Give yourself permission to be creative | Ethan Hawke | TED

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

Trebalo bi da govorim o kreativnosti.

You know, a lot of people really struggle

Znate, mnogo ljudi se plaši

to give themselves permission to be creative.

slobode da budu kreativni.

And reasonably so.

I ne bez razloga.

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

Svi pomalo sumnjamo u svoj talenat.

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

Sećam se priče na koju sam naišao sa svojih dvadesetak godina

that kind of meant a lot to me.

i koja mi je mnogo značila.

I was really into Allen Ginsberg,

Alen Ginsberg me je opčinio,

and I was reading his poetry,

i čitao sam njegovu poeziju,

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

i čitao - davao je mnogo intervjua -

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

i jednom prilikom, Vilijam F. Bakli je imao televizijski program

called "Firing Line,"

koji se zvao "Linija vatre"

and Ginsberg went on there and sang a Hare Krishna song

i u kojem je Ginsberg učestvovao pevajući Hare Krišna

while playing the harmonium.

dok je svirao na harmonijumu.

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

Vratio se u Njujork svojim prijateljima intelektualcima,

and they all told him,

a oni su mu svi rekli,

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

"Zar ne znaš da svi misle da si idiot,

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

smeje ti se cela država?"

And he said, "That's my job.

A on je rekao, "To mi je posao.

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

Ja sam pesnik i izigravaću budalu.

Most people have to go to work all day long,

Većina ljudi mora da radi po ceo dan,

and they come home and they fight with their spouse,

vrate se kući i svađaju sa svojim supružnicima,

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

jedu i uključe stari televizor,

and somebody tries to sell them something,

a neko pokuša da im nešto proda,

and I just screwed all that up.

a ja sam sve to otkačio.

I went on and I sang about Krishna,

Otišao sam i pevao o Krišni,

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

i sada oni sede u krevetu i pitaju "Ko je ovaj glupi pesnik?"

And they can't fall asleep, right?"

I ne mogu da zaspu, je l' tako?"

And that's his job as a poet.

A to jeste njegov posao kao pesnika.

And so, I find that very liberating,

Ovo smatram veoma oslobađajućim,

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

jer mislim da većina nas zaista želi da ponudi svetu

something of quality,

nešto kvalitietno,

something that the world will consider good or important.

nešto što će svet smatrati dobrim ili važnim.

And that's really the enemy,

A tu leži prepreka,

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

jer ne odlučujemo mi o tome da li je ono što radimo dobro,

and if history has taught us anything,

a ako nas je istorija ičemu naučila,

the world is an extremely unreliable critic.

to je da je svet izuzetno nepostojan kritičar.

Right?

Zar ne?

So you have to ask yourself:

Onda se morate zapitati:

Do you think human creativity matters?

Da li mislite da je ljudska kreativnost važna?

Well, hmm.

Pa, hmm.

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

Većina ljudi ne provodi mnogo vremena razmišljajući o poeziji. Je l' tako?

They have a life to live,

Moraju da žive,

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

i ne bave se poezijom Alena Ginzberga

or anybody's poems,

ili nekom drugom,

until their father dies,

dok im ne umre otac,

they go to a funeral,

odu na sahranu,

you lose a child,

izgubite dete,

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

neko vam slomi srce, prestanu da vas vole,

and all of a sudden,

i odjednom,

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

očajnički tražite smisao svog života,

and, "Has anybody ever felt this bad before?

i, da li se iko ikada osećao ovako loše?

How did they come out of this cloud?"

Kako su se oni izvukli iz ovoga?

Or the inverse -- something great.

Ili obrnuto - nešto veličanstveno.

You meet somebody and your heart explodes.

Upoznate nekoga i srce vam eksplodira.

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

Volite toliko da niste u stanju da mislite kako treba.

You know, you're dizzy.

Znate već, vrti vam se.

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

"Da li se neko osećao ovako ranije? Šta mi se dešava?"

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

I tada umetnost više nije luksuz, već životna hrana.

We need it.

Treba nam.

OK. Well, what is it?

OK. Pa, šta je to?

Human creativity is nature manifest in us.

Ljudska kreativnost je manifestacija prirode u nama.

We look at the, oh ...

Posmatramo, recimo,

the aurora borealis. Right?

auroru borealis. Da?

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

Glumio sam u filmu "Beli očnjak", kao klinac,

and we shot up in Alaska,

i snimali smo na Aljasci,

and you go out at night

izašli smo napolje noću

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

a nebo paraju ljubičasta i roze i bela,

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

i to je najlepša stvar koju sam ikada video.

It really looked like the sky was playing.

Izgledalo je kao da se nebo igra.

Beautiful.

Predivno.

You go to Grand Canyon at sundown.

Gledate suton u Grand kanjonu.

It's beautiful.

Prelepo.

We know that's beautiful.

Znamo da je prelepo.

But fall in love?

Ali zaljubljivanje?

Your lover's pretty beautiful.

Vaša ljubav je prilično lepa.

I have four kids.

Imam četvoro dece.

Watching them play?

Posmatranje njihove igre?

Watching them pretend to be a butterfly

Gledam ih dok se pretvaraju da su leptiri

or run around the house and doing anything,

ili samo trče po kući i ne rade ništa.

it's so beautiful.

To je tako lepo.

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

I verujem da smo ovde na ovoj zvezdi u svemiru

to try to help one another. Right?

da pokušamo da pomognemo jedni drugima. Zar ne?

And first we have to survive,

A prvo treba da preživimo,

and then we have to thrive.

a onda i da se razvijamo.

And to thrive, to express ourselves,

Da se razvijamo, da izrazimo sebe,

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

da, pa, upravo tu je smetnja: moramo da poznajemo sebe.

What do you love?

Šta volite?

And if you get close to what you love,

A ako otkrijete šta volite,

who you are is revealed to you,

otkrićete i ko ste,

and it expands.

i tako idete sve dalje.

For me, it was really easy.

Meni je bilo stvarno lako.

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

Prvi put sam profesionalno nastupao sa dvanaest godina.

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

Igrao sam u komadu "Sveta Džoan" od Džordža Bernarda Šoa

at the McCarter Theatre,

U MekKarter pozorištu,

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

i - bum! - zaljubio sam se.

My world just expanded.

Moj svet se proširio.

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

A ta profesija - imam skoro 50 sada -

that profession has never stopped giving back to me,

nikada nije prestala da mi uzvraća,

and it gives back more and more,

i uzvraća mi sve više,

mostly, strangely,

uglavnom, što je čudno,

through the characters that I've played.

kroz likove koje sam glumio.

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

Glumio sam policajce, kriminalce,

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

sveštenike, grešnike,

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

a magija ovoga u životu, više od 30 godina se bavim time,

is that you start to see that my experiences,

je da počnete da uviđate, da moja iskustva,

me, Ethan, is not nearly as unique

moja, Itanova, nisu ni približno tako 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.

A i oni sa mnom.

You start to see how connected we all are.

Počnete da uviđate koliko smo svi povezani.

My great-grandmother, Della Hall Walker Green,

Moja prabaka, Dela Hol Voker Grin,

on her deathbed,

je na svojoj samrtnoj postelji,

she wrote this little biography in the hospital,

napisala malu biografiju u bolnici,

and it was only about 36 pages long,

i bila je svega 36 strana duga,

and she spent about five pages

a od toga je na pet stranica

on the one time she did costumes for a play.

opisivala kako je jednom izrađivala kostime za pozorišni komad.

Her first husband got, like, a paragraph.

Prvom mužu je dodelila, pa, jedan pasus.

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

Samo je pomenula uzgoj pamuka čime se, inače, bavila 50 godina.

Five pages on doing these costumes.

Pet stranica o izradi ovih kostima.

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

Mama mi je dala jedan od prekrivača koje je sašila,

and you can feel it.

i možete osetiti.

She was expressing herself,

Izražavala je sebe,

and it has a power that's real.

a to predstavlja pravu moć.

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

Sećam se kada smo moj polubrat i ja otišli da gledamo "Top Gan",

whatever year that came out.

neke godine kada se pojavio.

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

I sećam se, bilo je vrelo, kada smo izašli iz tržnog centra,

I just looked at him,

samo sam ga pogledao,

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

i obojica smo osetili taj film kao poruku sa neba.

You know? Just ...

Znate? Samo tako...

But completely differently.

Ali potpuno drugačije.

Like, I wanted to be an actor.

Ja sam želeo da budem glumac.

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

Bio sam, u fazonu, moram da nateram ljude da osećaju.

I just want to be a part of that.

Samo želim da budem deo toga.

And he wanted to be in the military.

A on je želeo da postane vojnik.

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

Igrali smo se samo agenata FBI-a, vojnika,

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

vitezova, znate već, a ja bih, kao, pozirao držeći mač,

and he would build a working crossbow

a on bi napravio samostrel

that you could shoot an arrow into a tree.

kojim si mogao da gađaš drvo.

So he joins the army.

I, on postane vojnik.

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

Pa, penzionisao se kao pukovnik u Zelenim beretkama.

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

Više puta odlikovan, ratni veteran Avganistana i Iraka.

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

Sada radi sa decom palih vojnika u kampu za jedrenje.

He gave his life to his passion.

Posvetio je svoj život strasti.

His creativity was leadership,

Njegova kreativnost je bila vođstvo,

leading others,

predvođenje drugih,

his bravery, to help others.

hrabrost, da pomogne drugom.

That was something he felt called to do,

Osećao se pozvanim da to radi,

and it gave back to him.

i to mu se vratilo.

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

Znamo ovo - naš životni vek je tako kratak,

and how we spend it --

i kako ga provedemo -

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

da li ga iskoristimo radeći nešto što nam je važno?

Most of us not.

Većina nas ne.

I mean, it's hard.

Mislim, teško je.

The pull of habit is so huge,

Moć navike je tako jaka,

and that's what makes kids so beautifully creative,

i to čini decu tako čarobno kreativnom,

is that they don't have any habits,

jer ona nemaju navike,

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

i ne mare da li su dobra u nečemu ili ne, zar ne?

They're not building a sandcastle going,

Ne grade peščani dvorac razmišljajući,

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

"Mislim da ću biti zaista dobar graditelj peščanih dvoraca."

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

Samo se bace na bilo koji projekat koji postavite pred njih -

dancing, doing a painting,

plesanje, slikanje,

building something:

pravljenje nečega:

any opportunity they have,

koriste svaku priliku,

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

da bi vas zadivili svojom individualnošću.

It's so beautiful.

To je predivno.

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

Ponekada me brine, kada govorite o kreativnosti,

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

kao o nečemu finom,

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

razumete, ili toplom, ili nečemu prijatnom.

It's not.

E, pa, nije.

It's vital.

Ona je vitalna.

It's the way we heal each other.

Ona je sredstvo kojim isceljujemo jedni druge.

In singing our song,

U pevanju pesama,

in telling our story,

u kazivanju priča,

in inviting you to say,

u pozivu da kažeš,

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

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

we're starting a dialogue.

Tako započinjemo dijalog.

And when you do that, this healing happens,

A kada to učinite, počinje isceljenje,

and we come out of our corners,

i izlazimo iz svojih ćoškova,

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

i međusobno postajemo svedoci obične ljudskosti.

We start to assert it.

I počinjemo da je iskazujemo.

And when we do that, really good things happen.

A kada to radimo, dešavaju se zaista dobre stvari.

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

Pa, ako želite da pomognete svojoj zajednici, ili porodici,

if you want to help your friends,

svojim prijateljima,

you have to express yourself.

morate da izrazite sebe.

And to express yourself, you have to know yourself.

A da biste se izrazili, morate da poznajete sebe.

It's actually super easy.

To je, u stvari, super lako.

You just have to follow your love.

Samo morate da sledite svoju ljubav.

There is no path.

Ne postoji staza.

There's no path till you walk it,

Staza ne postoji dok vi ne zakoračite njome,

and you have to be willing to play the fool.

i morate biti voljni da izigravate budalu.

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

Zato ne čitajte knjigu koju bi trebalo da pročitate,

read the book you want to read.

čitajte knjigu koju želite da čitate.

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

Ne slušajte muziku koju ste nekada voleli.

Take some time to listen to some new music.

Slušajte ponekad i nešto novo.

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

Porazgovarajte, povremeno, i sa nekim sa kim obično ne razgovarate.

I guarantee, if you do that,

Garantujem vam, ako to učinite,

you will feel foolish.

osećaćete se budalasto.

That's the point.

U tome je suština.

Play the fool.

Izigravajte budalu.

(Plays guitar)

(Svira gitaru)

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

(Peva) Želim da odem u Ostin, a želim i da ostanem kod kuće.

Invite our friends over but still be alone.

Pozovem prijatelje, ali i da ostanem sam.

Live for danger.

Živim opasno.

Play it cool.

Budem kul.

Have everyone respect me for being a fool.

I da me svi poštuju što izigravam ludu.