Nilofer Merchant: Got a meeting? Take a walk

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast

Translator: Iris Xholi Reviewer: Helena Bedalli

What you're doing,

Ajo c'ka po beni,

right now, at this very moment,

pikerisht tani, ne kete moment,

is killing you.

është duke ju vrarë.

More than cars or the Internet

Me shumë se sa makinat ose interneti

or even that little mobile device we keep talking about,

ose ai aparat i vogel levizes per te cilin vec flasim,

the technology you're using the most almost every day

tekonologjia qe perdorim me shpesh cdo dite

is this, your tush.

eshte kjo, fundshpina juaj.

Nowadays people are sitting 9.3 hours a day,

Ne ditet e sotme, njerezit qendrojne te ulur 9.3 ore ne dite,

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

me teper nga sa fleme, qe eshte rreth 7.7 ore.

Sitting is so incredibly prevalent,

Te ulurit eshte kaq dominues,

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

sa qe ne as nuk e veme re se per sa kohe qendrojme ne kete pozicion,

and because everyone else is doing it,

dhe duke qene se gjithkush tjeter ben te njejten gje,

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

as qe na kalon neper mendje se mund te mos jete dicka e mire.

In that way, sitting has become

Thene ndryshe, te ulurit eshe kthyer ne

the smoking of our generation.

duhanpirjen e gjenerates tone.

Of course there's health consequences to this,

Kjo padyshueshmerisht shoqerohet me pasoja ne shendetin tone,

scary ones, besides the waist.

pasoja te frikshme, qe nuk ndalojne vec ne dhjamosjen e belit.

Things like breast cancer and colon cancer

Gjera te tipit, kancer i gjoksit dhe kolones

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

jane direkt te lidhura me mungesen e aktivitetit fizik,

Ten percent in fact, on both of those.

dhjete perqind per te dyja keto semundje.

Six percent for heart disease,

Gjashte perqind per semundje te zemres,

seven percent for type 2 diabetes,

shtate perqind per diabet, tipi 2,

which is what my father died of.

semundje qe i shkaktoi vdekjen babait tim.

Now, any of those stats should convince each of us

Tani, cdonjera prej ketyre statistikave duhet te na binde

to get off our duff more,

te cohemi nga karriket pak me shpesh,

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

por nese me ngjasoni sado pak, ju nuk do ta beni.

What did get me moving was a social interaction.

Ajo cka me beri qe te leviz ishte bashkeveprimi social.

Someone invited me to a meeting,

Dikush me ftoi ne nje takim,

but couldn't manage to fit me in

por nuk mundi te me fuste brenda

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

ne dhomen e nje konference, dhe me tha,

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

"Do ti bej nje shetitje qenit neser. A do vish neser?"

It seemed kind of odd to do,

Mu duk mjaft e cuditshme,

and actually, that first meeting, I remember thinking,

dhe faktikisht, gjate atij takimi te pare mendova,

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

"pyetjen e rradhes duhet ta bej une,"

because I knew I was going to huff and puff

sepse e kisha nje parandjenje qe do shfryja e do fryja

during this conversation.

pergjate te gjithe bisedes.

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

Megjithate, une e mora ate ide dhe e bera timen.

So instead of going to coffee meetings

Ne vend qe te shkoj neper kafene per takime

or fluorescent-lit conference room meetings,

ose ne salla konferencash me drite fluoreshente,

I ask people to go on a walking meeting,

i kerkoj njerezit qe te dalim ne "takime shetitese",

to the tune of 20 to 30 miles a week.

qe barazohen me 20 deri 30 minuta ecje.

It's changed my life.

Me ka ndryshuar jeten.

But before that, what actually happened was,

Por, perpara kesaj, ajo cka ndodhi realisht

I used to think about it as,

you could take care of your health,

ishte, se une fillova te mendoj qe egzistonin dy mundesi,

e para, mund te kujdesesh per shendetin,

or you could take care of obligations,

ose e dyta, te kujdeseshe per detyrimet,

and one always came at the cost of the other.

dhe njera gjithnje do vuante pasojat e tjetres.

So now, several hundred of these walking meetings later,

Tashme, pas disa qindra "takime shetitese",

I've learned a few things.

kam arritur te mesoj disa gjera.

First, there's this amazing thing

E para, ndodh dicka e mrekullueshme

about actually getting out of the box

kur cohesh dhe del jashte kutise (zyres)

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

qe te con drejt te menduarit jashte kutise.

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

Nuk e di me saktesi ne eshte afrimi me natyren a aktiviteti fizik faktore te ketij ndryshimi, por qe padyshueshmerisht funksionon.

And second, and probably the more reflective one,

Dhe e dyta, dhe ndoshta me reflektuesja,

is just about how much each of us

eshte se sa secili prej nesh

can hold problems in opposition

mund ti mbaje problemet ne opozite

when they're really not that way.

kur ato ne te vertete nuk jane ashtu.

And if we're going to solve problems

Dhe nese ne na kerkohet te zgjidhim probleme

and look at the world really differently,

dhe ta shohim boten ndryshe,

whether it's in governance or business

qofte kjo ne qeverisje a biznes,

or environmental issues, job creation,

probleme ambjentaliste a krijimin e vendeve te reja te punes,

maybe we can think about how to reframe those problems

ndoshta mund te mendojme se si ti rikornizojme keto probleme

as having both things be true.

duke i konsideruar te dyja mundesite si te mireqena.

Because it was when that happened

Sepse, eshte pikerisht kur ndodh dicka e tille

with this walk-and-talk idea

gjate atyre "takimeve shetitese"

that things became doable and sustainable and viable.

qe gjerat papritur kthehen ne te mundshme, te qendrueshme dhe te zonjat per te funksionuar me sukses.

So I started this talk talking about the tush,

E nisa kete fjale duke folur per fundshpinen,

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

dhe dua ta mbyll duke folur per me kryesoren,

walk and talk.

ec dhe bisedo.

Walk the talk.

Ece biseden.

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

Do te cuditeni se si ajri i paster frymezon mendim te paster,

and in the way that you do,

dhe ne kete menyre,

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

do te sillni ne jeten tuaj nje grup ideshe plotesisht te reja.

Thank you.

Faleminderit.

(Applause)

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