Carl Honore: In praise of slowness

Prevodilac: Sonja Rajkovic Lektor: Ivana Krivokuća

Hteo bih da krenem od zapažanja da,

ako sam nešto naučio u prošloj godini,

to je da je najveća ironija

izdavanja knjige o usporavanju

to da moraš da je promovišeš veoma brzo.

Dobar deo vremena ovih dana provodim

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

jureći od grada do grada, od studija do studija,

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

sa intervjua na intervju,

it's that the supreme irony

predstavljajući knjigu u delovima.

of publishing a book about slowness

Zato što ovih dana svi žele da znaju kako da uspore,

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

ali žele da saznaju kako da uspore veoma brzo. Tako da...

I seem to spend most of my time these days

zipping from city to city, studio to studio,

Radio sam skoro reklamu na Si-En-Enu

interview to interview,

gde sam u stvari proveo više vremena u šminkernici nego u etru.

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

Mislim da to ne iznenađuje, zar ne?

Because everyone these days

wants to know how to slow down,

Zato što je to svet u kome živimo danas,

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

svet u ubrzanju.

Svet opsednut brzinom,

so I did a spot on CNN the other day

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

time da se sve uradi brže,

da se natrpa sve više u sve manje vremena.

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

Svaki trenutak dana izgleda kao trka sa vremenom.

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

a world stuck in fast-forward.

Da pozajmim rečenicu Keri Fišer,

koja je i u mojoj biografiji; spomenuću je opet -

A world obsessed with speed,

„Ovih dana i trenutno zadovoljstvo traje predugo.“ (Smeh)

with doing everything faster, with cramming more and more

into less and less time.

Ako razmislite o tome kako pokušavamo da poboljšamo stvari, šta uradimo?

Every moment of the day feels like

a race against the clock.

Ubrzamo ih, je l'? Nekada smo zvali, sada je tu brzo pozivanje.

To borrow a phrase from Carrie Fisher, which is

Čitali smo; sada brzo čitamo. Šetali smo; sada brzo šetamo.

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

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

Naravno, nekada smo išli na sastanke, sada su tu brzi sastanci.

And

Čak i one stvari koje su po svojoj prirodi spore -

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

mi pokušavamo i njih da ubrzamo.

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

Skoro sam bio u Njujorku i prolazio sam pored teretane

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

u čijem izlogu je bio oglas za novi večernji kurs.

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

A bio je za, pogađate, brzu jogu.

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

Idealno rešenje za profesionalce sa manjkom vremena

we try and speed them up too.

koji žele da urade pozdrav suncu,

ali žele da odvoje samo 20 minuta za to.

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

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

Hoću da kažem, ovo su ekstremni primeri,

zabavni su i dobro je nasmejati im se.

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

Ali postoji veoma ozbiljan problem,

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

i mislim da u svakodnevnoj žurbi,

who want to, you know, salute the sun,

često gubimo iz vida štetu

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

koju nam ovaj život u jurnjavi čini.

I mean, these are sort of the extreme examples,

and they're amusing and good to laugh at.

Toliko smo uronjeni u ovu kulturu ubrzanja

But there's a very serious point,

da skoro i ne primetimo koliko uzima maha

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

u svakom aspektu naših života -

našem zdravlju, ishrani, poslu,

we often lose sight of the damage

odnosima, okolini i našoj zajednici.

that this roadrunner form of living does to us.

Ponekad je potreban neki znak, zar ne,

We're so marinated in the culture of speed

da nas upozori na činjenicu da žurimo kroz život, umesto da ga živimo;

that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes

on every aspect of our lives --

da živimo brz život, umesto dobrog života.

on our health, our diet, our work,

our relationships, the environment and our community.

Mislim da se kod mnogih ljudi taj znak javi u vidu bolesti.

And sometimes it takes

Znate, iscrpljenje, ili telo najzad kaže:

a wake-up call, doesn't it,

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

„Ne mogu više da podnesem“, i preda se.

instead of actually living them; that we're

Ili možda veza propadne

living the fast life, instead of the good life.

zato što nismo imali vremena, strpljenja ili smirenosti

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

da budemo sa drugom osobom, da je saslušamo.

takes the form of an illness.

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

Moj znak se pojavio kada sam počeo

da čitam sinu priče za laku noć,

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

i video sam da bih na kraju dana

Or maybe a relationship goes up in smoke

otišao u njegovu sobu i jednostavno nisam mogao da usporim -

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

or the tranquility,

čitao bih „Mačku u šeširu“ brzo.

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

Preskakao bih red ovde,

And my wake-up call came when I started

paragraf ovde, ponekad celu stranu,

reading bedtime stories to my son,

a naravno, moj dečak je znao celu knjigu, i svađali bismo se.

and I found that at the end of day,

I ono što je trebalo da bude najopušteniji, najprisniji,

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

najnežniji trenutak dana,

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

kada otac sedne da čita sinu,

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

je umesto toga postao ljuta bitka volja,

paragraphs there, sometimes a whole page,

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

sukob moje brzine

i njegove sporosti.

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

I ovo je trajalo neko vreme,

the most tender moment of the day,

dok nisam naišao na članak u novinama

when a dad sits down to read to his son,

sa savetima za brze ljude o tome kako uštedeti vreme.

became instead this kind of gladiatorial battle of wills,

Jedan od njih je upućivao na knjige koje se zovu

a clash between my speed

„Jednominutne priče za laku noć“.

and his slowness.

Sada uzmičem izgovarajući te reči,

ali moja reakcija tada je bila drugačija.

And this went on for some time,

until I caught myself scanning a newspaper article

Moj prvi instinkt je bio da kažem:

„Aleluja - kakva dobra ideja!

with timesaving tips for fast people.

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

Ovako nešto sam tražio da ubrzam vreme za spavanje još više.“

"The One-Minute Bedtime Story."

Ali srećom, kliknulo mi je u glavi i moja sledeća reakcija je bila drugačija.

And I wince saying those words now,

but my first reaction at the time was very different.

Zastao sam i zamislio se:

My first reflex was to say,

„Vau - da li je stvarno došlo do ovoga?

"Hallelujah -- what a great idea!

Da li sam toliko u žurbi da sam spreman

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

da uvalim svom sinu ubrzanu verziju na kraju dana?“

But thankfully,

Sklonio sam novine -

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

ukrcavao sam se na avion -

and I took a step back, and I thought,

seo sam i uradio nešto što nisam odavno - a to je ništa.

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

Samo sam razmišljao, razmišljao dugo i naporno.

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

Do izlaska iz aviona, poželeo sam da da uradim nešto u vezi sa tim.

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

Želeo sam da istražim celu ovu ubrzanu kulturu

And I put away the newspaper --

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

i šta ona to radi meni i svima ostalima.

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

Imao sam dva pitanja u glavi.

I just thought, and I thought long and hard.

Prvo je bilo: kako smo postali tako ubrzani?

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

A drugo je: da li moguće,

I wanted to investigate this whole roadrunner culture,

ili čak poželjno, da usporimo?

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

Ako razmislite o tome kako je svet postao brz,

And I had two questions in my head.

uobičajeni osumnjičeni se javljaju.

Pomislite, znate, na urbanizaciju,

The first was, how did we get so fast?

materijalizam, radno mesto, tehnologiju.

And the second is, is it possible,

Ali mislim da, ako razložite te sile,

or even desirable, to slow down?

dođete do onoga što bi mogao biti jači pokretač, suština pitanja,

Now, if you think about

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

a to je kako razmišljamo o samom vremenu.

You think of, you know, urbanization,

consumerism, the workplace, technology.

U drugim kulturama, vreme je ciklično.

Sagledavaju ga kao da se kreće u velikim,

But I think if you cut through

those forces, you get to what might be the deeper

laganim krugovima.

driver, the nub of the question,

Uvek se obnavlja i regeneriše.

Dok je na zapadu vreme linearno.

which is how we think about time itself.

To je konačan izvor;

In other cultures, time is cyclical.

stalno presušuje.

Ili ga iskoristiš, ili ga izgubiš.

It's seen as moving in great,

„Vreme je novac“, kao što je rekao Bendžamin Frenklin.

unhurried circles.

Ono što nam to radi na psihološkom nivou je da stvara jednačinu.

It's always renewing and refreshing itself.

Whereas in the West, time is linear.

It's a finite resource;

Vremena ima malo, i šta mi radimo?

Pa, ubrzamo se, zar ne?

it's always draining away.

Pokušamo da radimo što više za manje vremena.

You either use it, or lose it.

"Time is money," as Benjamin Franklin said.

Pretvaramo svaki trenutak dana

u trku do linije cilja -

And I think what that does to us psychologically

do linije cilja do koje, uzgred, nikad ne dođemo,

is it creates an equation.

ali koja je, ipak, linija cilja.

Time is scarce, so what do we do?

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

Pretpostavljam da je pitanje

da li se možemo osloboditi takvog načina razmišljanja?

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

We turn every moment of every day

Srećom, odgovor je da, jer otkrio sam, promatrajući oko sebe,

into a race to the finish line --

da postoji globalni otpor prema ovoj kulturi

a finish line, incidentally, that we never reach,

koja nam kaže da je brže uvek bolje i da je zauzeto najbolje.

but a finish line nonetheless.

And I guess that the question is,

Širom sveta ljudi čine nezamislivo:

is it possible to break free from that mindset?

usporavaju i otkrivaju da,

And thankfully, the answer is yes, because

iako je uobičajeno mišljenje da ako usporiš, postaješ beskoristan,

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

a global backlash against this culture that

ispostavlja se da je suprotno tačno:

da usporavanjem u pravim trenutcima

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

ljudi shvataju da sve rade bolje.

Right across the world, people are doing the unthinkable:

Bolje se hrane, bolje vode ljubav, bolje vežbaju, bolje rade, bolje žive.

they're slowing down, and finding that,

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

I u takvom metežu

the opposite turns out to be true:

trenutaka, mesta i dela ubrzanja,

that by slowing down at the right moments,

people find that they do everything better.

leži ono što mnogi ljudi danas nazivaju

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

„internacionalni pokret usporavanja“.

they work better; they live better.

A sada, ako mi dozvolite jedan mali licemerni čin,

And, in this kind of cauldron

daću vam veoma brz pregled šta se dešava u pokretu usporavanja.

of moments and places and acts of deceleration,

lie what a lot of people now refer to as

Kada pomislite na hranu,

mnogi od vas su čuli za pokret spore hrane.

the "International Slow Movement."

Pokrenut je u Italiji, ali se proširio svuda,

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

i sada broji 100 000 članova u 50 zemalja.

I'll just give you a very quick overview of

Vodi se veoma jednostavnom i razumnom porukom,

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

a to je da imamo više zadovoljstva i bolje zdravlje od hrane

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

Started in Italy, but has spread across the world,

kada je uzgajamo, kuvamo i konzumiramo umerenim tempom.

and now has 100,000 members

in 50 countries.

Takođe mislim da ekspanzija pokreta organskog uzgoja

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

i preporod pijaca predstavljaju dodatne ilustracije

which is that we get more pleasure and more health

from our food when we

činjenice da su ljudi očajni da pobegnu

cultivate, cook and consume it at a reasonable pace.

od jedenja, kuvanja i negovanja hrane

I think also the explosion of

po industrijskim merilima.

Žele da se vrate na sporiji ritam.

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

Iz pokreta spore hrane je proizašlo nešto što se zove pokret sporih gradova,

are other illustrations

of the fact that people are desperate to get away from

koji je počeo u Italiji, ali se proširio širom Evrope i dalje.

eating and cooking and cultivating their food

on an industrial timetable.

U ovim gradovima

They want to get back to slower rhythms.

dolaze do novih rešenja za organizaciju urbanih krajeva,

tako da su ljudi ohrabreni da uspore,

And out of the Slow Food movement has grown something

uživaju u okolini i povežu se sa drugima.

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

Tako da možda ograniče saobraćaj,

but has spread right across Europe and beyond.

postave neku klupu u parku ili neku zelenu površinu.

And in this, towns

Na neki način, ove promene doprinose više nego zbir njihovih delova,

begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape,

zato što kada spori grad zvanično postane spori grad,

so that people are encouraged to slow down

to je nešto kao filozofska objava.

and smell the roses and connect with one another.

Ona ostatku sveta i ljudima u tom gradu kaže

So they might curb traffic,

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

da verujemo da u 21. veku

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

usporenost ima svoju ulogu.

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

U medicini,

mislim da su mnogi ljudi razočarani mišljenjem o brzoj popravci

it's kind of like a philosophical declaration.

koji se može naći u tradicionalnoj medicini.

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

Milioni njih širom sveta se okreću

that we believe that in the 21st century,

dodatnim i alternativnim oblicima lečenja,

koji prodiru u neki sporiji, nežniji, celovitiji oblik lečenja.

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

with the kind of quick-fix mentality

Očigledno je da ima protivnika ovih dopunskih terapija,

you find in conventional medicine.

And millions of them around the world are turning

i ja lično ne verujem da će kafeni klistir

to complementary and alternative forms of medicine,

ikada, znate, dobiti opšte odobravanje.

which tend to tap into sort of

Ali neki drugi tretmani

slower, gentler, more holistic forms of healing.

kao što je akupunktura i masaža, pa čak i samo opuštanje,

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

očigledno imaju neku vrstu koristi.

Najprestižniji medicinski fakulteti svuda

and I personally doubt that the coffee enema

počinju da proučavaju sve ovo da bi otkrili kako funkcioniše

will ever, you know, gain mainstream approval.

i šta možemo naučiti iz toga.

But other treatments

Seks. Ima toliko puno brzog seksa svuda, zar ne?

such as acupuncture and massage, and even just relaxation,

Dolazio sam -

clearly have some kind of benefit.

pa - šala nije namerna.

And blue-chip medical colleges everywhere

Išao sam, recimo, sporo ka Oksfordu,

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

pogledao sam ka kiosku i video časopis,

and what we might learn from them.

muški časopis, a naslov je bio:

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

I was coming to --

„Kako da dovedete svoju partnerku do orgazma za 30 sekundi“.

well -- no pun intended there.

Tako da, znate, čak i seks je pod štopericom ovih dana.

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

I, znate,

i ja volim na brzinu kao i svako drugi,

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

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

ali mislim da mnogo toga može da se dobije

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

od sporog seksa - od usporavanja u spavaćoj sobi.

So, you know, even sex

Znate, udubite se u to -

is on a stopwatch these days.

te duboke, psihološke, emotivne, duhovne struje,

Now, you know,

I like a quickie as much as the next person,

i dobijete bolji orgazam sa dodatkom.

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

Možete da dobijete više muzike za manje para, da tako kažemo.

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

Mislim, Pointer Sisters su najbolje to rekle, zar ne,

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

kada su pevale pohvale „ljubavniku sa sporom rukom“.

sort of, psychological, emotional, spiritual currents,

Svi smo se smejali Stingu pre nekoliko godina

and you get a better orgasm with the buildup.

kada je počeo sa tantričkim seksom,

ali nekoliko godina kasnije i sada možete naći parove svih doba

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

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

kako jure na radionice,

ili možda sami u svojim spavaćim sobama,

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

pronalaze načine da zakoče i upražnjavaju bolji seks.

Now, we all laughed at Sting

I naravno, u Italiji gde -

a few years ago when he went Tantric,

mislim, Italijani izgleda da uvek znaju gde da nađu zadovoljstvo -

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

pokrenuli su zvanični pokret sporog seksa.

flocking to workshops, or maybe just

on their own in their own bedrooms, finding ways

Radno mesto.

to put on the brakes and have better sex.

Širom većine sveta -

sa izuzetkom Severne Amerike -

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

radno vreme se smanjuje.

where to find their pleasure --

Evropa je primer toga,

they've launched an official Slow Sex movement.

i ljudi pronalaze da se kvalitet njihovog života poboljša kada rade manje,

The workplace.

a takođe im i produktivnost po satu bude bolja.

Right across much of the world --

North America being a notable exception --

Očigledno je da ima problema

sa radnom nedeljom od 35 sati u Francuskoj -

working hours have been coming down.

previše, prerano, previše strogo.

And Europe is an example of that,

Ali ostale zemlje u Evropi, posebno nordijske zemlje,

and people finding that their quality of life improves

as they're working less, and also

pokazuju da je moguće

that their hourly productivity goes up.

imati neverovatno dobru ekonomiju

Now, clearly there are problems with

a da se čovek ne ubija od posla.

the 35-hour workweek in France --

Norveška, Švedska, Danska i Finska se sada svrstavaju

too much, too soon, too rigid.

među šest najkonkurentnih nacija na planeti,

But other countries in Europe, notably the Nordic countries,

a oni rade toliko sati

are showing that it's possible

da bi prosečan Amerikanac plakao od zavisti.

to have a kick-ass economy

without being a workaholic.

Ako idete iznad nivoa zemalja,

And Norway, Sweden,

na mikro nivou kompanija,

Denmark and Finland now rank

sve više njih shvata da moraju da dozvole osoblju

among the top six most competitive nations on Earth,

da rade manje sati ili da se samo isključe -

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

da odu na pauzu za ručak ili da sednu u tihoj prostoriji,

weep with envy.

And if you go beyond sort of the country level,

da isključe telefone i laptopove - vi pozadi -

down at the micro-company level,

more and more companies now are realizing

mobilne telefone,

that they need to allow their staff

tokom radnog dana ili vikendom, da bi imali vremena da napune baterije

either to work fewer hours or just to unplug --

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

i da bi mozak mogao da uroni u taj neki kreativni način razmišljanja.

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

Ipak, ovih dana nisu samo odrasli ti koji previše rade, zar ne?

mobile phones,

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

Tu su i deca, takođe.

Ja imam 37 godina i moje detinjstvo je bilo do sredine '80-ih.

and for the brain to slide into that

Posmatram decu danas i oduševljen sam kako oni

kind of creative mode of thought.

trče unaokolo sa više domaćih zadataka,

It's not just, though, these days,

više privatnih časova i dodatnih aktivnosti

nego što smo mogli da zamislimo u generaciji pre toga.

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

Neki od srceparajućih imejlova

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

koje dobijam na svom sajtu

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

su u stvari od adolescenata

race around with more homework,

koji lebde na ivici iznemoglosti,

more tutoring, more extracurriculars

moleći me da pišem njihovim roditeljima,

than we would ever have conceived of a generation ago.

da im pomognem da uspore,

da im pomognem da siđu sa te pokretne trake u punom gasu.

And some of the most heartrending emails

that I get on my website

Ali srećom, postoji otpor i kod roditelja, pa možete naći, znate,

are actually from adolescents

da se gradovi u Americi sada okupljaju i zabranjuju dodatne aktivnosti

hovering on the edge of burnout, pleading with me

to write to their parents,

na određeni dan u mesecu,

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

tako da bi ljudi mogli da se opuste, uživaju sa svojim porodicama i uspore.

full-throttle treadmill.

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

Domaći zadaci su druga stvar.

Postoje zabrane domaćih zadataka

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

koje se pojavljuju širom razvijenog sveta

are now banding together and banning extracurriculars

u školama koje su gomilale domaće zadatke godinama,

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

a sada otkrivaju da manje može da bude više.

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

Tako je postojao slučaj u Škotskoj skoro

Homework is another thing. There are homework bans

gde je uspešna privatna škola

zabranila domaće zadatke

za sve ispod 13 godina,

springing up all over the developed world

a uspešni roditelji su poludeli i rekli:

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

„Kako to - naša deca će pasti“ - direktor je rekao:

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

„Ne, ne, vaša deca treba da uspore na kraju dana.“

So there was a case up in Scotland recently

Baš prethodnog meseca, rezultati ispita su stigli,

where a fee-paying, high-achieving private school

banned homework

i u matematici i nauci, ocene su porasle za 20 procenata

for everyone under the age of 13,

and the high-achieving parents freaked out and said,

u proseku prošle godine.

Mislim da je značajno da elitni univerziteti,

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

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

koji se često navode kao razlog

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

zašto ljudi toliko guraju i forsiraju svoju decu,

počinju da uviđaju da kalibar studenata koji im dolaze opada.

and in math, science, marks went up 20 percent

Ova deca imaju odlične ocene;

on average last year.

And I think what's very revealing is that

imaju CV-e pretrpane dodatnim aktivnostima,

the elite universities, who are often cited as the reason

toliko da vam oči zasuze.

that people drive their kids and hothouse them so much,

Ali im fali iskre; fali im sposobnost da misle kreativno i drugačije -

are starting to notice the caliber of students

ne znaju kako da sanjaju.

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

Tako da ove prestižne škole, Oksford i Kembridž i ostali,

they have CVs jammed with extracurriculars,

šalju poruke roditeljima i studentima da moraju da malo nagaze kočnicu.

to the point that would make your eyes water.

A na Harvardu, na primer,

But they lack spark; they lack

šalju pismo studentima - brucošima -

the ability to think creatively and think outside --

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

u kom navode da će oni dobiti mnogo više od života i od Harvarda,

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

ako nagaze kočnice, ako rade manje,

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

ali daju vreme stvarima, vreme koje je potrebno za to,

And in Harvard, for instance, they send out

da bi uživali u njima i radovali im se.

a letter to undergraduates -- freshmen --

Čak i ako nekad ne rade baš ništa.

A to pismo se zove - što je veoma važno -

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

„Uspori!“ - sa znakom uzvika na kraju.

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

Dakle, gde god pogledate, poruka je, čini mi se, ista:

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

da je manje često više,

to enjoy them, to savor them.

da je sporije veoma često bolje.

And even if they sometimes do nothing at all.

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

Ali ipak, naravno, nije tako lako usporiti, zar ne?

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

Mislim, čuli ste da sam dobio kaznu za brzu vožnju

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

dok sam istraživao za knjigu o koristima usporavanja,

that less is very often more,

i to je tačno, ali to nije sve.

Bio sam na putu na večeru

that slower is very often

koju je u to vreme održavao pokret spore hrane.

better. But that said, of course,

Da nesreća bude veća, dobio sam kaznu u Italiji.

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

I mean, you heard that I got a speeding ticket

A ako se iko od vas nekad vozio italijanskim auto-putem,

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

imate prilično dobru sliku koliko sam brzo išao.

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

(Smeh)

I was actually en route to a dinner

held by Slow Food at the time.

Ali zašto je toliko teško usporiti?

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

Mislim da postoje različiti razlozi.

Jedan je da je brzina zabavna, znate, brzina je seksi.

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

To je taj nalet adrenalina. Teško je odreći ga se.

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

Mislim da postoji neka metafizička dimenzija -

(Laughter)

da brzina postaje način da se odbranimo od većih, dubljih pitanja.

But why is it so hard to slow down?

I think there are various reasons.

Punimo glave zabavom i zauzetošću da ne bismo morali da postavljamo pitanja

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

da li sam dobro, da li sam srećan, da li moja deca odrastaju na pravi način.

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

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

Da li političari donose dobre odluke u moje ime?

that speed becomes a way of walling ourselves off

Drugi razlog - iako, možda, najmoćniji -

from the bigger, deeper questions.

We fill our head with distraction, with busyness,

zašto nam je teško da usporimo je kulturni tabu

so that we don't have to ask,

koji smo stvorili protiv usporavanja.

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

„Sporo“ je ružna reč u našoj kulturi.

Are politicians making good decisions on my behalf?

To je izraz za „lenj“, „zabušant“,

za nekoga ko odustaje.

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

Znate, „on je malo spor.“

U stvari je sinonim za „glup“.

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

that we've erected against slowing down.

Svrha pokreta usporavanja,

ili njegov glavni cilj je da se pozabavi tim tabuom

"Slow" is a dirty word in our culture.

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

i da kaže da jeste,

for being somebody who gives up.

ponekad usporavanje nije rešenje,

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

da postoji nešto što je „loše usporavanje“.

with being stupid.

Znate, zaglavio sam na putu M25,

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

koji je obilaznica oko Londona, skoro, i proveo tri i po sata tamo.

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

Mogu vam reći, to je stvarno loše usporavanje.

and to say that yes,

Ali nova ideja,

sometimes slow is not the answer,

revolucionarna ideja pokreta usporavanja,

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

je da postoji i nešto što je „dobro usporavanje“.

You know, I got stuck on the M25,

Dobro usporavanje je, znate, odvojiti vreme za obrok sa porodicom,

which is a ring road around London, recently,

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

sa isključenim TV-om.

that's really bad slow.

Ili odvojiti vreme da sagledate problem iz svih uglova u kancelariji

But the new idea,

da biste doneli najbolju odluku na poslu.

the sort of revolutionary idea, of the Slow Movement,

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

Ili jednostavno samo odvojiti vreme da usporite

And good slow is, you know, taking the time

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

i uživate u životu.

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

Jedna od stvari za koju sam otkrio da je najpodsticajnija

u vezi sa svim ovim stvarima koje su desile oko knjige otkad je izašla,

in the office to make the best decision

at work.

je reakcija na nju.

Or even simply just taking the time

Znao sam, kada moja knjiga o usporavanju izađe,

to slow down

and savor your life.

da će je dobro prihvatiti pristalice Nju ejdža,

Now, one of the things that I found most uplifting

ali je takođe primljena, sa velikim oduševljenjem,

u korporativnom svetu poslovnih medija,

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

ali i u velikim kompanijama i vodećim organizacijama.

since it came out, is the reaction to it.

Zato što ljudi na čelu, ljudi kao što ste vi, mislim,

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

it would be welcomed by the New Age brigade,

počinju da shvataju da postoji previše brzine u sistemu,

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

da postoji previše zauzetosti i da je vreme da se pronađe

by the corporate world -- you know,

business press, but also

ili da se vrati ta davno izgubljena veština menjanja brzina.

big companies and leadership organizations.

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

Još jedan ohrabrujući znak, mislim,

are starting to realize that there's too much

je da ova ideja nije prihvaćena samo u razvijenim zemljama.

speed in the system,

U zemljama u razvoju,

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

u zemljama koje su na ivici da naprave taj korak

or get back to that lost art of shifting gears.

ka prvoklasnom statusu - Kina, Brazil, Tajland, Poljska i tako dalje -

ove zemlje su prigrlile ideju pokreta usporenja,

Another encouraging sign, I think,

is that it's not just in the developed world

mnogi ljudi u njima, i u toku je debata u njihovim medijima i na ulici.

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

in countries that are on the verge of making that leap

Zato što oni gledaju ka Zapadu, i kažu:

into first world status -- China, Brazil,

„Pa, sviđa nam se taj aspekt onoga što imate,

Thailand, Poland, and so on --

ali nismo baš sigurni što se ovog tiče.“

these countries have embraced the idea of the Slow Movement,

Posle svega rečenog,

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

da li je to moguće?

in their media, on the streets.

To je u stvari glavno pitanje pred nama danas.

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

Da li je moguće usporiti?

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

Srećan sam što mogu da vam kažem

but we're not so sure about that."

da je odgovor glasno „da“.

So all of that said, is it,

Predstavljam sebe kao eksponat A,

I guess, is it possible?

kao nekakvog popravljenog i rehabilitovanog brzinoholičara.

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

to slow down? And

I dalje volim brzinu.

Znate, živim u Londonu, radim kao novinar,

I'm happy to be able to say to you

that the answer is a resounding yes.

uživam u brzini, žurbi

And I present myself as Exhibit A,

i adrenalinskom naletu koji proističe iz njih.

a kind of reformed and rehabilitated

Igram skvoš i hokej na ledu, dva veoma brza sporta,

speed-aholic.

i ne bih ih se odrekao ni za šta na svetu.

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

Ali sam takođe, tokom ovih godinu dana,

and I work as a journalist,

stupio u kontakt sa mojom unutrašnjom kornjačom.

and I enjoy the buzz and the busyness,

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

(Smeh)

A to znači da više

I play squash and ice hockey,

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

ne preopterećujem sebe bespotrebno.

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

Moj uobičajeni način funkcionisanja više nije brzinoholičarski.

got in touch with my inner tortoise.

(Laughter)

And what that means is that

Više ne čujem

I no longer

kočiju vremena kako se približava,

overload myself gratuitously.

ili bar ne toliko kao ranije.

Čujem je upravo sada, jer vidim da mi vreme ističe.

My default mode is no longer

Ishod svega toga

to be a rush-aholic.

je da se u stvari osećam mnogo srećnije, zdravije,

I no longer hear

time's winged chariot drawing near,

produktivnije nego ikada pre.

or at least not as much as I did before.

Osećam kao da živim svoj život

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

umesto da samo jurcam kroz njega.

And the upshot of all of that is that

I možda, najvažnije merilo uspeha ovoga

I actually feel a lot happier, healthier,

more productive than I ever have.

je da osećam da su moji odnosi sa drugima mnogo produbljeniji, bogatiji, jači.

I feel like I'm living

Za mene će, pretpostavljam, pravi test da li će ovo delovati i šta će značiti,

my life rather than actually just racing through it.

And perhaps, the most important

uvek biti priče za laku noć,

measure of the success of this

jer odatle je na neki način putovanje i krenulo.

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

Tu je vest takođe ružičasta.

richer, stronger.

Znate, na kraju dana, odem u sobu svog sina.

And for me, I guess, the litmus test

Ne nosim sat. Ugasim kompjuter, da ne čujem imejl kako odzvanja u inboksu,

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

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

samo se prilagodim njegovoj brzini i čitamo.

the journey began. And there too the news is

A pošto deca imaju svoj tempo i unutrašnji sat,

rosy. You know,

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

oni nemaju kvalitetno vreme,

gde zakažete 10 minuta da vam se oni otvore.

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

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

Potrebno im je da se krećete u njihovom ritmu.

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

Desi se da nakon 10 minuta priče moj sin iznenada kaže:

„Znaš, nešto se desilo danas na igralištu što me muči.“

And because children have their own tempo and internal clock,

they don't do quality time,

I onda bismo nastavili razgovor o tome.

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

Sada vidim da su priče za laku noć

They need you to move at their rhythm.

nekada bile obaveza na mojoj listi, nešto čega sam se užasavao,

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

my son will suddenly say, "You know,

jer je bilo sporo, a ja sam morao da odradim to brzo.

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

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

Postalo je moja nagrada na kraju dana,

nešto što stvarno negujem.

And I now find that bedtime stories

I imam na neki način holivudski kraj mog govora ovog popodneva,

used to be

koji glasi ovako nekako.

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

Pre nekoliko meseci, spremao sam se da idem na još jednu turneju,

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

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

i torbe su mi bile spakovane.

something I really cherish.

Bio sam dole kod ulaznih vrata i čekao sam taksi,

And I have a kind of Hollywood ending

a moj sin je sišao niz stepenice i napravio je čestitku za mene.

to my talk this afternoon,

which goes a little bit like this:

Nosio ju je. Uzeo je i zalepio dve kartice, slične ovim,

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

i stavio je nalepnicu svog omiljenog lika, Tintina, napred.

another book tour, and I had my bags packed.

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

I rekao mi je,

and my son came down the stairs and

to jest, dao mi je to i ja sam pročitao,

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

a pisalo je: „Tati, s ljubavlju, Bendžamin.“

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

Pomislio sam: „O, to je baš lepo.

and put a sticker of his favorite

Da li je to čestitka za sreću na turneji?“

character, Tintin, on the front.

A on je rekao: „Ne, ne, tata, to je čestitka

And he said to me,

zato što najbolje čitaš priče za laku noć.“

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

I pomislio sam: „Da, znate, ovo sa usporavanjem zaista deluje.“

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

Hvala puno.

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

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

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

for being the best story reader in the world."

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

Thank you very much.