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

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.
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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

[@gerarddouchesr.7969]

"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.

[@Chris-kw7nx]

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

[@ammosophobia]

It hid

[@YourBeingParanoid]

It's in the orangutan protection refuge with the rest of his family.

[@rufuscollins2834]

...and Bidens IQ

[@arpitranka23]

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

[@3Ending]

Somehow he reminds me of robin williams. :)

[@mackenzief3764]

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

[@3Ending]

That and his facial expressions actually

[@AnyaSiberia]

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

[@pumpuppthevolume]

Anya Semenova.... no :P

[@JohnVKaravitis]

"Novel" experiences! Agreed! John V. Karavitis

[@chaz-e]

3x experience? NO.

[@letrolltwo5625]

Have u tried sending me 100€?

[@JohnDoe-hr8gb]

have you tried this drug called...

[@everettworld1765]

"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...

[@justbeckley]

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

[@e_fugu]

boku no pico

[@mlarenp7031]

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

[@theodorakatsaros7847]

Love this, so therapeutic and calming.

[@MrJ3]

Life is not knowing.

[@tsukuyomikai5480]

Why are Ted talks so vague these days?

[@stevylabo14]

you think it too.!

[@bitterlyhonest2307]

cause Indians

[@vetiarvind]

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

[@taawunotaraqqi]

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

[@PieterPatrick]

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

[@dkkempion8744]

Nonsense.

[@pumpuppthevolume]

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

[@dkkempion8744]

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

[@hamzaa_almahry9211]

مين اللي جاي من دروس اونلاين 😄👍

[@jimorayan8703]

أنا :-)

[@yaraoteir2965]

hamzaa_ almahry انا 😅😅😅

[@forqanal-musawi9914]

hamzaa_ almahry ني😂

[@nouuufnomo7075]

hamzaa_ almahry انا 🙃

[@yaraoteir2965]

انا😅😅

[@jimorayan8703]

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

[@mohamedjassim8707]

مثلج

[@دعاءمحمد-ح4ر]

وانا كمان

[@mohamedjassim8707]

+‫دعاء محمد‬‎ استفاديتي ؟

[@pandecocojam]

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.

[@Mortal2064]

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...

[@RA-bz8cy]

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

[@A-a-ron888]

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?

[@tomgosy]

Anyone else feel this speech was only therapeutic?

[@meowtherainbowx4163]

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?

[@in1606]

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

[@00great226]

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

[@chaos6130]

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]

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

[@kailowe9346]

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

[@ammosophobia]

I can now tell you who doesn't.

[@kailowe9346]

Universal Exports who?

[@shinnguyen9200]

Is he demonstrating the theory of Negative capability?

[@eddycaballero5438]

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

[@000MULLER]

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

[@000MULLER]

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

[@wolfferoni]

He sounds like Conleth Hill or Varys from Game of Thrones

[@knatten007]

yo

[@helpfuladdvice7445]

nothing was said.

[@MbariHogun]

How Beautiful You Are ~

[@denver326]

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

[@mackenzief3764]

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

[@BoJackub]

شكرا المترجمة حنان والمدقق حسين محاظرة رائعة

[@beliasphyre3497]

*TED* Ideas worth _silencing._ #IdeasWorthSilencing

[@talitha3637]

perfect!

[@JARMAK-MUSIC]

he spoke exaltly 10 minutes damn!

[@ammosophobia]

TED forces you to

[@vetiarvind]

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.

[@UdayaBajracharya]

arigatō gozaimasu, perfect!

[@larryfitzgeraldjr]

This was great

[@sandywellsart]

His voice narrates a travel series of commercials for AirBnb

[@Mohammedhani2000]

راقي

[@MrHimypeeps]

Varys?

[@vaibhavgupta20]

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

[@cleg6y]

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?

[@rayhopkins5324]

TheACGafmer

[@amanpoddar8747]

did pico write a book about this?

[@emansugulle9055]

Don't settle..... Just live

[@dizzydino1]

A Marvel this man ❣️

[@ExpertSridhar]

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[@taylorr7106]

I live ted talks keep up the great ones

[@forqanal-musawi9914]

good

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5th.

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super like😋

[@cray32]

11th

[@ابوسبأمحمدالحميري]

great

[@RyanPortugal]

Love

[@neopets6]

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

[@ammosophobia]

Pay $7,500 and you can see live

[@ashwinisriram591]

Wonderful!

[@shashanksams]

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]

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 KZbin.

[@shashanksams]

Daniel J. De Jesús of course. you are right

[@chrisgewirtz5875]

He's talking about "yugen".

[@ammosophobia]

His son

[@chrisgewirtz5875]

A concept in Japanese aesthetics, but I'm referring to it's use in Zen Buddhism.

[@steliosp1770]

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

[@Alex-wg7gt]

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.

[@homershomie01]

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

[@ik04]

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