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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, imagine you're standing on a street anywhere in America
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.00,0:00:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a Japanese man comes up to you and says,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.00,0:00:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Excuse me, what is the name of this block?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.00,0:00:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you say, "I'm sorry, well, this is Oak Street, that's Elm Street.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.00,0:00:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is 26th, that's 27th."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.00,0:00:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "OK, but what is the name of that block?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.00,0:00:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, "Well, blocks don't have names.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.00,0:00:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Streets have names; blocks are just the
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.00,0:00:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unnamed spaces in between streets."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.00,0:00:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He leaves, a little confused and disappointed.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.00,0:00:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, now imagine you're standing on a street, anywhere in Japan,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.00,0:00:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you turn to a person next to you and say,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.00,0:00:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Excuse me, what is the name of this street?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.00,0:00:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They say, "Oh, well that's Block 17 and this is Block 16."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.00,0:00:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you say, "OK, but what is the name of this street?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.00,0:00:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they say, "Well, streets don't have names.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.00,0:00:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blocks have names.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.00,0:00:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just look at Google Maps here. There's Block 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.00,0:00:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of these blocks have names,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.00,0:00:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the streets are just the unnamed spaces in between the blocks.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.00,0:00:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you say then, "OK, then how do you know your home address?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.00,0:01:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "Well, easy, this is District Eight.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.00,0:01:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's Block 17, house number one."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.00,0:01:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, "OK, but walking around the neighborhood,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.00,0:01:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I noticed that the house numbers don't go in order."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.00,0:01:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "Of course they do. They go in the order in which they were built.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.00,0:01:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first house ever built on a block is house number one.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.00,0:01:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second house ever built is house number two.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.00,0:01:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Third is house number three. It's easy. It's obvious."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.00,0:01:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I love that sometimes we need to
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.00,0:01:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go to the opposite side of the world
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.00,0:01:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to realize assumptions we didn't even know we had,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.00,0:01:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and realize that the opposite of them may also be true.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.00,0:01:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, for example, there are doctors in China
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.00,0:01:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who believe that it's their job to keep you healthy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.00,0:01:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, any month you are healthy you pay them,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.00,0:01:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when you're sick you don't have to pay them because they failed
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.00,0:01:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at their job. They get rich when you're healthy, not sick.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.00,0:01:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.00,0:01:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In most music, we think of the "one"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.00,0:01:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the downbeat, the beginning of the musical phrase: one, two, three, four.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.00,0:01:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in West African music, the "one"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.00,0:01:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is thought of as the end of the phrase,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.00,0:01:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the period at the end of a sentence.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.00,0:01:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you can hear it not just in the phrasing, but the way they count off their music:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.00,0:02:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two, three, four, one.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.00,0:02:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this map is also accurate.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.00,0:02:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.00,0:02:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a saying that whatever true thing you can say about India,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.00,0:02:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the opposite is also true.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.00,0:02:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, let's never forget, whether at TED, or anywhere else,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.00,0:02:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.00,0:02:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the opposite may also be true.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.00,0:02:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Domo arigato gozaimashita.