So imagine you’re standing on a street anywhere in America and a Japanese man come up to you and say’s “Uh excuse me what is the name of this block and you say “I’m sorry well this is oak Street and that’s elm Street this is twenty-sixth that’s twenty-seventh .” and he says “Okay but what is the name of that block ?” you say “Well blocks don’t have names streets have names blocks are just the unnamed spaces between streets .” He leaves a little confused and disappointed So now imagine that you’re standing on a street anywhere in Japan you turn to a person next to you and say “Excuse me uh what is the name of this street ?” And they say “Oh well that’s block seventeen and this is block sixteen .” And you say “Okay but what is the name of this street ?” And they say “Well streets don’t have names blocks have names just look at Google maps here there’s block fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen all of these blocks have names and the streets are just the unnamed spaces between the blocks .” And you say “Okay then how do you know your home address ?” they said “Well easy this is district eight there’s block seventeen house number one .” And you say “Okay but walking around the neighborhood I noticed the house numbers don’t go in order .” They said “Of course they do they go in the order in which they were built The first house ever built one a block is house number one the second house ever built is house number two the third is house number three it’s easy it’s obvious .” So I love that sometimes we need to go to opposite side of the world t realize assumptions we didn’t even know we had and realize that the opposite of them may also be true So for example there are doctors in China that 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 healthy not sick In heheh in most music we think of the one as the down beat 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 in the way they count of their music two three four one and this map is also accurate heh 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 gazi muasta yay Share it that’s video on the human network Cisco welcome to the human network
