Nilofer Merchant: Got a meeting? Take a walk

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast

Prevodilac: Mile Živković Lektor: Tatjana Jevdjic

What you're doing,

To što radite,

right now, at this very moment,

sada, ovog trenutka,

is killing you.

vas ubija.

More than cars or the Internet

Više nego automobili ili internet

or even that little mobile device we keep talking about,

ili čak taj mali mobilni uređaj o kome stalno pričamo,

the technology you're using the most almost every day

tehnologija koju najviše koristite skoro svakog dana

is this, your tush.

je ovo, vaša guza.

Nowadays people are sitting 9.3 hours a day,

Ljudi trenutno sede 9,3 sati dnevno,

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

što je više nego što spavamo, 7,7 sati.

Sitting is so incredibly prevalent,

Sedenje je tako neverovatno dominantno

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

da se uopšte ne pitamo koliko to radimo,

and because everyone else is doing it,

i zato što to rade svi drugi,

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

ne pada nam na pamet da to nije u redu.

In that way, sitting has become

Na taj način, sedenje je postalo

the smoking of our generation.

pušenje naše generacije.

Of course there's health consequences to this,

Naravno da postoje zdravstvene posledice,

scary ones, besides the waist.

zastrašujuće, osim stomaka.

Things like breast cancer and colon cancer

Stvari poput raka dojke i raka debelog creva

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

direktno su povezane sa nedostatkom fizičke aktivnosti.

Ten percent in fact, on both of those.

Zapravo 10% za obe te stvari.

Six percent for heart disease,

6% za bolesti srca,

seven percent for type 2 diabetes,

7% za dijabetes drugog tipa,

which is what my father died of.

od čega je i umro moj otac.

Now, any of those stats should convince each of us

Bilo koji od ovih podataka bi trebalo da svakog od nas uveri

to get off our duff more,

da se više pokrenemo,

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

ali ako ste imalo poput mene, to se neće desiti.

What did get me moving was a social interaction.

Ono što me je pokrenulo je bila društvena interakcija.

Someone invited me to a meeting,

Neko me je pozvao na sastanak,

but couldn't manage to fit me in

ali nisu mogli da me ubace

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

na obični sastanak u sali za konferenciju, pa su mi rekli:

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

"Sutra moram da prošetam pse. Možeš li da dođeš tada?"

It seemed kind of odd to do,

Učinilo se čudnim,

and actually, that first meeting, I remember thinking,

i zapravo na tom prvom sastanku, sećam se da sam mislila:

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

"Ja moram da postavim sledeće pitanje,"

because I knew I was going to huff and puff

jer sam znala da ću se zadihati

during this conversation.

tokom ovog razgovora.

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

Ipak, uzela sam tu ideju i načinila je svojom.

So instead of going to coffee meetings

Umesto da idem na sastanke uz kafu

or fluorescent-lit conference room meetings,

ili sastanke u konferencijskim salama s fluorescentnim osvteljenjem,

I ask people to go on a walking meeting,

ljude pitam da idu na sastanak uz šetnju,

to the tune of 20 to 30 miles a week.

na ukupno 30 do 50km nedeljno.

It's changed my life.

To je promenilo moj život.

But before that, what actually happened was,

Ali ono što se desilo pre toga je,

I used to think about it as,

you could take care of your health,

da sam o tome mislila ovako,

možete brinuti o svom zdravlju

or you could take care of obligations,

ili o svojim obavezama

and one always came at the cost of the other.

i jedno uvek ide na uštrb drugog.

So now, several hundred of these walking meetings later,

Sada, nakon nekoliko stotina ovih sastanaka uz šetnju,

I've learned a few things.

naučila sam nekoliko stvari.

First, there's this amazing thing

Prvo, tu je neverovatna stvar

about actually getting out of the box

kada se zaista izvučete iz zatvorenog

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

što vodi do otvorenog uma.

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

Bez obzira da li je to priroda ili sama vežba, to jednostavno funkcioniše.

And second, and probably the more reflective one,

A drugo, i verovatno malo dubokoumnije,

is just about how much each of us

je to koliko svako od nas

can hold problems in opposition

može da stoji nasuprot problemima

when they're really not that way.

kada im to nije u prirodi.

And if we're going to solve problems

A ako ćemo rešavati probleme

and look at the world really differently,

i zaista drugačije gledati na svet,

whether it's in governance or business

bez obzira da li je to u upravljanju državom ili u poslu,

or environmental issues, job creation,

kod ekoloških problema, stvaranja posla,

maybe we can think about how to reframe those problems

možda možemo misliti o tome kako da te probleme stavimo u drugi kontekst

as having both things be true.

tako što bi obe stvari bile istinite.

Because it was when that happened

Jer kada se desilo to

with this walk-and-talk idea

sa ovom idejom šetnje i sastanaka,

that things became doable and sustainable and viable.

stvari su postale moguće, održive i izvedive.

So I started this talk talking about the tush,

Počela sam ovaj govor pričajući o guzi,

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

pa ću završiti sa poentom koja je,

walk and talk.

hodajte i pričajte.

Walk the talk.

Sprovodite reči u dela.

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

Iznenadićete se koliko svež vazduh podstiče razmišljanje,

and in the way that you do,

i na način koji vi to radite,

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

u svoj život ćete uneti potpuno novu grupu ideja.

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)