Carl Honore: In praise of slowness

Prevoditelj: Anja Kolobarić Recezent: Ivan Stamenković

What I'd like to start off with is an observation,

Htio bih započeti jednim opažanjem:

which is that if I've learned anything over the last year,

ako sam išta naučio u protekloj godini,

it's that the supreme irony

onda je to da je najveća ironija

of publishing a book about slowness

objavljivanja knjige o sporosti

is that you have to go around promoting it really fast.

u tome da promocija mora teći maksimalno brzo.

I seem to spend most of my time these days

Ovih dana većinu vremena provodim

zipping from city to city, studio to studio,

letanjem iz grada u grad, iz studija u studio,

interview to interview,

s intervjua na intervju

serving up the book in really tiny bite-size chunks.

secirajući knjigu.

Because everyone these days

Ovih dana

wants to know how to slow down,

svi žele znati kako usporiti,

but they want to know how to slow down really quickly. So ...

ali žele to naučiti jako brzo.

so I did a spot on CNN the other day

Nedavno sam nastupao na CNN-u

where I actually spent more time in makeup than I did talking on air.

gdje sam više vremena proveo šminkajući se nego nastupajući.

And I think that -- that's not really surprising though, is it?

To i ne treba toliko čuditi, zar ne?

Because that's kind of the world that we live in now,

U takvom svijetu sada živimo,

a world stuck in fast-forward.

u svijetu koji je zapeo u najvišoj brzini.

A world obsessed with speed,

Svijet opsjednut brzinom;

with doing everything faster, with cramming more and more

sve radimo brže, trpamo sve više i više aktivnosti

into less and less time.

u sve manje i manje vremena.

Every moment of the day feels like

Svaki trenutak našeg dana djeluje

a race against the clock.

kao utrka s vremenom.

To borrow a phrase from Carrie Fisher, which is

Posudit ću frazu Carrie Fisher,

in my bio there; I'll just toss it out again --

koja se nalazi i u mojoj biografiji,

"These days even instant gratification takes too long." (Laughter)

"Ovih dana i trenutnu zadovoljštinu predugo čekamo." (Smijeh)

And

A

if you think about how we to try to make things better, what do we do?

razmislite što radimo da popravimo stvari.

No, we speed them up, don't we? So we used to dial; now we speed dial.

Ubrzavanjem. Nekoć smo birali broj, sad brzo biramo.

We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk.

Umjesto čitanja tehnika brzog čitanja, umjesto hodanja brzinsko hodanje.

And of course, we used to date and now we speed date.

I naravno, nekoć smo išli na spojeve, a sad na brzinske spojeve.

And even things that are by their very nature slow --

Čak i stvari koje su same po sebi spore

we try and speed them up too.

pokušavamo ubrzati.

So I was in New York recently, and I walked past a gym

Nedavno sam u NY-u prolazio pored teretane

that had an advertisement in the window for a new course, a new evening course.

s reklamom za novi večernji tečaj vježbanja

And it was for, you guessed it, speed yoga.

za - znate i sami - ubrzani tečaj joge.

So this -- the perfect solution for time-starved professionals

To je savršeno rješenje za sve prezaposlene profesionalce

who want to, you know, salute the sun,

koji žele pozdraviti sunce,

but only want to give over about 20 minutes to it.

ali na to potrošiti tek 20 minuta.

I mean, these are sort of the extreme examples,

To su pomalo ekstremni primjeri,

and they're amusing and good to laugh at.

zanimljivi su, da se nasmijati na njih,

But there's a very serious point,

no ima tu i nešto ozbiljno,

and I think that in the headlong dash of daily life,

a u bezglavoj trci svakodnevnog života

we often lose sight of the damage

često izgubimo iz vida štetu

that this roadrunner form of living does to us.

koju nam nanosi ovaj život Ptice Trkačice.

We're so marinated in the culture of speed

Toliko smo uronjeni u kulturu brzine

that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes

da skoro ni ne primjećujemo koliko šteti

on every aspect of our lives --

svakom aspektu naših života -

on our health, our diet, our work,

našem zdravlju, prehrani, poslu,

our relationships, the environment and our community.

vezama, okolišu i zajednici.

And sometimes it takes

Nekada nam je potreban

a wake-up call, doesn't it,

poziv za uzbunu

to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives,

da nas upozori na to da jurimo kroz naše živote

instead of actually living them; that we're

umjesto da ih zaista živimo.

living the fast life, instead of the good life.

Da živimo brzim, a ne dobrim životima.

And I think for many people, that wake-up call

Mislim da mnogim ljudim kao poziv za uzbunu

takes the form of an illness.

posluži neka bolest.

You know, a burnout, or eventually the body says,

Pregorijevanje ili pak tijelo naposljetku kaže:

"I can't take it anymore," and throws in the towel.

"Ne mogu ja to više" i prizna poraz.

Or maybe a relationship goes up in smoke

Ili veza koja nam se obije o glavu

because we haven't had the time, or the patience,

jer nismo imali vremena ili strpljenja

or the tranquility,

ili mira

to be with the other person, to listen to them.

biti s drugom osobom, saslušati je.

And my wake-up call came when I started

Moj poziv za uzbunu došao je kad sam počeo

reading bedtime stories to my son,

sinu čitati priče za laku noć

and I found that at the end of day,

i shvatio sam da na kraju dana,

I would go into his room and I just couldn't slow down -- you know,

kad bih otišao u njegovu sobu, jednostavno nisam mogao usporiti.

I'd be speed reading "The Cat In The Hat."

Preletio sam mu "Mačak, ne diraj mi šešir".

I'd be -- you know, I'd be skipping lines here,

Preskakao sam redove,

paragraphs there, sometimes a whole page,

odlomke, a nekad i cijele stranice,

and of course, my little boy knew the book inside out, so we would quarrel.

a kako je on cijelu knjigu znao napamet, posvađali bismo se.

And what should have been the most relaxing, the most intimate,

Tako je ono što je trebao biti najopuštajući, najintimniji,

the most tender moment of the day,

najnježniji dio dana,

when a dad sits down to read to his son,

kad otac priča priču svome sinu,

became instead this kind of gladiatorial battle of wills,

postalo titanska borba umova,

a clash between my speed

sukob između moje brzine

and his slowness.

i njegove sporosti.

And this went on for some time,

To je malo potrajalo,

until I caught myself scanning a newspaper article

sve dok se nisam uhvatio skenirajući članak

with timesaving tips for fast people.

o tehnikama za uštedu vremena.

And one of them made reference to a series of books called

Jedan od njih spomenuo je komplet knjiga

"The One-Minute Bedtime Story."

"Jednominutna priča za laku noć."

And I wince saying those words now,

Sada trzam izgovarajući te riječi,

but my first reaction at the time was very different.

ali najprije sam reagirao znatno drugačije.

My first reflex was to say,

Najprije sam pomislio:

"Hallelujah -- what a great idea!

"Hvala Bogu! Sjajne li ideje!

This is exactly what I'm looking for to speed up bedtime even more."

Baš mi to treba da dodatno ubrzam odlazak na spavanje."

But thankfully,

No, srećom,

a light bulb went on over my head, and my next reaction was very different,

došao sam sebi i sljedeća reakcija bila je drugačija.

and I took a step back, and I thought,

Malo sam usporio i pomislio:

"Whoa -- you know, has it really come to this?

"Zar je zbilja došlo do ovoga?

Am I really in such a hurry that I'm prepared

Zar sam baš u tolikoj žurbi da sam spreman

to fob off my son with a sound byte at the end of the day?"

sinu prodati kratku priču na kraju dana?"

And I put away the newspaper --

Maknuo sam novine -

and I was getting on a plane -- and I sat there,

išao sam se na avion - i sjedio ondje.

and I did something I hadn't done for a long time -- which is I did nothing.

I učinio nešto što dugo nisam - ništa.

I just thought, and I thought long and hard.

Samo sam razmišljao, dugo i ozbiljno.

And by the time I got off that plane, I'd decided I wanted to do something about it.

Sišavši s aviona, odlučih učiniti nešto po tom pitanju.

I wanted to investigate this whole roadrunner culture,

Htio sam istražiti tu kulturu Ptice Trkačice

and what it was doing to me and to everyone else.

i što ista čini što meni, a što ostalima.

And I had two questions in my head.

U glavi su mi se pojavila dva pitanja.

The first was, how did we get so fast?

Prvo - kad smo se toliko ubrzali?

And the second is, is it possible,

Drugo - je li moguće,

or even desirable, to slow down?

ili čak poželjno, usporiti?

Now, if you think about

Ako razmislite o tome

how our world got so accelerated, the usual suspects rear their heads.

kako se svijet toliko ubrzao, sjetimo se uobičajenih sumnjivaca.

You think of, you know, urbanization,

Sjetimo se urbanizacije,

consumerism, the workplace, technology.

konzumerizma, radnih mjesta, tehnologije,

But I think if you cut through

ali ako zagrebemo dublje,

those forces, you get to what might be the deeper

dođemo do

driver, the nub of the question,

pravog krivca, biti pitanja:

which is how we think about time itself.

kako razmišljamo o vremenu kao takvom.

In other cultures, time is cyclical.

U drugim kulturama vrijeme je ciklično.

It's seen as moving in great,

Smatra se da se vrijeme kreće u velikim

unhurried circles.

spokojnim krugovima.

It's always renewing and refreshing itself.

Uvijek samo sebe obnavlja i osvježava,

Whereas in the West, time is linear.

dok je na Zapadu vrijeme linearno,

It's a finite resource;

ograničen resurs,

it's always draining away.

uvijek otječe.

You either use it, or lose it.

Ili ga iskoristiš ili ga izgubiš.

"Time is money," as Benjamin Franklin said.

Benjamin Franklin rekao je: "Vrijeme je novac",

And I think what that does to us psychologically

a mislim da je to izreka koja kod nas

is it creates an equation.

stvara psihološku jednadžbu.

Time is scarce, so what do we do?

Vremena je malo i što onda činimo?

Well -- well, we speed up, don't we?

Ubrzamo, zar ne?

We try and do more and more with less and less time.

Radimo što više u sve manje vremena.

We turn every moment of every day

Svaki trenutak svakog dana

into a race to the finish line --

pretvaramo u utrku do cilja -

a finish line, incidentally, that we never reach,

do cilja do kojega, usput budi rečeno, nikad ne stignemo,

but a finish line nonetheless.

ali do cilja u svakom slučaju.

And I guess that the question is,

Pretpostavljam da onda pitanje glasi:

is it possible to break free from that mindset?

je li moguće osloboditi se takvog načina razmišljanja?

And thankfully, the answer is yes, because

Srećom, odgovor je: da jer,

what I discovered, when I began looking around, that there is

kako sam otkrio kad sam to krenuo ispitivati,

a global backlash against this culture that

javlja se globalni otpor kulturi

tells us that faster is always better, and that busier is best.

koja nam govori da je brže uvijek bolje, a užurbano najbolje.

Right across the world, people are doing the unthinkable:

Diljem svijeta ljudi čine ono nezamislivo:

they're slowing down, and finding that,

usporavaju i otkrivaju

although conventional wisdom tells you that if you slow down, you're road kill,

da unatoč tome što se vjeruje da si mrtav ako usporiš,

the opposite turns out to be true:

ispada da je istina potpuno suprotna:

that by slowing down at the right moments,

usporavanjem u pravo vrijeme

people find that they do everything better.

ljudi shvaćaju da sve rade bolje.

They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better;

Bolje jedu, bolje vode ljubav, bolje vježbaju,

they work better; they live better.

bolje rade, bolje žive.

And, in this kind of cauldron

U ovoj mješavini

of moments and places and acts of deceleration,

trenutaka, i mjesta, i djela i usporavanja

lie what a lot of people now refer to as

leži ono što mnogo ljudi sada naziva

the "International Slow Movement."

"Internacionalni pokret sporosti".

Now if you'll permit me a small act of hypocrisy,

Dozvolite mi da budem malo licemjeran.

I'll just give you a very quick overview of

Nabrzinu ću vam ispričati

what's going on inside the Slow Movement. If you think of food,

o čemu se radi u Pokretu sporosti. Sjetite se hrane.

many of you will have heard of the Slow Food movement.

Mnogi od vas znaju za Pokret spore prehrane

Started in Italy, but has spread across the world,

- započet u Italiji, potom se proširio diljem svijeta

and now has 100,000 members

i sada ima 100 000 članova

in 50 countries.

u 50 zemalja.

And it's driven by a very simple and sensible message,

Vodi se jednostavnom i razumnom porukom:

which is that we get more pleasure and more health

crpimo više zadovoljstva i zdravlja

from our food when we

iz naše hrane

cultivate, cook and consume it at a reasonable pace.

kad je uzgajamo, kuhamo i konzumiramo normalnim tempom.

I think also the explosion of

Mislim da je i eksplozija

the organic farming movement, and the renaissance of farmers' markets,

pokreta organskog uzgoja, kao i povratak tržnica

are other illustrations

pokazatelj

of the fact that people are desperate to get away from

da ljudi očajnički žele pobjeći

eating and cooking and cultivating their food

od jedenja i kuhanja i uzgoja hrane

on an industrial timetable.

po industrijskom rasporedu.

They want to get back to slower rhythms.

Žele se vratiti sporijem ritmu života.

And out of the Slow Food movement has grown something

Iz Pokreta spore prehrane izrastao je

called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy,

pokret "Spori grad" koji je započeo u Italiji,

but has spread right across Europe and beyond.

ali proširio se Europom i šire.

And in this, towns

Tu gradovi

begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape,

ponovno razmišljaju o tome kako organizirati gradski krajolik

so that people are encouraged to slow down

kako bi se ljude potaklo da uspore,

and smell the roses and connect with one another.

pomirišu ruže i povežu se jedni s drugima,

So they might curb traffic,

pa obuzdaju promet,

or put in a park bench, or some green space.

postave klupe ili dodaju malo zelenih površina.

And in some ways, these changes add up to more than the sum of their parts,

Na neki način te promjene nisu samo zbroj svojih dijelova

because I think when a Slow City becomes officially a Slow City,

jer kad Spori grad i službeno postane Spori grad,

it's kind of like a philosophical declaration.

to je nešto poput filozofske deklaracije

It's saying to the rest of world, and to the people in that town,

koja govori ostatku svijeta da ljudi u tom gradu

that we believe that in the 21st century,

vjeruju da u 21. stoljeću

sporost ima svoju ulogu.

In medicine, I think a lot of people are deeply disillusioned

U medicini ljudi ostaju duboko razočarani

with the kind of quick-fix mentality

mentalitetom brzih rješenja

you find in conventional medicine.

prisutnih u konvencionalnoj medicini.

And millions of them around the world are turning

Milijuni ljudi diljem svijeta okreću se

to complementary and alternative forms of medicine,

komplementarnim i alternativnim oblicima medicine

which tend to tap into sort of

koje koriste neke

slower, gentler, more holistic forms of healing.

sporije, blaže, više holističke oblike liječenja.

Now, obviously the jury is out on many of these complementary therapies,

Još se odlučuje o mnogim od tih komplementarnih terapija.

and I personally doubt that the coffee enema

Ja osobno sumnjam da će ispiranje crijeva kavom

will ever, you know, gain mainstream approval.

ikad dobiti odobrenje većine populacije,

But other treatments

ali neki drugi tretmani

such as acupuncture and massage, and even just relaxation,

poput akupunkture i masaže, pa čak i običnog opuštanja

clearly have some kind of benefit.

očito imaju neke koristi.

And blue-chip medical colleges everywhere

a vrhunski medicinski fakulteti posvuda

are starting to study these things to find out how they work,

počinju ih proučavati i uviđaju kako funkcioniraju

and what we might learn from them.

i što mogu naučiti od njih.

Sex. There's an awful lot of fast sex around, isn't there?

Seks. Ima puno seksa na brzaka, zar ne?

I was coming to --

Svršavao sam šetnju -

well -- no pun intended there.

bez smjeranih dosjetki -

I was making my way, let's say, slowly to Oxford,

išao sam, recimo, polako do Oxforda,

and I went through a news agent, and I saw a magazine,

prošao pored kioska i vidio časopis

a men's magazine, and it said on the front,

za muškarce, a na naslovnici je pisalo:

"How to bring your partner to orgasm in 30 seconds."

"Kako svog partnera dovesti do orgazma u 30 sekundi."

So, you know, even sex

Čak se i trajanje seksa

is on a stopwatch these days.

ovih dana drži na oku.

Now, you know,

Znate,

I like a quickie as much as the next person,

volim i ja seks na brzaka,

but I think that there's an awful lot to be gained

ali mislim da puno toga možemo dobiti

from slow sex -- from slowing down in the bedroom.

sporim seksom, usporavanjem.

You know, you tap into that -- those deeper,

Pristupite li tim dubljim,

sort of, psychological, emotional, spiritual currents,

pomalo psihološkim, emocionalnim, duhovnim strujama,

and you get a better orgasm with the buildup.

dobit ćete bolji, jači orgazam.

You can get more bang for your buck, let's say.

Dobijete veći dobitak u odnosu na uloženo.

I mean, the Pointer Sisters said it most eloquently, didn't they,

Pointer Sisters najelokventnije su to objasnile

when they sang the praises of "a lover with a slow hand."

pjevajući hvale "ljubavniku spore ruke".

Now, we all laughed at Sting

Svi smo se smijali Stingu

a few years ago when he went Tantric,

kad se nedavno okrenuo tantri,

but you fast-forward a few years, and now you find couples of all ages

ali nekoliko godina kasnije parovi svih uzrasta

flocking to workshops, or maybe just

lete u radionice

on their own in their own bedrooms, finding ways

ili u vlastitim spavaćim sobama pronalaze načine

to put on the brakes and have better sex.

da uspore i iskuse bolji seks.

And of course, in Italy where -- I mean, Italians always seem to know

U Italiji, a oni izgleda uvijek znaju

where to find their pleasure --

gdje se krije užitak,

they've launched an official Slow Sex movement.

pokrenuli su službeni pokret sporog seksa.

The workplace.

Radno mjesto.

Right across much of the world --

Diljem većeg dijela svijeta,

North America being a notable exception --

s iznimkom Sjeverne Amerike,

working hours have been coming down.

radno vrijeme se sustavno snižava.

And Europe is an example of that,

Europa je primjer toga,

and people finding that their quality of life improves

a ljudi uočavaju da im se kvaliteta života povećava

as they're working less, and also

uz manje rada,

that their hourly productivity goes up.

ali i da im se produktivnost povećava.

Now, clearly there are problems with

Nešto očito nije u redu

the 35-hour workweek in France --

s 35-osatnim radnim tjednom u Francuskoj -

too much, too soon, too rigid.

previše, prerano, prekruto.

But other countries in Europe, notably the Nordic countries,

No, druge europske zemlje, posebice nordijske zemlje,

are showing that it's possible

pokazuju da je moguće

to have a kick-ass economy

imati odličnu ekonomiju

without being a workaholic.

bez radoholičarstva.

And Norway, Sweden,

Norveška, Švedska,

Denmark and Finland now rank

Danska i Finska sada su

among the top six most competitive nations on Earth,

među prvih šest najkonkurentnijih nacija na Zemlji,

and they work the kind of hours that would make the average American

a na njihovo radno vrijeme prosječan Amerikanac

weep with envy.

ima pravo biti ljubomoran.

And if you go beyond sort of the country level,

Ako odemo izvan razine država

down at the micro-company level,

na razinu mikro-kompanija,

more and more companies now are realizing

sve više tvrtki shvaća

that they need to allow their staff

da moraju dopustiti svojim zaposlenicima

either to work fewer hours or just to unplug --

ili kraće radno vrijeme ili pauze -

to take a lunch break, or to go sit in a quiet room,

pauze za ručak, da sjede u tihoj prostoriji,

to switch off their Blackberrys and laptops -- you at the back --

da isključe Blackberryje i laptope - hej, ti iza -

mobile phones,

mobitele

during the work day or on the weekend, so that they have time to recharge

tijekom radnog dana ili za vikend da imaju vremena za odmor

and for the brain to slide into that

i da se mozak prebaci

kind of creative mode of thought.

u kreativni način razmišljanja.

It's not just, though, these days,

No, ovih dana odrasli nisu jedini

adults who overwork, though, is it? It's children, too.

koji previše rade, nego i djeca.

I'm 37, and my childhood ended in the mid-'80s,

Imam 37 g., djetinjstvo mi je završilo sredinom osamdesetih

and I look at kids now, and I'm just amazed by the way they

i gledajući današnju djecu, zaprepašten sam

race around with more homework,

kako imaju sve više i više zadaće,

more tutoring, more extracurriculars

instruktora, izvannastavnih aktivnosti

than we would ever have conceived of a generation ago.

nego što nam je uopće bilo zamislivo prije koju generaciju.

And some of the most heartrending emails

Jedan od najsrcedrapateljskijih mejlova

that I get on my website

koje dobivam na svojoj stranici

are actually from adolescents

dolaze od samih adolescenata

hovering on the edge of burnout, pleading with me

koji su na rubu iscrpljenja, mole me

to write to their parents,

da pišem njihovim roditeljima

to help them slow down, to help them get off this

da im pomognem usporiti, maknuti ih s ove

full-throttle treadmill.

iscrpljujuće maratonske trake za trčanje.

But thankfully, there is a backlash there in parenting as well,

Srećom, javlja se otpor i u roditeljstvu

and you're finding that, you know, towns in the United States

i sada se gradovi u SAD-u

are now banding together and banning extracurriculars

udružuju i zabranjuju izvannastavne aktivnosti

on a particular day of the month, so that people can,

određenim danima u mjesecu, što omogućava

you know, decompress and have some family time, and slow down.

djeci da se odmore, provedu vrijeme s obitelji i uspore.

Homework is another thing. There are homework bans

Zadaća je druga stvar. Pojavljuju se zabrane zadaća

springing up all over the developed world

diljem razvijenog svijeta

in schools which had been piling on the homework for years,

u školama koje su godinama davale gomilu zadaće,

and now they're discovering that less can be more.

a sada uviđaju da više može biti manje.

So there was a case up in Scotland recently

Nedavno je bio slučaj u Škotskoj

where a fee-paying, high-achieving private school

gdje je visokouspješna privatna škola

banned homework

zabranila zadaće

for everyone under the age of 13,

svima ispod 13 godina.

and the high-achieving parents freaked out and said,

Nadobudni roditelji su poludjeli i rekli:

"What are you -- you know, our kids will fall" -- the headmaster said,

"Djeca će nam pasti!" Ravnatelj je rekao:

"No, no, your children need to slow down at the end of the day."

"Ne, vaša djeca na kraju dana trebaju malo usporiti."

And just this last month, the exam results came in,

Prošli mjesec stigli su rezultati ispita

and in math, science, marks went up 20 percent

i rezultati iz matematike i znanosti porasle su za 20%

on average last year.

u prosjeku prošle godine.

And I think what's very revealing is that

Mislim da puno toga govori to što

the elite universities, who are often cited as the reason

elitna sveučilišta, koje se često navodi kao razlog

that people drive their kids and hothouse them so much,

zašto roditelji preforsiraju svoju djecu,

are starting to notice the caliber of students

počinju primjećivati da vrhunski učenici

coming to them is falling. These kids have wonderful marks;

koji im dolaze padaju. Ta djeca imaju krasne ocjene,

they have CVs jammed with extracurriculars,

životopise toliko krcate izvannastavnim aktivnostima

to the point that would make your eyes water.

da bi vas duša zaboljela,

But they lack spark; they lack

ali nemaju ono nešto, nemaju

the ability to think creatively and think outside --

sposobnost kreativnog razmišljanja,

they don't know how to dream. And so what these Ivy League schools,

ne znaju sanjati. Ove elitne škole,

and Oxford and Cambridge and so on, are starting to send a message

Oxford, Cambridge i dr. počinju poručivati

to parents and students that they need to put on the brakes a little bit.

roditeljima i studentima da trebaju malo usporiti.

And in Harvard, for instance, they send out

Npr. na Harvardu šalju

a letter to undergraduates -- freshmen --

pisma brucošima

telling them that they'll get more out of life, and more out of Harvard,

u kojima im govore da će dobiti više od života i Harvarda

if they put on the brakes, if they do less,

ako malo uspore, ako rade manje,

but give time to things, the time that things need,

ali da posvete potrebno vrijeme tim stvarima,

to enjoy them, to savor them.

da uživaju u njima.

And even if they sometimes do nothing at all.

Čak i ako nekada ne rade baš ništa.

And that letter is called -- very revealing, I think --

Pismo je znamenito nazvano:

"Slow Down!" -- with an exclamation mark on the end.

"Uspori!" - s uskličnikom na kraju.

So wherever you look, the message, it seems to me, is the same:

Gdjegod gledali, čini mi se da je poruka ista:

that less is very often more,

manje je često više,

that slower is very often

sporo je često bolje.

better. But that said, of course,

Unatoč tome,

it's not that easy to slow down, is it?

nije lako usporiti, zar ne?

I mean, you heard that I got a speeding ticket

Čuli ste da sam kažnjen za prebrzu vožnju

while I was researching my book on the benefits of slowness,

dok sam istraživao o koristima sporosti.

and that's true, but that's not all of it.

To je istina, ali to nije sve.

I was actually en route to a dinner

Zapravo sam bio na putu za večeru

held by Slow Food at the time.

Spore prehrane u to vrijeme.

And if that's not shaming enough, I got that ticket in Italy.

Ako to nije dovoljno sramotno, kaznu sam dobio u Italiji.

And if any of you have ever driven on an Italian highway,

Ako je itko od vas vozio talijanskom autocestom,

you'll have a pretty good idea of how fast I was going.

znate koliko sam otprilike brzo vozio.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

But why is it so hard to slow down?

Ali zašto je tako teško usporiti?

I think there are various reasons.

Mislim da su razlozi brojni.

One is that speed is fun, you know, speed is sexy.

Prvo: brzina je zabavna, seksi.

It's all that adrenaline rush. It's hard to give it up.

Adrenalin je to, teško ga se ostaviti.

I think there's a kind of metaphysical dimension --

Tu postoji neka metafizička dimenzija

that speed becomes a way of walling ourselves off

u kojoj se brzinom ograđujemo

from the bigger, deeper questions.

od većih, dubljih pitanja.

We fill our head with distraction, with busyness,

Rastreseni smo i prezaposleni,

so that we don't have to ask,

pa se i ne stignemo zapitati

am I well? Am I happy? Are my children growing up right?

jesmo li dobro, jesmo li sretni, odrastaju li mi djeca dobro,

Are politicians making good decisions on my behalf?

odlučuju li političari ispravno u moje ime?

Another reason -- although I think, perhaps, the most powerful reason --

Drugi razlog, možda i najjači razlog

why we find it hard to slow down is the cultural taboo

zašto nam je tako teško usporiti jest kulturološki tabu

that we've erected against slowing down.

da smo ustali protiv usporenja.

"Slow" is a dirty word in our culture.

U našoj kulturi "sporo" je pogrdna riječ.

It's a byword for "lazy," "slacker,"

To je druga riječ za "lijenost", "ljenčinu"

for being somebody who gives up.

i nekoga tko odustaje.

You know, "he's a bit slow." It's actually synonymous

"Malo je spor" zapravo je sinonim

with being stupid.

za "glup je".

I guess what the Slow Movement -- the purpose of the Slow Movement,

Svrha Pokreta sporosti,

or its main goal, really, is to tackle that taboo,

njegov glavni cilj jest boriti se s tabuima

and to say that yes,

i reći: da,

sometimes slow is not the answer,

nekada sporost nije rješenje,

that there is such a thing as "bad slow."

postoji i "negativna sporost".

You know, I got stuck on the M25,

Nedavno sam zaglavio na cesti M25,

which is a ring road around London, recently,

što je obilaznica oko Londona.

and spent three-and-a-half hours there. And I can tell you,

Proveo sam tamo tri i pol sata,

that's really bad slow.

i to je već negativna sporost.

But the new idea,

Ali nova ideja,

the sort of revolutionary idea, of the Slow Movement,

pomalo revolucionarna ideja ovog pokreta

is that there is such a thing as "good slow," too.

jest da postoji i "pozitivna sporost".

And good slow is, you know, taking the time

Pozitivna sporost uključuje posvećivanje

to eat a meal with your family, with the TV switched off.

vremena za objed s obitelji s ugašenim TV-om.

Or taking the time to look at a problem from all angles

Ili za promatranje problema iz različitih gledišta

in the office to make the best decision

u uredu za što bolju

at work.

poslovnu odluku.

Or even simply just taking the time

Ili jednostavno uzimanje vremena

to slow down

da usporite

and savor your life.

i uživate u svom životu.

Now, one of the things that I found most uplifting

Ono što je mene najviše oduševilo

about all of this stuff that's happened around the book

u vezi svega što se dogodilo oko ove knjige

since it came out, is the reaction to it.

otkako je izašla jest reakcija na nju.

And I knew that when my book on slowness came out,

Znao sam da će je čim izađe

it would be welcomed by the New Age brigade,

dobro prihvatiti novovjekovna svita,

but it's also been taken up, with great gusto,

ali odlično ju je prihvatio

by the corporate world -- you know,

i poslovni svijet -

business press, but also

poslovni časopisi,

big companies and leadership organizations.

ali i velike tvrtke i vodeće organizacije

Because people at the top of the chain, people like you, I think,

jer i ljudi s vrha lanca, ljudi poput vas,

are starting to realize that there's too much

počinju shvaćati da je

speed in the system,

previše brzine u sustavu,

there's too much busyness, and it's time to find,

previše zaposlenosti i vrijeme je da otkrijemo,

or get back to that lost art of shifting gears.

ili ponovno otkrijemo, zaboravljenu umjetnost usporavanja.

Another encouraging sign, I think,

Ohrabruje i to

is that it's not just in the developed world

što ova ideja nije prihvaćena

that this idea's been taken up. In the developing world,

samo u razvijenom svijetu već i u zamljama u razvoju,

in countries that are on the verge of making that leap

u zemljama koje su na rubu ulaska

into first world status -- China, Brazil,

u zemlje prvog svijeta - Kina, Brazil,

Thailand, Poland, and so on --

Tajland, Poljska itd.

these countries have embraced the idea of the Slow Movement,

Te su zemlje prihvatile ideju Pokreta sporosti,

many people in them, and there's a debate going on

mnogi ljudi unutar njih, i trenutno se vodi rasprava

in their media, on the streets.

u medijima, na ulici.

Because I think they're looking at the West, and they're saying,

Pogledavaju prema Zapadu i misle:

"Well, we like that aspect of what you've got,

"Sviđa nam se aspekt toga što vi imate,

but we're not so sure about that."

ali za ovo ne znamo baš."

So all of that said, is it,

Nakon svega toga, pitanje je:

I guess, is it possible?

je li to moguće?

That's really the main question before us today. Is it possible

To je glavno današnje pitanje. Je li moguće

to slow down? And

usporiti?

I'm happy to be able to say to you

Sa zadovoljstvom tvrdim

that the answer is a resounding yes.

da odgovor glasi: definitivno jest.

And I present myself as Exhibit A,

Ja sam krunski primjer -

a kind of reformed and rehabilitated

reformirani i rehabilitirani

speed-aholic.

brzoholičar.

I still love speed. You know, I live in London,

Još uvijek volim brzinu - živim u Londonu,

and I work as a journalist,

novinar sam

and I enjoy the buzz and the busyness,

i volim zvuke užurbanosti,

and the adrenaline rush that comes from both of those things.

navalu adrenalina koju te stvari izazivaju.

I play squash and ice hockey,

Igram skvoš i hokej na ledu,

two very fast sports, and I wouldn't give them up for the world.

brze sportove, i ne bih ih se odrekao ni za što na svijetu.

But I've also, over the last year or so,

No, tijekom protekle godine

got in touch with my inner tortoise.

povezao sam se s pužom u sebi.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And what that means is that

To znači

I no longer

da se više ne pokušavam

overload myself gratuitously.

nemarno preopterećivati.

My default mode is no longer

Zadani način više mi nije

to be a rush-aholic.

brzoholičarski.

I no longer hear

Više ne čujem

time's winged chariot drawing near,

kako mi vrijeme istječe,

or at least not as much as I did before.

barem ne u onolikoj mjeri kao prije.

I can actually hear it now, because I see my time is ticking off.

Zapravo, sad ga čujem jer mi vrijeme stvarno istječe.

And the upshot of all of that is that

Pozitivna strana svega toga

I actually feel a lot happier, healthier,

jest da sam sretniji, zdraviji

more productive than I ever have.

i produktivniji nego ikad.

I feel like I'm living

Osjećam se kao da živim

my life rather than actually just racing through it.

svoj život umjesto da jurim kroz njega.

And perhaps, the most important

I možda ono što je najvažnije -

measure of the success of this

pokazatelj uspješnosti toga

is that I feel that my relationships are a lot deeper,

jest to što osjećam da su mi se veze produbile,

richer, stronger.

obogatile, osnažile.

And for me, I guess, the litmus test

A za mene je test za provjeru

for whether this would work, and what it would mean,

hoće li ovo funkcionirati i što će značiti

was always going to be bedtime stories, because that's sort of where

bio je povratak pričama za laku noć jer je tu

the journey began. And there too the news is

ova pustolovina započela.

rosy. You know,

I rezultat je ohrabrujuć.

at the end of the day, I go into my son's room.

Na kraju dana, odem u sinovu sobu,

I don't wear a watch. I switch off my computer,

ne nosim sat, ugasim računalo

so I can't hear the email pinging into the basket,

da ne čujem dolazne mejlove

and I just slow down to his pace and we read.

i samo sjednem i čitam njegovim tempom.

And because children have their own tempo and internal clock,

Budući da djeca imaju vlastiti tempo i unutarnji sat,

they don't do quality time,

nemaju određeno vrijeme

where you schedule 10 minutes for them to open up to you.

u kojem vam će se otvoriti na 10 minuta.

They need you to move at their rhythm.

Moraju se kretati vlastitim ritmom.

I find that 10 minutes into a story, you know,

Otkrio sam da mi nakon deset minuta priče

my son will suddenly say, "You know,

sin iznenada kaže:

something happened in the playground today that really bothered me."

"Danas se na igralištu dogodilo nešto što me baš zasmetalo."

And we'll go off and have a conversation on that.

I onda počnemo razgovarati o tome.

And I now find that bedtime stories

Shvatio sam da su priče za laku noć

used to be

nekoć bile nešto

a box on my to-do list, something that I dreaded,

s moje liste obveza, nešto što mi je bilo mučno raditi

because it was so slow and I had to get through it quickly.

jer je bilo užasno sporo i morao sam proletjeti kroz to.

It's become my reward at the end of the day,

Sad mi je to postala nagrada za kraj dana,

something I really cherish.

nešto što mi je srcu drago.

And I have a kind of Hollywood ending

Imam holivudski kraj

to my talk this afternoon,

mog govora ovog popodneva,

which goes a little bit like this:

a ide ovako.

a few months ago, I was getting ready to go on

Prije nekoliko mjeseci pripremao sam se

another book tour, and I had my bags packed.

za još jednu turneju knjige, spakirao kofere,

I was downstairs by the front door, and I was waiting for a taxi,

bio sam pred vratima i čekao taksi

and my son came down the stairs and

kad mi je sin sišao niz stepenice

he'd made a card for me. And he was carrying it.

s čestitkom koju mi je izradio.

He'd gone and stapled two cards, very like these, together,

Slijepio je dva komada kartona nalik ovima

and put a sticker of his favorite

i na naslovnicu stavio naljepnicu

character, Tintin, on the front.

Tintina, svog omiljenog lika.

And he said to me,

Rekao mi je,

or he handed this to me, and I read it,

odnosno dao mi ju je i ja sam je pročitao:

and it said, "To Daddy, love Benjamin."

"Za tatu. Voli te Benjamin."

And I thought, "Aw, that's really sweet.

Rekoh: "Kako slatko.

Is that a good luck on the book tour card?"

Je li to čestitka za uspješnu turneju knjige?"

And he said, "No, no, no, Daddy -- this is a card

Rekao je: "Ne, ne, tatice, to je čestitka

for being the best story reader in the world."

za najboljeg čitača priča na svijetu."

And I thought, "Yeah, you know, this slowing down thing really does work."

Pomislih: "Vidiš ti to, ovo usporavanje zaista djeluje."

Thank you very much.

Puno vam hvala.