Nilofer Merchant: Got a meeting? Take a walk

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Morton Bast

Translator: Zuoxiao ZHANG Reviewer: Pei-Lun Liao

What you're doing,

你哋宜家做緊嘅嘢係害緊你哋

right now, at this very moment,

is killing you.

More than cars or the Internet

就算車，或者網路

or even that little mobile device we keep talking about,

又或者我哋一直講緊嘅智能電話都好

the technology you're using the most almost every day

你每日用佢哋嘅次數都唔夠呢樣咁高

is this, your tush.

就係你哋嘅臀部

Nowadays people are sitting 9.3 hours a day,

今日，人平均每天坐 9.3 個鐘

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

呢個比我哋嘅瞓覺時間 7.7 個鐘，仲要多

Sitting is so incredibly prevalent,

「坐」係難以置信嘅普遍

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

因為所有人都做緊同樣嘅嘢

and because everyone else is doing it,

而且平時我哋冇諗過我哋坐咗幾耐

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

我哋甚至冇發覺呢樣嘢係唔好

In that way, sitting has become

可以話，我哋呢一代坐嘅問題

the smoking of our generation.

等如上一代人吸煙嘅問題

Of course there's health consequences to this,

坐當然仲有不良嘅健康後果

scary ones, besides the waist.

當中嚇人嘅，除咗腰部問題之外

Things like breast cancer and colon cancer

仲包括乳癌同結腸癌

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

呢兩樣都同缺少運動直接相關

Ten percent in fact, on both of those.

缺少運動嘅人當中分別有一成人 患上咗乳癌同結腸癌

Six percent for heart disease,

亦都有 6% 缺少運動嘅人患上心臟病

seven percent for type 2 diabetes,

7% 嘅人患上 2 型糖尿病

which is what my father died of.

2 型糖尿病亦都我爸爸過身嘅原因

Now, any of those stats should convince each of us

到呢一刻，呢啲統計應該都說服到我哋

to get off our duff more,

唔好由朝坐到晚

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

但如果你好似我咁 仍然都係無動於衷嘅話

What did get me moving was a social interaction.

咁社交就係令你同我活動嘅原因

Someone invited me to a meeting,

人哋叫我參加一個會議

but couldn't manage to fit me in

但係安排唔到畀我入去

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

於是就話

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

「我聽日會同狗仔一齊散步， 你會嚟嗎？」

It seemed kind of odd to do,

咁樣聽起嚟可能好奇怪

and actually, that first meeting, I remember thinking,

但係，我記得第一次開會嘅時候

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

我同自己講「我要問下個問題」

because I knew I was going to huff and puff

查實係因為開會期間 我會不停咁氣咳同普通咳

during this conversation.

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

而我又唔想影響大家

想早啲問完問題走

So instead of going to coffee meetings

所以，我決定與其飲咖啡開會

or fluorescent-lit conference room meetings,

或者喺會議室開會

I ask people to go on a walking meeting,

我倒不如叫人哋同我一邊行路一邊開會

to the tune of 20 to 30 miles a week.

一個星期大概 20 到 30 英里

It's changed my life.

咁樣嘅開會方式改變咗我

But before that, what actually happened was,

其實做行路開會之前

我曾經覺得健康同工作不可兼得

I used to think about it as,

you could take care of your health,

or you could take care of obligations,

and one always came at the cost of the other.

無可能兩全其美

So now, several hundred of these walking meetings later,

但係宜家，經過幾百次行路開會之後

I've learned a few things.

我學到一啲嘢

First, there's this amazing thing

首先，我哋其實可以跳出傳統思維框框

about actually getting out of the box

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

做未做過嘅嘢

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

就算係同大自然或者運動有關嘅事也好

呢種思維模式確係有用

And second, and probably the more reflective one,

第二點，或者係我最反思深刻嘅一點

is just about how much each of us

講緊我哋好多時會將問題放大到無限大

can hold problems in opposition

when they're really not that way.

而啲問題其實唔係我哋睇到嘅咁大

And if we're going to solve problems

如果我哋解決問題

and look at the world really differently,

以及用第二個角度去看待呢個世界

whether it's in governance or business

包括政治、商業、環境、就業方面

or environmental issues, job creation,

maybe we can think about how to reframe those problems

同重新詮釋面對嘅問題

as having both things be true.

令佢哋正反兩面睇起嚟都正確

Because it was when that happened

當你重新了解問題

with this walk-and-talk idea

然後又同人哋一路行路一路開會

that things became doable and sustainable and viable.

好多嘢就會變成做得到、可持續 同埋切實可行

So I started this talk talking about the tush,

我開頭講到臀部

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

我最尾想講︰

大家要行路同開會

walk and talk.

Walk the talk.

畀行路帶領談話

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

當你做到時

你會發現新鮮空氣可以畀到你新嘅思維

and in the way that you do,

亦都因為你做事方式唔同咗

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

你會有全新嘅想法

Thank you.

多謝大家

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(Applause)