was great

  • @dizzydino1
    @dizzydino1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    A Marvel this man ❣️

  • @taylorr7106
    @taylorr7106 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live ted talks keep up the great ones

  • @UdayaBajracharya
    @UdayaBajracharya 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    arigatō gozaimasu, perfect!

  • @PieterPatrick
    @PieterPatrick 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    TED, you had a video taken down of Bearing.
    Copyright? What about fair use???
    I'll bet you're not going to answer this.....

  • @sandywellsart
    @sandywellsart 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    His voice narrates a travel series of commercials for AirBnb

  • @user-iv1bm5iy7j
    @user-iv1bm5iy7j 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    great

  • @RyanPortugal
    @RyanPortugal 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love

  • @meowtherainbowx4163
    @meowtherainbowx4163 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hey, TED, why did you take down Bearing's video? I didn't get to see it before it was taken down, apparently due to a copyright claim from you guys. All of his videos have fallen under Fair Use in the past, so what makes it different this time?

  • @everettworld1765
    @everettworld1765 7 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    "Iyer expands on this curious insight about knowledge gained with age: that the more we know, the more we see how little we know." How innovative: Socrates thought about it too - about TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO. Come on...

  • @mlarenp7031
    @mlarenp7031 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    As Socrates says, "I know one thing, that I know nothing"

  • @Alex-wg7gt
    @Alex-wg7gt 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    that was a nice speech with some points to think about. I know that he doesn't mean to make people into walking questionmarks, but having knowledge is power, however you look at it. Although power might not mean happiness.

  • @wolfferoni
    @wolfferoni 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He sounds like Conleth Hill or Varys from Game of Thrones

  • @emansugulle9055
    @emansugulle9055 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Don't settle..... Just live

  • @vetiarvind
    @vetiarvind 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was an important talk. More importantly, this makes us think about thinking itself. How much do we really know? Here we had the US govt. say that the Taliban could never really get a foothold and here we are, in a month they've overrun the country. Do experts really know a lot? Rolf dobelli's book shows data that experts aren't that better at predicting than a random picker. What then about us mere mortals.

  • @tomgosy
    @tomgosy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Anyone else feel this speech was only therapeutic?

  • @kailowe9346
    @kailowe9346 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    hey im new here, can anybody tell me who gives the best speeches/drmonstrations on this channel? thanks

  • @forqanal-musawi9914
    @forqanal-musawi9914 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    good

  • @tsukuyomikai5480
    @tsukuyomikai5480 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Why are Ted talks so vague these days?

    • @stevylabo14
      @stevylabo14 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you think it too.!

    • @bitterlyhonest2307
      @bitterlyhonest2307 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      cause Indians

    • @vetiarvind
      @vetiarvind 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      probably because abstract stuff goes over most people's smartphone obsessed heads these days

  • @neopets6
    @neopets6 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder if we will have TED Live soon, anybody?

  • @JARMAK-MUSIC
    @JARMAK-MUSIC 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    he spoke exaltly 10 minutes damn!

  • @Mohammedhani2000
    @Mohammedhani2000 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    راقي

  • @000MULLER
    @000MULLER 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just kuz you dont get it, dont dislike the video!

    • @000MULLER
      @000MULLER 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** Just kuz you dont get it dont be angry man.

  • @in1606
    @in1606 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    can you please do a video on maternal narcissism(narcissistic mother)......how can a scapegoat show everyone(family) the real truth...

  • @00great226
    @00great226 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I don't know if I know that I know what I actually don't know the things I know.

    • @chaos6130
      @chaos6130 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      我不知道我是否知道我是知道不知道那些我不知道我知道的事前。 Hey, dude, nice job.

  • @ThinkerThunker
    @ThinkerThunker 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Funny that some think the message here is that we should all travel.

  • @MrJ3
    @MrJ3 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Life is not knowing.

  • @amanpoddar8747
    @amanpoddar8747 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    did pico write a book about this?

  • @shashanksams
    @shashanksams 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why does Ted upload their videos after a month after it was uploaded in their app .They could upload at the same time, right.

    • @CLEANDrumCovers
      @CLEANDrumCovers 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Shashank Sam They do it as an incentive for people to use their app, by getting early access to talks before the general public in TH-cam.

    • @shashanksams
      @shashanksams 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Daniel J. De Jesús of course. you are right

  • @shinnguyen9200
    @shinnguyen9200 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is he demonstrating the theory of Negative capability?

  • @hamzaa_almahry9211
    @hamzaa_almahry9211 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    مين اللي جاي من دروس اونلاين 😄👍

  • @ik04
    @ik04 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I actually understand his theorem: He is living in pure truth.

  • @knatten007
    @knatten007 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    yo

  • @cleg6y
    @cleg6y 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Imwas going to watch a nice video then out of no more this video can not video because it has been copyright claimed by Ted Talks. Why?

  • @chrisgewirtz5875
    @chrisgewirtz5875 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    He's talking about "yugen".

  • @steliosp1770
    @steliosp1770 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Remember when TED talks actually had something of value to offer?

  • @MrHimypeeps
    @MrHimypeeps 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Varys?

  • @salmanige318
    @salmanige318 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    5th.

  • @mariolyromerososa1584
    @mariolyromerososa1584 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    super like😋

  • @helpfuladdvice7445
    @helpfuladdvice7445 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    nothing was said.

  • @beliasphyre3497
    @beliasphyre3497 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    *TED*
    Ideas worth _silencing._
    #IdeasWorthSilencing

  • @cray32
    @cray32 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    11th

  • @MbariHogun
    @MbariHogun 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How Beautiful You Are ~

  • @e_fugu
    @e_fugu 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    boku no pico

  • @ExpertSridhar
    @ExpertSridhar 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    .

  • @dkkempion8744
    @dkkempion8744 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Nonsense.

    • @pumpuppthevolume
      @pumpuppthevolume 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      DK Kempion...... I know right.... WTF is this.....ted is so much hit and miss these days

    • @dkkempion8744
      @dkkempion8744 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      pumpuppthevolume
      Zactly. It's "WTF?" anymore. That's why I'm also subbed to Big Think.

  • @homershomie01
    @homershomie01 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    he moved to Japan so he could be taller then most the people. This guy is all over the place. fail.