Nilofer Merchant: Got a meeting? Take a walk

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast

Translator: Ziva Vidic Licul Reviewer: Kaja Kren

What you're doing,

To, kar delate zdaj,

right now, at this very moment,

v prav tem trenutku

is killing you.

vas ubija.

More than cars or the Internet

Ubija vas bolj kot avtomobili ali internet,

or even that little mobile device we keep talking about,

bolj od mobilne napravice o kateri ves čas govorimo.

the technology you're using the most almost every day

Tehnologija, ki jo vsak dan največ uporabljate

is this, your tush.

je tole, vaša zadnjica.

Nowadays people are sitting 9.3 hours a day,

Danes ljudje sedijo kar 9,3 ure na dan,

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

kar je več časa, kot ga preživimo za spanje, pri 7,7 urah.

Sitting is so incredibly prevalent,

Sedenje je tako prevladujoče,

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

da se sploh ne zavedamo, koliko časa sedimo,

and because everyone else is doing it,

in ker to delajo vsi drugi,

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

nam niti ne pade na misel, da to ni dobro.

In that way, sitting has become

V tem smislu je sedenje postalo

the smoking of our generation.

kajenje naše generacije.

Of course there's health consequences to this,

Seveda temu sledijo posledice v našem zdravju,

scary ones, besides the waist.

poleg večjega obsega pasu, tudi bolj strašljive,

Things like breast cancer and colon cancer

kot so rak na dojki ali rak debelega črevesa,

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

ki sta močno povezana z našim pomanjkanjem fizične aktivnosti

Ten percent in fact, on both of those.

za kar deset odstotkov.

Six percent for heart disease,

Šest odstotkov za obolenja srca,

seven percent for type 2 diabetes,

sedem odstotkov za diabetes drugega tipa,

which is what my father died of.

za katerim je umrl moj oče.

Now, any of those stats should convince each of us

Ta statistika bi morala vsakega od nas prepričati,

to get off our duff more,

da dvignemo naše riti,

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

ampak če ste mi vsaj malo podobni, vas ne bo.

What did get me moving was a social interaction.

Kar me je prisililo h gibanju je druženje.

Someone invited me to a meeting,

Nekdo me je povabil na sestanek,

but couldn't manage to fit me in

vendar me ni mogel povabiti

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

na sestanek v sejni sobi in je rekel,

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

''Jutri moram sprehoditi pse. Bi lahko prišli takrat?''

It seemed kind of odd to do,

To dejanje se mi je zdelo malo čudno,

and actually, that first meeting, I remember thinking,

na prvem sestanku sem pomislila

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

''Jaz moram biti tista, ki postavi naslednje vprašanje,''

because I knew I was going to huff and puff

ker sem vedela, da bom sopihala

during this conversation.

med tem pogovorom.

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

Pa vendar sem to idejo posvojila in jo naredila za svojo.

So instead of going to coffee meetings

Namesto sestankov na kavi

or fluorescent-lit conference room meetings,

ali v fluorescentno osvetljeni konferenčni sobi,

I ask people to go on a walking meeting,

ljudi povabim na sestanke ob hoji,

to the tune of 20 to 30 miles a week.

kar znese od 30 do 50 km na teden.

It's changed my life.

To je spremenilo moje življenje.

But before that, what actually happened was,

Pred tem dogodkom

I used to think about it as,

you could take care of your health,

sem na to gledala kot na možnost da,

lahko skrbiš za svoje zdravje

or you could take care of obligations,

ali pa lahko skrbiš za svoje obveznosti.

and one always came at the cost of the other.

Zaradi tega, je eno vedno trpelo zaradi drugega.

So now, several hundred of these walking meetings later,

Zdaj, več kot sto sestankov-sprehodov pozneje,

I've learned a few things.

sem se naučila nekaj stvari.

First, there's this amazing thing

Prva je, da obstaja neverjetna stvar

about actually getting out of the box

pri tem, da se podamo onkraj navad in norm,

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

kar vodi do drugačnega razmišljanja - onkraj navad in norm.

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

Ali gre za naravo, ali telovadbo, zagotovo deluje.

And second, and probably the more reflective one,

Druga stvar, ki vodi v temeljitejši razmislek pa je,

is just about how much each of us

koliko vsak od nas

can hold problems in opposition

probleme vidi drugače

when they're really not that way.

kot v resnici so.

And if we're going to solve problems

In če se odločimo reševati probleme

and look at the world really differently,

in gledati na svet drugače,

whether it's in governance or business

naj bo to v vodstvenih položajih, v poslih,

or environmental issues, job creation,

v okoljskih problemih ali v ustvarjanju služb

maybe we can think about how to reframe those problems

lahko morda razmislimo tudi o tem, kako na te probleme pogledati drugače,

as having both things be true.

saj bi to uresničilo druge ideje.

Because it was when that happened

Saj so se ob tej

with this walk-and-talk idea

ideji o hoji in sestanku

that things became doable and sustainable and viable.

stvari razvile in postale izvedljive, obstojne in uspešne.

So I started this talk talking about the tush,

No, pogovor sem začela z zadnjico,

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

tako, da bom tudi končala z zadnjim bistvom, ki je:

walk and talk.

hoja in pogovor.

Walk the talk.

Vodi pogovor.

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

Presenečeni boste nad tem, kako svež zrak deluje na sveže razmišljanje,

and in the way that you do,

in ko boste to storili,

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

boste v življenje prinesli popolnoma nove ideje.

Thank you.

Hvala.

(Applause)

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