Give yourself permission to be creative | Ethan Hawke | TED

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I was hoping today to talk a little bit about creativity.

Nadao sam se da ću danas pričati o kreativnosti.

You know, a lot of people really struggle

Puno ljudi si ne mogu

to give themselves permission to be creative.

dozvoliti da budu kreativni.

And reasonably so.

S razlogom.

I mean, we're all a little suspect of our own talent.

Svi pomalo sumnjamo u svoj talent.

And I remember a story I came across in my early 20s

Sjećam se priče na koju sam naletio u ranim 20-im

that kind of meant a lot to me.

koja je dosta utjecala na mene.

I was really into Allen Ginsberg,

Zapalio sam se za Allena Ginsberga.

and I was reading his poetry,

Čitao sam njegovu poeziju,

čitao sam -- radio je dosta intervjua --

and I was reading -- he did a lot of interviews --

and one time, William F. Buckley had this television program

i William F. Buckley je radio TV program

called "Firing Line,"

koji se zvao "Firing Line",

and Ginsberg went on there and sang a Hare Krishna song

i Ginsberg je gostovao i pjevao Hare Krišna pjesme

while playing the harmonium.

i svirao harmonij.

And he got back to New York to all his intelligentsia friends,

Kada se vratio u New York i sreo prijatelje intelektualce,

and they all told him,

rekli su mu,

"Zar ne znaš da svi misle da si idiot

"Don't you know that everybody thinks you're an idiot,

i da se cijela država sprda na tvoj račun?"

and the whole country's making fun of you?"

And he said, "That's my job.

Odgovorio im je, "To mi je posao.

I'm a poet, and I'm going to play the fool.

Ja sam pjesnik i igrat ću budalu.

Most people have to go to work all day long,

Većina mora raditi po cijeli dan

and they come home and they fight with their spouse,

i kada se vrate kući svađaju se s partnerom,

nešto pojedu i upale TV,

and they eat, and they turn on the old boob tube,

and somebody tries to sell them something,

gdje im netko nešto pokušava prodati,

and I just screwed all that up.

i ja sam sve to zeznuo.

I went on and I sang about Krishna,

Išao sam i pjevao o Krišni,

and now they're sitting in bed and going, 'Who is this stupid poet?'

i sada sjede u krevetu i misle si, 'Tko je ovaj glupi pjesnik?'

And they can't fall asleep, right?"

I ne mogu zaspati."

And that's his job as a poet.

To je posao njega kao pjesnika.

And so, I find that very liberating,

Tako da mi je to jako oslobađajuće,

because I think that most of us really want to offer the world

jer svi mi želimo ponuditi svijetu

something of quality,

nešto kvalitetno,

something that the world will consider good or important.

nešto što će svijet smatrati dobrim ili važnim.

And that's really the enemy,

A to je stvarni problem,

because it's not up to us whether what we do is any good,

jer nije na nama da odlučimo je li to što radimo dobro,

and if history has taught us anything,

i ako smo išta naučili iz povijesti,

the world is an extremely unreliable critic.

to je da su ljudi jako nepouzdani kritičari.

Right?

Jesam li upravu?

So you have to ask yourself:

Tako da se morate zapitati:

Do you think human creativity matters?

Je li ljudska kreativnost važna?

Well, hmm.

Pa, hmm.

Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry. Right?

Većina ljudi ne razmišlja puno o poeziji.

They have a life to live,

Moraju živjeti i raditi

and they're not really that concerned with Allen Ginsberg's poems

i ne zanimaju ih pjesme Allena Ginsberga

or anybody's poems,

ili bilo koga drugog,

until their father dies,

dok im ne umre otac

they go to a funeral,

i odu na sprovod,

you lose a child,

ili izgube dijete,

somebody breaks your heart, they don't love you anymore,

netko vam slomi srce, ne vole vas više,

and all of a sudden,

i odjednom

you're desperate for making sense out of this life,

očajno pokušavate dati smisao životu

and, "Has anybody ever felt this bad before?

i upitate se "Je li se itko ovako loše osjećao?

How did they come out of this cloud?"

Kako su se izvukli?"

Or the inverse -- something great.

Ili suprotno -- nešto sjajno.

You meet somebody and your heart explodes.

Sretnete nekog i srce vam eksplodira.

You love them so much, you can't even see straight.

Tako ih volite da ne vidite ništa.

You know, you're dizzy.

Opčinjeni ste.

"Did anybody feel like this before? What is happening to me?"

"Je li se još netko ovako osjećao? Što mi se događa?"

And that's when art's not a luxury, it's actually sustenance.

Tada umjetnost prestaje biti luksuz i postaje hrana.

We need it.

Trebamo je.

OK. Well, what is it?

U redu. Što je to?

Human creativity is nature manifest in us.

U ljudima priroda se pokazuje kroz kreativnost.

We look at the, oh ...

Pogledamo, oh...

the aurora borealis. Right?

auroru borealis.

I did this movie called "White Fang" when I was a kid,

Glumio sam u filmu "Bijeli očnjak" kao dijete,

and we shot up in Alaska,

snimali smo na Aljasci,

and you go out at night

i po noći bih izašao van

a nebo se mreškalo u ljubičastom, ružičastom i bijelom,

and the sky was like rippling with purple and pink and white,

and it's the most beautiful thing I ever saw.

nešto najljepše što sam vidio.

It really looked like the sky was playing.

Izgledalo je kao da se nebo igra.

Beautiful.

Prelijepo.

Odete u Grand Canyon u sumrak.

You go to Grand Canyon at sundown.

It's beautiful.

Prelijepo je.

We know that's beautiful.

Znamo da je lijepo.

Ali zaljubiti se?

But fall in love?

Your lover's pretty beautiful.

Vaša djevojka/dečko su lijepi.

I have four kids.

Imam četvero djece.

Watching them play?

Gledati ih kako se igraju?

Watching them pretend to be a butterfly

Gledati ih kako se prave da su leptiri

or run around the house and doing anything,

ili kada trče po kući i svašta izvode,

it's so beautiful.

to je tako lijepo.

And I believe that we are here on this star in space

Vjerujem da smo ovdje na ovom planetu

to try to help one another. Right?

kako bismo pomogli jedni drugima.

And first we have to survive,

Prvo moramo preživjeti,

and then we have to thrive.

onda se moramo razvijati.

And to thrive, to express ourselves,

Da bismo se razvijali, da bismo se izrazili,

alright, well, here's the rub: we have to know ourselves.

moramo poznavati sami sebe.

What do you love?

Što volite?

And if you get close to what you love,

Ukoliko se približite tome,

who you are is revealed to you,

otkriti će vam se što ste,

and it expands.

i onda se širi.

For me, it was really easy.

Meni je bilo lako.

I did my first professional play. I was 12 years old.

Sa 12 godina sam debitirao

I was in a play called "Saint Joan" by George Bernard Shaw

u predstavi "Saint Joan" od Georgea Bernarda Shawa

at the McCarter Theatre,

u kazalištu McCarter,

and -- boom! -- I was in love.

i -- boom -- zaljubio sam se.

My world just expanded.

Svijet mi se proširio.

And that profession -- I'm almost 50 now --

Ta profesija -- sada mi je skoro 50 godina --

that profession has never stopped giving back to me,

ta profesija mi je stalno davala

and it gives back more and more,

i daje sve više,

mostly, strangely,

uglavnom

through the characters that I've played.

kroz likove koje glumim.

I've played cops, I've played criminals,

Igrao sam policajce, kriminalce,

I've played priests, I've played sinners,

svećenike, grešnike,

and the magic of this over a lifetime, over 30 years of doing this,

i čudo u svemu tome nakon 30 godina rada

is that you start to see that my experiences,

je da shvatite da moja iskustva,

me, Ethan, is not nearly as unique

ja, kao Ethan, uopće nisu jedinstvena

as I thought.

kao što sam mislio.

I have so much in common with all these people.

Imam toliko zajedničkog sa svim tim ljudima,

And so they have something in common with me.

kao i oni sa mnom,

You start to see how connected we all are.

i onda počnete uviđati kako smo svi povezani.

My great-grandmother, Della Hall Walker Green,

Moja prabaka, Della Hall Walker Green,

on her deathbed,

na samrtnoj postelji u bolnici,

she wrote this little biography in the hospital,

napisala je kratku biografiju,

and it was only about 36 pages long,

imala je samo 36 stranica,

and she spent about five pages

a pet stranica je pisala

on the one time she did costumes for a play.

kako je šivala kostime za predstavu.

Her first husband got, like, a paragraph.

Prvi muž je dobio jedan odlomak.

Cotton farming, of which she did for 50 years, gets a mention.

Uzgoj pamuka, kojim se bavila 50 godina, samo je spomenut.

Five pages on doing these costumes.

Pet stranica o tim kostimima.

And I look -- my mom gave me one of her quilts that she made,

Mama mi je dala jedan prekrivač koji je prabaka napravila,

and you can feel it.

mogli ste osjetiti

She was expressing herself,

da se izražavala

and it has a power that's real.

i da ima stvarnu snagu.

I remember my stepbrother and I went to go see "Top Gun,"

S polubratom sam išao gledati "Top Gun",

whatever year that came out.

koje je godine već izašao,

And I remember we walked out of the mall, it was, like, blazing hot,

i sjećam se da smo izašli iz centra, bilo je pakleno vruće.

I just looked at him,

Pogledao sam ga,

and we both felt that movie just like a calling from God.

obojica smo osjetili film kao znak od Boga.

You know? Just ...

Samo...

But completely differently.

Skroz drukčije.

Like, I wanted to be an actor.

Ja sam htio biti glumac.

I was like, I've got to make something that makes people feel.

Mislio sam da moram ljudima pružiti osjećaje.

Htio sam biti dijelom toga.

I just want to be a part of that.

On je želio ići u vojsku.

And he wanted to be in the military.

Kada bismo se igrali, FBI-a ili vojnika,

That's all we ever did was play FBI, play army man,

ili vitezova, ja bih pozirao s mačem,

play knights, you know, and I'd like, pose with my sword,

and he would build a working crossbow

a on bi napravio samostrel

that you could shoot an arrow into a tree.

koji je funkcionirao.

So he joins the army.

I on je otišao u vojsku.

Well, he just retired a colonel in the Green Berets.

Upravo se umirovio kao pukovnik Zelenih beretki.

He's a multidecorated combat veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Više puta odlikovani veteran ratova u Afganistanu i Iraku.

He now teaches a sail camp for children of fallen soldiers.

Sada uči jedrenju djecu poginulih vojnika.

He gave his life to his passion.

Sve je dao svojoj strasti.

His creativity was leadership,

Njegova kreativnost je bila vodstvo,

leading others,

vođenje ljudi,

his bravery, to help others.

njegova hrabrost da pomaže.

That was something he felt called to do,

To je bio njegov poziv

and it gave back to him.

i vratilo mu se.

We know this -- the time of our life is so short,

Život je kratak,

and how we spend it --

i kako ga provodimo,

are we spending it doing what's important to us?

radimo li nešto što nam je važno?

Most of us not.

Većina ne.

I mean, it's hard.

Teško je.

The pull of habit is so huge,

Moć navike je ogromna,

and that's what makes kids so beautifully creative,

zato su djeca tako izvrsno kreativna,

is that they don't have any habits,

jer nemaju navika,

and they don't care if they're any good or not, right?

i baš ih briga jesu li dobri u nečemu.

They're not building a sandcastle going,

Ne grade kulu u pijesku razmišljajući,

"I think I'm going to be a really good sandcastle builder."

"Mislim da ću biti dobar u ovome".

They just throw themselves at whatever project you put in front of them --

Samo se bace na svaki projekt koji im date --

dancing, doing a painting,

ples, slikanje,

building something:

konstruiranje:

any opportunity they have,

svaku priliku koju dobiju

they try to use it to impress upon you their individuality.

iskoriste da vam pokažu svoju individualnost.

It's so beautiful.

To je predivno.

It's a thing that worries me sometimes whenever you talk about creativity,

Kada se priča o kreativnosti, ponekad me zabrinjava

because it can have this kind of feel that it's just nice,

što se dobije osjećaj da je to nešto fino,

you know, or it's warm or it's something pleasant.

ili toplo i ugodno,

It's not.

a nije.

It's vital.

Vitalno je.

It's the way we heal each other.

To je način kako liječimo jedni druge.

In singing our song,

Pjevajući pjesme,

in telling our story,

pričajući priče,

in inviting you to say,

pozivajući,

"Hey, listen to me, and I'll listen to you,"

"Hej, slušaj me, i ja ću slušati tebe",

we're starting a dialogue.

započinjemo dijalog.

And when you do that, this healing happens,

Kada to učinite, događa se iscjeljenje,

and we come out of our corners,

i izađemo iz svojih kuteva,

and we start to witness each other's common humanity.

i počinjemo uviđati ljudskost u drugima,

We start to assert it.

počinjemo je isticati,

And when we do that, really good things happen.

a kada to radimo, dešavaju se dobre stvari.

So, if you want to help your community, if you want to help your family,

Ukoliko želite pomoći svom društvu, svojoj obitelji,

if you want to help your friends,

pomoći svojim prijateljima,

you have to express yourself.

morate se izraziti.

And to express yourself, you have to know yourself.

Da biste se izrazili, morate se poznavati.

It's actually super easy.

U biti je jako lako.

You just have to follow your love.

Samo trebate pratiti svoju ljubav.

There is no path.

Staza ne postoji,

There's no path till you walk it,

sve dok je ne napravite

and you have to be willing to play the fool.

i morate biti spremni izigravati budalu.

So don't read the book that you should read,

Zato nemojte čitati knjigu koju biste trebali čitati,

read the book you want to read.

nego onu koju želite čitati.

Don't listen to the music that you used to like.

Ne slušajte glazbu koja vam se nekada sviđala.

Take some time to listen to some new music.

Poslušajte novu glazbu.

Take some time to talk to somebody that you don't normally talk to.

Popričajte s osobom s kojom normalno ne biste pričali.

I guarantee, if you do that,

Ukoliko to učinite, garantiram

you will feel foolish.

da ćete se osjećati blesavo.

That's the point.

U tome je bit.

Play the fool.

Glumite budalu.

(Plays guitar)

(Svira gitaru)

(Sings) Well, I want to go Austin, and I wanna stay home.

(Pjeva) Želim ići u Austin i ostati doma.

Invite our friends over but still be alone.

Pozvati prijatelje, a opet biti sam.

Live for danger.

Živim za opasnost.

Play it cool.

Pravim se da mi je svejedno.

Have everyone respect me for being a fool.

Da uvjerim sve da me poštuju kao budalu.