I found a few defects in its transcript. So here is my corrected version of this transcript, followed by my translation into English:
So this is already rather delicate information, but I have even worse to tell you: next to fake news, there is something that you may not know, it is mute news. These are the true things that you don't know, you don't hear, and don't seek. You will never hear them. (Laughs) There's a lot of absolutely true stuff that you don't have a chance to believe, because you're not exposed to those things. On the one hand, we have the false things that take up a lot of space, on the other hand, we have the true things that we are not looking for because we are not motivated to look for the true things because it is expensive. So you come here..., you pay for your seat to listen to people, you have a panel of speakers and you say to yourself: “Who are we coming to listen to ? It's not just anyone who comes to speak, except me. These are the people who are there, to whom we give the floor, because we think they have something interesting to say. So we're not going to go and question the local tramp, the person who missed his life, it's sad, that's how it is, we don't do it. We will be interested in interesting people. Who do this ? The organizers, who are lovely. They are over there, hello. But they have their personal biases, their opinions, their beliefs. Maybe they have their faults? I guess it has to happen. How do they make a choice? They make a choice that will be - they will take people who are - it is not the crashed planes, it is the survivors, the people who have the floor on this stage, it is a tiny fraction, we have no access to what people who are not on the stage are saying. Maybe you have some interesting things to say, but I have the microphone, so I speak. (Laughs) From there, the motto of TED talks is: “Ideas worth spreading”. This is what is interesting. Who decides that? It's the people who invite the people. An interesting idea, it is not necessarily true. What is interesting is not always useful in understanding the world. What is interesting is what is interesting, we are well advanced. So we regularly hear in the “TED talk” format, a little less tonight, but it often happens, people who will talk to you about things that are fashionable, subversive, shocking, funny. There are plenty of ways to find something interesting. What filters do we use to choose topics? Sure, it's interesting, but is it worth recasting? It is debatable and I do not have the answer. (Laughs) Sorry, we're doing what we can. The problem is the persistence of refuted beliefs. You were told about it earlier, we all have false beliefs and we keep them for a lot of reasons and especially, because we don't want to know how ignorant we are, that we only know that. We want to believe that we know things. We don't want to be uncertain: it's uncomfortable. Suddenly, we will pride ourselves on believing things, we will listen to people who tell us stories and in this type of format we love success stories. We are going to come and tell us that: Bill Gates, he's great because he did that, or Elon Musk or Steve Jobs, look well, there are plenty of TED conferences where you are told about the lives of these people or others who are successful, or they come to talk to you about their lives, but are successful people experts in their personal success? Do they know why they succeeded? I don't know either, because I don't have the answer to everything. In any case, they and those who come to talk to you about the success of others, they deliver motivating, stimulating, uplifting, inspiring stories to you, one less fashionable word misses, that is "relevant". What we hear is not always relevant. Because in the end, these are people who come to talk to you about success, about obstacles that were overcome. You realize yourself, you see? So basically, we're talking about success and motivation, it's important but: 100% of the corpses that line Mount Everest were once extremely motivated people. (Laughs). The difference between the one who dies up there and the one who returns is not that he was less motivated. There is something else that has played a role: luck, chance, organization, but being motivated is never enough. Yes, Bill Gates, he was very motivated. This is not why he succeeded. So we have some interesting stories and it's super interesting. But do we learn anything from this? So I'm telling you about successes - and we all know actually, look deep inside, we know we learn a lot more from our failures. The proof in pictures: it is written bigger [What lets us learn: Success / Failure]. (Laughs) You learn a lot more, because when you succeed all the time, maybe you haven't found what is important to be successful. But when we fail, we look for what went wrong and we find what we missed and there, we learned something. By giving voice to those who are successful in their lives, who tell you: “It's easy, you just have to want it. You see, it's not complicated. "And when you don't listen to the guy next door, who failed, who says:" I struggled, I wanted too, I was as motivated as others", you think that being motivated, it's enough. So, big mistake. But we like these stories for various reasons: because of the survivor bias but also because of the bias we call internality: the fundamental attribution error. (...). It is the fact that we want our success to be explained by our personal qualities: “It is because I am talented myself that I succeed". And therefore on the other side, failures, it's because of others. If I want to believe this, I need to listen to those who are successful in order to do like them. Because they, thanks to their qualities and their approach, succeeded. This bias, is extremely perverse, because on the one hand, I neglect to be interested in failures, I believe that my personal qualities will allow me to succeed, and I will blame those who do not succeed because it is their fault. But if we look at the real criteria that determine if we are going to be successful in life. Rich or poor, in fact. I'm going to tell you something that is never told at a TED conference: work, motivation, of course, is really good - be motivated, work well - but in reality, it is: who are your parents, what language you speak, what school you attend, your friends, the networks around you, the opportunities you are lucky to have. Chance: that's what basically determines your successes or your failures. And you can't help it. When I tell you this, I am robbing you of your power to decide your life. I'm the villain of the story, I'm sorry, that's the way it is. So we are very motivated not to believe what I'm telling you, so we are very motivated to listen to what others say. Me, people don't listen to me but they invite me, so I speak. Thanks a lot for the invitation. Conclusion: beware of yourself. Let us beware of ourselves. Beware of the TED Talks, TED lectures format, which will flatter you. Beware of me, of course, because I am no one and I have no authority to tell you who to beware of. And pay attention that it would suffice to ask yourself the question and slow down your inferences to ask yourself: but is what I believe true or false? Because being smart is having a big engine in the car, and being rational is having a good brake. If you never brake, you'll hit the wall. And if you're a big car, you're going to hit the wall hard. So you can be hyper smart and hyper biased, so beware of smart people more than others because when they mess up, they mess up harder. And since we are here among people of good company, intelligent, educated, etc. beware of yourself, you are the most dangerous people in this room, because you are the only ones. Thank you