Nilofer Merchant: Got a meeting? Take a walk

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast

Translator: Fran Ontanaya Reviewer: Òscar Aznar Alemany

What you're doing,

El que esteu fent,

right now, at this very moment,

ara mateix, en aquest mateix moment,

is killing you.

us està matant.

More than cars or the Internet

Més que els cotxes o l'Internet

or even that little mobile device we keep talking about,

o aquell dispositiu mòbil de què tant parlem,

the technology you're using the most almost every day

la tecnologia que utilitzeu quasi cada dia

is this, your tush.

és això, el vostre pandero.

Nowadays people are sitting 9.3 hours a day,

Avui en dia seiem 9,3 hores al dia,

which is more than we're sleeping, at 7.7 hours.

que és més del que dormim, 7,7 hores.

Sitting is so incredibly prevalent,

Seure és tan habitual

we don't even question how much we're doing it,

que no ens adonem que ho fem massa,

and because everyone else is doing it,

i com que tots els altres ho fan,

it doesn't even occur to us that it's not okay.

no s'ens ocorreix que no està bé.

In that way, sitting has become

En aquest sentit, seure s'ha convertit

the smoking of our generation.

en el fumar de la nostra generació.

Of course there's health consequences to this,

Per descomptat, hi ha conseqüències per a la salut,

scary ones, besides the waist.

esgarrifoses, a part de la cintura.

Things like breast cancer and colon cancer

Com ara el càncer de mama i el de còlon

are directly tied to our lack of physical [activity],

deriven directament de la manca d'activitat física.

Ten percent in fact, on both of those.

En un 10 %, de fet, en ambdós.

Six percent for heart disease,

En un 6 % per a malalties del cor,

seven percent for type 2 diabetes,

un 7 % per a la diabetis de tipus 2,

which is what my father died of.

del que el meu pare va morir.

Now, any of those stats should convince each of us

Aquestes estadístiques ens haurien de convèncer

to get off our duff more,

de moure més el cul,

but if you're anything like me, it won't.

però si sou com jo, no ho fareu.

What did get me moving was a social interaction.

El que em va fer moure va ser la interacció social.

Someone invited me to a meeting,

Em van convidar a una reunió,

but couldn't manage to fit me in

però ens era impossible

to a regular sort of conference room meeting, and said,

reunir-nos en una sala de reunions típica i em van dir:

"I have to walk my dogs tomorrow. Could you come then?"

"He de passejar els gossos demà. Podries venir-hi?"

It seemed kind of odd to do,

Em va semblar una idea estranya,

and actually, that first meeting, I remember thinking,

i en aquesta primera reunió vaig pensar:

"I have to be the one to ask the next question,"

"He de ser jo qui faci la següent pregunta",

because I knew I was going to huff and puff

perquè sabia que esbufegaria

during this conversation.

durant la conversa.

And yet, I've taken that idea and made it my own.

I tot i això, he pres aquesta idea i l'he fet meva.

So instead of going to coffee meetings

En comptes d'anar a fer un cafè

or fluorescent-lit conference room meetings,

o quedar en sales sota dels fluorescents,

I ask people to go on a walking meeting,

proposo fer una reunió a peu,

to the tune of 20 to 30 miles a week.

al voltant de 30 a 50 km a la setmana.

It's changed my life.

M'ha canviat la vida.

But before that, what actually happened was,

Abans d'això, el que passava

I used to think about it as,

you could take care of your health,

és que pensava

que pots tenir cura de la salut

or you could take care of obligations,

o pots tenir cura de les obligacions,

and one always came at the cost of the other.

i l'un sempre anava a costa de l'altre.

So now, several hundred of these walking meetings later,

Ara, centenars d'aquestes reunions a peu més tard,

I've learned a few things.

he après algunes coses.

First, there's this amazing thing

Primer, hi ha això increïble

about actually getting out of the box

de trencar les rutines

that leads to out-of-the-box thinking.

que ens porta a innovar.

Whether it's nature or the exercise itself, it certainly works.

Tant si és la natura o l'exercici mateix, funciona sens dubte.

And second, and probably the more reflective one,

I segon, una cosa més reflexiva,

is just about how much each of us

és com podem veure les solucions

can hold problems in opposition

de dues necessitats com a oposades

when they're really not that way.

quan realment no ho són.

And if we're going to solve problems

Si volem solucionar problemes

and look at the world really differently,

i mirem el món d'una manera innovadora,

whether it's in governance or business

tant si és sobre govern o negocis

or environmental issues, job creation,

o aspectes mediambientals, creació d'ocupació…

maybe we can think about how to reframe those problems

potser podem trobar un nou plantejament

as having both things be true.

per solucionar totes dues coses.

Because it was when that happened

Perquè va ser llavors,

with this walk-and-talk idea

amb això de parlar i caminar,

that things became doable and sustainable and viable.

que les coses es van tornar factibles, sostenibles i viables.

So I started this talk talking about the tush,

He començat la xerrada parlant del pandero

so I'll end with the bottom line, which is,

i l'acabaré mullant-me el cul, dient:

walk and talk.

passegeu i xerreu.

Walk the talk.

Feu passejar la xerrada.

You'll be surprised at how fresh air drives fresh thinking,

Us sorprendrà com l'aire fresc porta idees fresques

and in the way that you do,

i, si ho feu,

you'll bring into your life an entirely new set of ideas.

gaudireu d'un nou món ple d'idees.

Thank you.

Gràcies.

(Applause)

(Aplaudiments)