Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling | Emilie Wapnick | TED

Prevoditelj: Sonja Žarić Recezent: Ivan Stamenković

Raise your hand if you've ever been asked the question

Podignite ruku ako su vas ikad upitali pitanje

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"Što želiš biti kad odrasteš?"

Now if you had to guess,

Kad bi morali pogađati,

how old would you say you were when you were first asked this question?

koliko mislite da ste imali godina kad su vas prvi puta to pitali?

You can just hold up fingers.

Možete podići samo dva prsta.

Three. Five. Three. Five. Five. OK.

Tri. Pet. Tri. Pet. Pet. OK.

Now, raise your hand if the question

Sada, podignite ruku ako vam je pitanje

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"Što želiš biti kad odrasteš?"

has ever caused you any anxiety.

ikad stvaralo tjeskobu.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Any anxiety at all.

Bilo kakvu tjeskobu.

I'm someone who's never been able to answer the question

Ja sam osoba koja nikad nije uspjela odgovoriti na pitanje

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"Što želiš biti kad odrasteš?"

See, the problem wasn't that I didn't have any interests --

Vidite, problem nije bio što nemam nikakvih interesa --

it's that I had too many.

nego što sam ih imala previše.

In high school, I liked English and math and art and I built websites

U srednjoj školi sam voljela engleski jezik i matematiku i umjetnost i radila sam web stranice

and I played guitar in a punk band called Frustrated Telephone Operator.

i svirala gitaru u punk bendu pod imenom Frustrirani telefonski operater.

Maybe you've heard of us.

Možda ste čuli za nas.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

This continued after high school,

Ovo se nastavilo poslije srednje škole,

and at a certain point, I began to notice this pattern in myself

i u određenom trenutku, sam počela primjećivati obrasce kod sebe

where I would become interested in an area

gdje bih se zainteresirala za neko područje

and I would dive in, become all-consumed,

i bacila bih se na to, postala obuzeta,

and I'd get to be pretty good at whatever it was,

i postala bih prilično dobra u bilo čemu,

and then I would hit this point where I'd start to get bored.

i onda bih došla do točke gdje je postalo dosadno.

And usually I would try and persist anyway,

Ali bih svejedno pokušala ustrajati,

because I had already devoted so much time and energy

zato što sam već posvetila toliko vremena i energije

and sometimes money into this field.

i ponekad i novca u to područje.

But eventually this sense of boredom,

No, naposlijetku taj osjećaj dosade,

this feeling of, like, yeah, I got this, this isn't challenging anymore --

taj osjećaj, kao, da, shvatila sam to, ovo više nije izazov --

it would get to be too much.

taj osjećaj bi postao previše.

And I would have to let it go.

I morala bih napustiti sve.

But then I would become interested in something else,

Onda bih postala obuzeta nečim drugim,

something totally unrelated, and I would dive into that,

nečim totalno nepovezanim, i bacila bih se na to.

and become all-consumed, and I'd be like, "Yes! I found my thing,"

i postala obuzeta s tim, i bilo bi, "To! Našla sam svoju stvar!"

and then I would hit this point again where I'd start to get bored.

i onda bih opet došla do te točke gdje počinje dosada,

And eventually, I would let it go.

i naposlijetku, opet bih sve napustila.

But then I would discover something new and totally different,

No, onda bih otkrila nešto novo i potpuno drukčije,

and I would dive into that.

i opet bih se bacila na to.

This pattern caused me a lot of anxiety,

Ovaj obrazac mi je donio jako veliku tjeskobu,

for two reasons.

iz dva razloga.

The first was that I wasn't sure

Prvi, nisam bila sigurna

how I was going to turn any of this into a career.

kako ću išta od tog pretvoriti u karijeru.

I thought that I would eventually have to pick one thing,

Mislila sam da ću konačno morati izabrati jednu stvar,

deny all of my other passions,

zanemariti sve ostale strasti,

and just resign myself to being bored.

i pomiriti se da će mi biti dosadno.

The other reason it caused me so much anxiety

Drugi razlog, koji mi je donio toliku tjeskobu

was a little bit more personal.

je bio malo više osobniji.

I worried that there was something wrong with this,

Brinula sam da je nešto pogrešno sa tim,

and something wrong with me for being unable to stick with anything.

i da je nešto pogrešno sa mnom zato što se ne mogu posvetiti ničemu,

I worried that I was afraid of commitment,

brinula sam da bojim opredjeljenja,

or that I was scattered, or that I was self-sabotaging,

ili da sam razbacana, ili da samu sebe sabotiram,

afraid of my own success.

da se bojim vlastitog uspjeha.

If you can relate to my story and to these feelings,

Ako se suosjećate sa mojom pričom i ovim osjećajima,

I'd like you to ask yourself a question

želim da se upitate pitanje

that I wish I had asked myself back then.

koje bih ja htjela da sam se upitala tada.

Ask yourself where you learned to assign the meaning of wrong or abnormal

Upitajte se gdje ste naučili davati značenje pogrešno ili nenormalno

to doing many things.

svestranosti.

I'll tell you where you learned it:

Reći ću vam gdje ste naučili:

you learned it from the culture.

kultura vas je naučila.

We are first asked the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

Prvi puta nas pitaju pitanje "Što želiš biti kad odrasteš?"

when we're about five years old.

kad smo otprilike pet godina.

And the truth is that no one really cares what you say when you're that age.

Istina je da nitko zaista ne mari što ćete reći u toj dobi.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

It's considered an innocuous question,

Pitanje se neškodljivo postavlja,

posed to little kids to elicit cute replies,

maloj djeci da bi izmamili slatke odgovore,

like, "I want to be an astronaut," or "I want to be a ballerina,"

kao, "Želim biti astronaut," ili "Želim biti balerina,"

or "I want to be a pirate."

ili "Bit ću gusar."

Insert Halloween costume here.

Ovdje ubacite kostim za Noć vještica.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

But this question gets asked of us again and again as we get older

No, ovo pitanje nam postavljaju iznova kako odrastamo

in various forms -- for instance, high school students might get asked

u različitim oblacima -- na primjer, učenika srednje škole će pitati

what major they're going to pick in college.

koji će predmet izabrati za glavni na fakultetu.

And at some point,

I u nekom trenutku,

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"Što želiš biti kad odrasteš?"

goes from being the cute exercise it once was

prelazi iz nekadašnje slatke upotrebe

to the thing that keeps us up at night.

u stvar koja nas drži budnima noću.

Why?

Zašto?

See, while this question inspires kids to dream about what they could be,

Vidite, iako ovo pitanje nadahne djecu da sanjaju što žele biti,

it does not inspire them to dream about all that they could be.

ne nadahne ih da sanjaju o svemu što mogu biti.

In fact, it does just the opposite,

U stvari, postiže upravo suprotno,

because when someone asks you what you want to be,

jer kad vas netko upita što želite biti,

you can't reply with 20 different things,

ne možete odgovoriti na 20 različitih načina,

though well-meaning adults will likely chuckle and be like,

iako će se dobronamjerni odrasli vjerojatno nasmijati i reći,

"Oh, how cute, but you can't be a violin maker and a psychologist.

"O, kako slatko, ali ne možeš proizvoditi violine i biti psiholog.

You have to choose."

Moraš birati."

This is Dr. Bob Childs --

Ovo je Dr. Bob Childs --

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

and he's a luthier and psychotherapist.

i on je lutijer i psihoterapeut.

And this is Amy Ng, a magazine editor turned illustrator, entrepreneur,

A ovo je Amy Ng, urednica časopisa, koja je postala ilustratorica, poduzetnica,

teacher and creative director.

učiteljica i kreativna direktorica.

But most kids don't hear about people like this.

Ali većina djece nikad ne čuje za ovakve ljude.

All they hear

Sve što čuju je

is that they're going to have to choose.

da će morati izabrati.

But it's more than that.

Ali to je više od toga.

The notion of the narrowly focused life

Pojam usko usmjerena života

is highly romanticized in our culture.

je jako romantiziran u našoj kulturi.

It's this idea of destiny or the one true calling,

Ta ideja sudbine ili jednog istinskog poziva,

the idea that we each have one great thing

ideja da svatko ima jednu veliku stvar

we are meant to do during our time on this earth,

koja mu je suđena da ju napravi tijekom života na zemlji,

and you need to figure out what that thing is

i da morate otkriti koja je to stvar

and devote your life to it.

i posvetiti svoj život tome.

But what if you're someone who isn't wired this way?

No, što ako ste netko tko ne funkcionira na taj način?

What if there are a lot of different subjects that you're curious about,

Što ako postoji mnoštvo različitih tema koje vas zanimaju,

and many different things you want to do?

i mnoštvo stvari koje želite raditi?

Well, there is no room for someone like you in this framework.

Dakle, u ovom okviru nema mjesta za nekoga poput vas.

And so you might feel alone.

Pa se možda osjećate usamljeno.

You might feel like you don't have a purpose.

Kao da nemate svrhu.

And you might feel like there's something wrong with you.

Kao da nešto nije u redu s vama.

There's nothing wrong with you.

Sve je u redu s vama.

What you are is a multipotentialite.

Ono što ste vi, to je multipotencijalit.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

A multipotentialite is someone with many interests and creative pursuits.

Multipotencijalit je osoba sa mnoštvom interesa i kreativnih težnji.

It's a mouthful to say.

Za zapetljati jezik.

It might help if you break it up into three parts:

Pomaže ako razdvojite na tri djela:

multi, potential, and ite.

multi, potencijal, i it.

You can also use one of the other terms that connote the same idea,

Također, možete koristiti jedan od izraza koji označavaju istu ideju,

such as polymath, the Renaissance person.

kao što je polimat, renesansna osoba.

Actually, during the Renaissance period,

Zapravo, tijekom Renesanse,

it was considered the ideal to be well-versed in multiple disciplines.

smatralo se idealnim biti dobro upućen u mnoštvo disciplina.

Barbara Sher refers to us as "scanners."

Barbara Sher nas naziva "skenerima".

Use whichever term you like, or invent your own.

Koristite koji god izraz želite, ili izmislite svoj vlastiti.

I have to say I find it sort of fitting that as a community,

Moram reći da smatram prikladnim što se kao zajednica,

we cannot agree on a single identity.

ne možemo dogovoriti oko jednog identiteta.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

It's easy to see your multipotentiality

Lako je vidjeti svoj multipotencijal

as a limitation or an affliction that you need to overcome.

kao ograničenje ili nesreću koju je potrebno prebroditi.

But what I've learned through speaking with people

No, ono što sam naučila razgovarajući s ljudima

and writing about these ideas on my website,

i pišući o ovim idejama na svojoj web stranici,

is that there are some tremendous strengths to being this way.

je da postoje neke ogromne prednosti u ovome.

Here are three

Evo tri

multipotentialite super powers.

super moći multipotencijalita.

One: idea synthesis.

Jedan: sinteza ideja.

That is, combining two or more fields

To znači, kombinacija dva ili više područja

and creating something new at the intersection.

i stvaranje nečeg novog na presjeku.

Sha Hwang and Rachel Binx drew from their shared interests

Sha Hwang i Rachel Binx su crtali iz svojih zajedničkih interesa

in cartography, data visualization, travel, mathematics and design,

za kartografiju, vizualizaciju podataka, putovanja, matematiku i dizajn,

when they founded Meshu.

kad su osnovali Meshu.

Meshu is a company that creates custom geographically-inspired jewelry.

Meshu je tvrtka koja stvara po narudžbi geografski nadahnut nakit.

Sha and Rachel came up with this unique idea

Sha i Rachel su došli na ovu jedinstvenu ideju

not despite, but because of their eclectic mix of skills and experiences.

ne usprkos, nego zbog svoje eklektične mješavine vještina i iskustava.

Innovation happens at the intersections.

Inovacija se događa na presjecima.

That's where the new ideas come from.

Odatle dolaze nove ideje.

And multipotentialites, with all of their backgrounds,

A multipotencijaliti, sa svim svojim pozadinama,

are able to access a lot of these points of intersection.

su sposobni pristupiti mnogim od tih točaka presjeka.

The second multipotentialite superpower

Druga super moć multipotencijalita

is rapid learning.

je rapidno učenje.

When multipotentialites become interested in something,

Kada se multipotencijaliti zainteresiraju za nešto,

we go hard.

oni prionu ozbiljno.

We observe everything we can get our hands on.

Promatramo sve čega se možemo dočepati.

We're also used to being beginners,

Također smo navikli biti početnici,

because we've been beginners so many times in the past,

jer smo toliko puta u prošlosti bili početnici,

and this means that we're less afraid of trying new things

a to znači da se manje bojimo probati nove stvari

and stepping out of our comfort zones.

i izlaziti iz zone udobnosti.

What's more, many skills are transferable across disciplines,

Čak štoviše, mnoge vještine se mogu prenijeti na druge discipline,

and we bring everything we've learned to every new area we pursue,

a mi donosimo sa sobom sve što smo naučili u svako novo područje,

so we're rarely starting from scratch.

tako da rijetko počinjemo od ničega.

Nora Dunn is a full-time traveler and freelance writer.

Nora Dunn je putnik puno radno vrijeme i honorarni pisac.

As a child concert pianist, she honed an incredible ability

Kao koncert pijanist tijekom djetinjstva, izbrusila je nevjerojatnu sposobnost

to develop muscle memory.

da razvija mišićnu memoriju.

Now, she's the fastest typist she knows.

Sada je najbrži daktilograf kojeg zna.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Before becoming a writer, Nora was a financial planner.

Prije nego je postala pisac, Nora je bila financijski planer.

She had to learn the finer mechanics of sales

Morala je naučiti finu mehaniku prodaje

when she was starting her practice,

kad je pokretala svoju praksu,

and this skill now helps her write compelling pitches to editors.

i ta vještina joj sad pomaže da uvjerljivo ubjedi urednike.

It is rarely a waste of time to pursue something you're drawn to,

Rijetko je gubitak vremena slijediti nešto što vas privlači,

even if you end up quitting.

iako ćete na kraju odustati.

You might apply that knowledge in a different field entirely,

Možda ćete iskoristiti to znanje u potpuno drukčijem području,

in a way that you couldn't have anticipated.

na način koji niste mogli očekivati.

The third multipotentialite superpower

Treća super moć multipotencijalita

is adaptability;

je prilagodljivost;

that is, the ability to morph into whatever you need to be

to znači, sposobnost da se oblikujete u ono što trebate biti

in a given situation.

u određenoj situaciji.

Abe Cajudo is sometimes a video director, sometimes a web designer,

Abe Cajudo je ponekad redatelj spotova, ponekad web dizajner,

sometimes a Kickstarter consultant, sometimes a teacher,

ponekad savjetnik za Kickstarter, ponekad učitelj,

and sometimes, apparently, James Bond.

a ponekad, očito, James Bond.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

He's valuable because he does good work.

Dragocjen je jer dobro radi posao.

He's even more valuable because he can take on various roles,

Dragocjeniji je jer može poprimiti različite uloge,

depending on his clients' needs.

u zavisnosti od potrebe klijenata.

Fast Company magazine identified adaptability

Fast Company časopis je označio prilagodljivost

as the single most important skill to develop in order to thrive

kao najbitniju vještinu koju treba razviti za napredak

in the 21st century.

u 21. stoljeću.

The economic world is changing so quickly and unpredictably

Ekonomski svijet se mijenja toliko brzo i nepredvidivo

that it is the individuals and organizations that can pivot

da će napredovati osobe i organizacije koje se mogu okretati

in order to meet the needs of the market that are really going to thrive.

prema potražnji tržišta.

Idea synthesis, rapid learning and adaptability:

Sinteza ideja, rapidno učenje i prilagodljivost:

three skills that multipotentialites are very adept at,

tri vještine kojima su multipotencijaliti vrlo vični,

and three skills that they might lose if pressured to narrow their focus.

i tri vještine koje mogu izgubiti sužavanjem fokusa zbog pritiska.

As a society, we have a vested interest in encouraging multipotentialites

Kao društvo možemo steći korist u poticanju multipotencijalita

to be themselves.

da budu kakvi jesu.

We have a lot of complex, multidimensional problems in the world right now,

Imamo mnogo složenih, multidimenzionalnih problema na svijetu trenutno,

and we need creative, out-of-the-box thinkers to tackle them.

i treba nam da ih se late kreativni, mislioci izvan-kutije.

Now, let's say that you are, in your heart, a specialist.

Sada, recimo da ste u duši, specijalist.

You came out of the womb knowing you wanted to be a pediatric neurosurgeon.

Izašli ste iz utrobe znajući da želite biti pedijatrijski neurokirurg.

Don't worry -- there's nothing wrong with you, either.

Ne brinite -- s vama je, također, sve u redu.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

In fact, some of the best teams are comprised of a specialist

U stvari, neki od najboljih timova su sazdani od specijalista

and multipotentialite paired together.

i multipotencijalita zajedno.

The specialist can dive in deep and implement ideas,

Specijalist se može udubiti i provesti ideje,

while the multipotentialite brings a breadth of knowledge to the project.

dok multipotencijalit donosi dašak znanja u projekt.

It's a beautiful partnership.

To je predivno partnerstvo.

But we should all be designing lives and careers

No, svi bi trebali dizajnirati živote i karijere

that are aligned with how we're wired.

koje su u skladu sa načinom na koji funkcioniramo.

And sadly, multipotentialites are largely being encouraged

Nažalost, multipotencijaliti se većinom ohrabruju

simply to be more like their specialist peers.

da jednostavno budu više kao njihovi kolege specijalisti.

So with that said,

Rekavši to,

if there is one thing you take away from this talk,

ako postoji jedna stvar koju možete zapamtiti iz ovog govora,

I hope that it is this:

nadam se da je ova:

embrace your inner wiring, whatever that may be.

prigrlite svoj način, kakav god on bio.

If you're a specialist at heart,

Ako ste specijalist u duši,

then by all means, specialize.

onda se svakako specijalizirajte.

That is where you'll do your best work.

Tamo ćete napraviti najbolji posao.

But to the multipotentialites in the room,

No, multipotencijalitima u prostoriji,

including those of you who may have just realized

uključujući onima koji su to upravo

in the last 12 minutes that you are one --

u zadnjih 12 minuta shvatili --

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

to you I say:

vama kažem:

embrace your many passions.

prigrlite svoje mnoštvo strasti.

Follow your curiosity down those rabbit holes.

Pratite svoju znatiželju u te zečje rupe.

Explore your intersections.

Istražite svoje presjeke.

Embracing our inner wiring leads to a happier, more authentic life.

Prihvaćanje svog načina dovodi do sretnijeg, autentičnijeg života.

And perhaps more importantly --

A možda još i bitnije --

multipotentialites, the world needs us.

multipotencijaliti, svijet nas treba.

Thank you.

Hvala vam!

(Applause)

(Pljesak)