Name: Weird, or just different?
Uploaded: 2010-01-29T08:54:00Z
Duration: 2 min 25 s
Description: "There's a flip side to everything," the saying goes, and in 2 minutes, Derek Sivers shows this is true in a few ways you might not expect.

"There's a flip side to everything," the saying goes, and in 2 minutes, Derek Sivers shows this is true in a few ways you might not expect.

Weird, or just different?

Deeply held assumptions often flip when seen through another culture’s lens. In America, streets have names and blocks are unnamed, but in Japan, blocks have names and streets do not. In China, some doctors are paid only when their patients stay healthy. Even the downbeat in music changes meaning across continents. Opposites can both hold truth, revealing the hidden logic in what first seems strange.