Raise your hand if you've ever been asked the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Podignite ruke, ako su vas ikada pitali: "Šta želite da budete kad porastete?"
Now if you had to guess, how old would you say you were when you were first asked this question? You can just hold up fingers. Three. Five. Three. Five. Five. OK. Now, raise your hand if the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" has ever caused you any anxiety.
Sad, kad biste morali da nagađate, šta mislite koliko ste imali godina kada su vas prvi put to pitali? Možete samo da podignete prste. Tri. Pet. Tri. Pet. Pet. U redu. Sad, podignite ruku, ako vam je pitanje: "Šta želite da budete kad porastete?" ikada uzrokovalo nespokoj.
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Any anxiety at all.
Bar blagi nespokoj.
I'm someone who's never been able to answer the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Ja sam neko ko nikada nije mogao da odgovori na pitanje: "Šta želiš da budeš kad porasteš?"
See, the problem wasn't that I didn't have any interests -- it's that I had too many. In high school, I liked English and math and art and I built websites and I played guitar in a punk band called Frustrated Telephone Operator. Maybe you've heard of us.
Vidite, problem nije bio to što uopšte nisam imala interesovanja - već sam ih imala previše. U srednjoj školi sam volela engleski, matematiku, likovno i pravila sam internet sajtove i svirala sam gitaru u pank bendu pod nazivom "Isfrustrirani teleoperater". Možda ste čuli za nas.
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This continued after high school, and at a certain point, I began to notice this pattern in myself where I would become interested in an area and I would dive in, become all-consumed, and I'd get to be pretty good at whatever it was, and then I would hit this point where I'd start to get bored. And usually I would try and persist anyway, because I had already devoted so much time and energy and sometimes money into this field. But eventually this sense of boredom, this feeling of, like, yeah, I got this, this isn't challenging anymore -- it would get to be too much. And I would have to let it go.
Tako je bilo i nakon srednje škole i u određenom momentu sam počela da opažam obrazac kod sebe, gde bih se zainteresovala za jednu oblast i bacila bih se na to, potpuno bi me obuzelo i postala bih prilično dobra, u čemu god to bilo, a potom bih stigla do momenta kad bih počela da se dosađujem. I obično bih se u svakom slučaju trudila i istrajavala jer sam već posvetila toliko vremena i energije, a ponekad i novca u datu oblast. Ali naposletku bi onaj osećaj dosađivanja, onaj osećaj, kao: da, kapiram ovo, ovo za mene više nije izazov - postajalo bi previše. I morala bih da odustanem.
But then I would become interested in something else, something totally unrelated, and I would dive into that, and become all-consumed, and I'd be like, "Yes! I found my thing," and then I would hit this point again where I'd start to get bored. And eventually, I would let it go. But then I would discover something new and totally different, and I would dive into that.
Ali onda bih se zainteresovala za nešto drugo, nešto potpuno nevezano i bacila bih se na to i postala bih obuzeta i u fazonu: "To! Pronašla sam moj poziv", a potom bih ponovo stigla do tačke u kojoj sam se dosađivala. I naposletku bih odustala. Ali onda bih otkrila nešto novo i potpuno drugačije i bacila bih se na to.
This pattern caused me a lot of anxiety, for two reasons. The first was that I wasn't sure how I was going to turn any of this into a career. I thought that I would eventually have to pick one thing, deny all of my other passions, and just resign myself to being bored. The other reason it caused me so much anxiety was a little bit more personal. I worried that there was something wrong with this, and something wrong with me for being unable to stick with anything. I worried that I was afraid of commitment, or that I was scattered, or that I was self-sabotaging, afraid of my own success.
Ovaj obrazac mi je uzrokovao mnogo nespokoja iz dva razloga. Prvi je bio u tome što nisam bila sigurna kako da sve ovo pretvorim u karijeru. Mislila sam da ću na kraju morati da izaberem nešto, da negiram sve svoje ostale strasti i da prosto pristanem na dosađivanje. Drugi razlog za toliko nespokoja je bio malo više ličan. Brinula sam se da nešto nije u redu s ovim i da nešto nije u redu sa mnom jer nisam u stanju da se držim bilo čega. Brinula sam se da me je strah od obaveza ili da sam rasejana ili da samu sebe sabotiram, u strahu od sopstvenog uspeha.
If you can relate to my story and to these feelings, I'd like you to ask yourself a question that I wish I had asked myself back then. Ask yourself where you learned to assign the meaning of wrong or abnormal to doing many things. I'll tell you where you learned it: you learned it from the culture.
Ako se prepoznajete u mojoj priči i u ovim osećanjima, volela bih da se zapitate nešto što bih volela da sam samu sebe nekada pitala. Zapitajte se gde ste naučili da značenje pogrešnog i nenormalnog pripisujete bavljenju velkim brojem poslova. Reći ću vam odakle ste to naučili: naučili ste to iz kulture.
We are first asked the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" when we're about five years old. And the truth is that no one really cares what you say when you're that age.
Prvi put nas pitaju: "Šta želiš da budeš kad porasteš?" kada imamo oko pet godina. I istina je da nikog nije zaista briga šta govorite u tom uzrastu.
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It's considered an innocuous question, posed to little kids to elicit cute replies, like, "I want to be an astronaut," or "I want to be a ballerina," or "I want to be a pirate." Insert Halloween costume here.
To se smatra bezazlenim pitanjem za malu decu da bi izmamili od njih slatke odgovore, kao: "Želim da budem astronaut", ili: "Želim da budem balerina", ili: "Želim da budem pirat." Ovde ubacite kostim za Noć veštica.
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But this question gets asked of us again and again as we get older in various forms -- for instance, high school students might get asked what major they're going to pick in college. And at some point, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" goes from being the cute exercise it once was to the thing that keeps us up at night. Why?
Ali ovo nam pitanje postavljaju iznova i iznova kako odrastamo u raznim oblicima - na primer, đake u srednjoj školi mogu da pitaju na čemu će da diplomiraju. I u nekom momentu: "Šta želiš da budeš kad porasteš?" pređe put od nekad simpatične vežbe do onoga što nas drži budnim po noći. Zašto?
See, while this question inspires kids to dream about what they could be, it does not inspire them to dream about all that they could be. In fact, it does just the opposite, because when someone asks you what you want to be, you can't reply with 20 different things, though well-meaning adults will likely chuckle and be like, "Oh, how cute, but you can't be a violin maker and a psychologist. You have to choose."
Vidite, iako ovo pitanje podstiče decu da sanjaju o tome šta bi mogla da budu, ne podstiče ih da sanjaju o svemu što bi mogla da budu. Zapravo, postiže upravo suprotno jer kada vas neko pita šta želite da budete, možete da odgovorite 20 različitih stvari, iako će se dobronamerni odrasli verovatno kikotati, u fazonu: "O, kako je to slatko, ali ne možeš da budeš graditelj violina i psiholog. Moraš da izabereš."
This is Dr. Bob Childs --
Ovo je dr Bob Čajlds -
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and he's a luthier and psychotherapist. And this is Amy Ng, a magazine editor turned illustrator, entrepreneur, teacher and creative director. But most kids don't hear about people like this. All they hear is that they're going to have to choose. But it's more than that. The notion of the narrowly focused life is highly romanticized in our culture. It's this idea of destiny or the one true calling, the idea that we each have one great thing we are meant to do during our time on this earth, and you need to figure out what that thing is and devote your life to it.
i on je graditelj žičanih instrumenata i psihoterapeut. A ovo je Ejmi Ang, urednica časopisa koja je postala ilustrator, preduzetnica, učiteljica i kreativna direktorka. Ali deca većinom ne slušaju o ovakvim ljudima. Sve što čuju je da će morati da odaberu. Ali ne radi se samo o tome. Pretpostavka o usko usredsređenom životu je veoma romantizovana u našoj kulturi. To je predstava o sudbini ili jednom pravom pozivu, predstava o tome da svi imamo jednu važnu stvar kojom nam je suđeno da se bavimo dok smo na zemlji i da morate da pronađete šta je to i da tome posvetite svoj život.
But what if you're someone who isn't wired this way? What if there are a lot of different subjects that you're curious about, and many different things you want to do? Well, there is no room for someone like you in this framework. And so you might feel alone. You might feel like you don't have a purpose. And you might feel like there's something wrong with you. There's nothing wrong with you. What you are is a multipotentialite.
Ali šta ako ste neko ko nema takav sklop? Šta ako ima mnogo različitih oblasti koje vas interesuju i mnogo toga što želite da radite? Pa, nema mesta za ljude poput vas u ovom poretku. Pa se stoga možete osećati usamljeno. Možete se osećati kao da nemate svrhu. I možete da osećate kako nešto nije u redu s vama. Sve je u redu s vama. Vi ste multipotencijalista.
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A multipotentialite is someone with many interests and creative pursuits. It's a mouthful to say. It might help if you break it up into three parts: multi, potential, and ite. You can also use one of the other terms that connote the same idea, such as polymath, the Renaissance person. Actually, during the Renaissance period, it was considered the ideal to be well-versed in multiple disciplines. Barbara Sher refers to us as "scanners." Use whichever term you like, or invent your own. I have to say I find it sort of fitting that as a community, we cannot agree on a single identity.
Multipotencijalista je neko ko ima mnogo interesovanja i kreativnih težnji. Duga je reč za izgovaranje. Možda bi pomoglo, ako bismo je razložili na tri dela: multi, potencijal i ista. Možete takođe da koristite druge termine koji označavaju isti pojam, kao svestrana osoba, renesansna osoba. Zapravo, tokom perioda renesanse smatralo se idealnim biti dobar u različitim disciplinama. Barbara Šer nas naziva "skenerima". Koristite termin koji želite ili izmislite sopstveni. Moram da kažem da mi je to nekako prikladno da kao zajednica ne možemo da se složimo oko jednog pojma.
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It's easy to see your multipotentiality as a limitation or an affliction that you need to overcome. But what I've learned through speaking with people and writing about these ideas on my website, is that there are some tremendous strengths to being this way. Here are three multipotentialite super powers.
Lako je posmatrati vašu multipotencijalnost kao ograničenje i muku koju treba prevazići. Ali naučila sam, razgovarajući s ljudima i pišući o ovim idejama na mom vebsajtu da u ovoj osobini leži ogromna snaga. Ovo su tri supermoći multipotencijalista.
One: idea synthesis. That is, combining two or more fields and creating something new at the intersection. Sha Hwang and Rachel Binx drew from their shared interests in cartography, data visualization, travel, mathematics and design, when they founded Meshu. Meshu is a company that creates custom geographically-inspired jewelry. Sha and Rachel came up with this unique idea not despite, but because of their eclectic mix of skills and experiences. Innovation happens at the intersections. That's where the new ideas come from. And multipotentialites, with all of their backgrounds, are able to access a lot of these points of intersection.
Prva: sinteza ideja. To jest, kombinovanje dve ili više oblasti i stvaranje nečeg novog na njihovom preseku. Ša Hvanga i Rejčel Binks su spojila zajednička interesovanja: kartografija, vizuelizacija podataka, putovanja, matematika i dizajn, kada su osnovali Mešu. Mešu je kompanija koja pravi nakit po porudžbi, inspirisan geografijom. Ša i Rejčel su došli do ove jedinstvene ideje, ne uprkos, već zbog svog eklektičkog spoja veština i iskustava. Inovacija nastaje na presecima. Odatle potiču nove ideje. A multipotencijalisti sa svim svojim iskustvima su u stanju da imaju uvid u mnoge od ovih tačaka preseka.
The second multipotentialite superpower is rapid learning. When multipotentialites become interested in something, we go hard. We observe everything we can get our hands on. We're also used to being beginners, because we've been beginners so many times in the past, and this means that we're less afraid of trying new things and stepping out of our comfort zones. What's more, many skills are transferable across disciplines, and we bring everything we've learned to every new area we pursue, so we're rarely starting from scratch.
Druga supermoć multipotencijalista je brzo učenje. Kada se multipotencijalisti zainteresuju za nešto, vredno se bace na to. Mi osmatramo sve čega se dohvatimo. Takođe smo naviknuti na početke jer smo već toliko puta bili početnici, a to znači da nas je manje strah da probamo nove stvari i da iskoračimo iz ustaljenih stanovišta. Štaviše, mnoge veštine su primenjive na razne discipline, a mi donosimo sve što smo naučili u svaku novu oblast kojom se bavimo, pa retko počinjemo od nule.
Nora Dunn is a full-time traveler and freelance writer. As a child concert pianist, she honed an incredible ability to develop muscle memory. Now, she's the fastest typist she knows.
Nora Dan je zaposlena za stalno kao putnica i honorarna je spisateljica. Kao dečji koncertni pijanista usavršila je neverovatnu veštinu razvoja mišićne memorije. Sada je najbrži daktilograf kog poznaje.
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Before becoming a writer, Nora was a financial planner. She had to learn the finer mechanics of sales when she was starting her practice, and this skill now helps her write compelling pitches to editors. It is rarely a waste of time to pursue something you're drawn to, even if you end up quitting. You might apply that knowledge in a different field entirely, in a way that you couldn't have anticipated.
Pre no što je postala pisac, Nora je bila projektant finansija. Morala je da nauči prefinjenu mehaniku trgovine kada je započela svoju praksu, a ova veština joj sad pomaže da piše neodoljive ponude urednicima. Retko kad je gubljenje vremena sleđenje nečega što vas privlači, čak iako na kraju odustanete. Možete primeniti to znanje na potpuno drugačiju oblast onako kako niste ni očekivali.
The third multipotentialite superpower is adaptability; that is, the ability to morph into whatever you need to be in a given situation. Abe Cajudo is sometimes a video director, sometimes a web designer, sometimes a Kickstarter consultant, sometimes a teacher, and sometimes, apparently, James Bond.
Treća supermoć multipotencijalista je prilagodljivost; to jest, mogućnost da uskočite u bilo šta što želite da budete u bilo kojoj situaciji. Ejb Kahudo je ponekad reditelj spotova, ponekad je vebdizajner, ponked je konsultant na Kikstarteru, ponekad je nastavnik, a ponekad je, očigledno, Džejms Bond.
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He's valuable because he does good work. He's even more valuable because he can take on various roles, depending on his clients' needs. Fast Company magazine identified adaptability as the single most important skill to develop in order to thrive in the 21st century. The economic world is changing so quickly and unpredictably that it is the individuals and organizations that can pivot in order to meet the needs of the market that are really going to thrive.
Dragocen je jer dobro obavlja posao. Još je dragoceniji jer može da preuzme različite uloge, zavisno od potreba klijenata. Časopis "Fast Kompani" je prepoznao moć adaptacije kao veštinu koju je najvažnije razvijati kako biste uspeli u 21. veku. Svet ekonomije se menja tako brzo i nepredvidljivo da su oni pojedinci i one organizacije koji znaju kako da se prilagode kako bi susreli potrebe tržišta, ti koji će da uspeju.
Idea synthesis, rapid learning and adaptability: three skills that multipotentialites are very adept at, and three skills that they might lose if pressured to narrow their focus. As a society, we have a vested interest in encouraging multipotentialites to be themselves. We have a lot of complex, multidimensional problems in the world right now, and we need creative, out-of-the-box thinkers to tackle them.
Sinteza ideja, brzo učenje i prilagodljivost; tri veštine kojima su multipotencijalisti veoma vični i tri veštine koje mogu da izgube, ukoliko ih pritiskate da suze svoj fokus. Kao društvo, imamo zajednički interes da ohrabrujemo multipotencijaliste da budu to što jesu. Imamo mnogo složenih, višedimenzionalnih problema trenutno u svetu i potrebni su nam kreativni mislioci koji razmišljaju nekonvencionalno da ih rešimo.
Now, let's say that you are, in your heart, a specialist. You came out of the womb knowing you wanted to be a pediatric neurosurgeon. Don't worry -- there's nothing wrong with you, either.
Sad, pretpostavimo da ste duboko u sebi specijalista. Izašli ste iz utrobe znajući da želite da budete pedijatar neurohirurgije. Ne brinite - i sa vama je sve u redu.
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In fact, some of the best teams are comprised of a specialist and multipotentialite paired together. The specialist can dive in deep and implement ideas, while the multipotentialite brings a breadth of knowledge to the project. It's a beautiful partnership. But we should all be designing lives and careers that are aligned with how we're wired. And sadly, multipotentialites are largely being encouraged simply to be more like their specialist peers.
Zapravo, najbolje ekipe su sačinjene od uparenih specijalista i multipotencijalista. Specijalisti mogu da zarone u oblast i implementiraju ideje, dok multipotencijalisti donose širinu znanja u projekat. To je prelepo partnerstvo. Ali svi bi trebalo da osmišljavamo živote i karijere u sladu s tim za šta smo stvoreni. I nažalost, multipotencijaliste uglavnom ohrabruju prosto da više liče na svoje kolege specijaliste.
So with that said, if there is one thing you take away from this talk, I hope that it is this: embrace your inner wiring, whatever that may be. If you're a specialist at heart, then by all means, specialize. That is where you'll do your best work. But to the multipotentialites in the room, including those of you who may have just realized in the last 12 minutes that you are one --
S tim na umu, ako nešto želim da vam ostane od ovog govora, nadam se da je to sledeće: prigrlite svoj unutrašnji sklop, kakav god on bio. Ako ste u duši specijalista, pa, tako vam svega, specijalizujte se. Tu ćete postići najbolje rezultate. Ali svim multipotencijalistima ovde, uključujući i one koji su možda upravo shvatili, u poslednjih 12 minuta da su baš to -
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to you I say: embrace your many passions. Follow your curiosity down those rabbit holes. Explore your intersections. Embracing our inner wiring leads to a happier, more authentic life. And perhaps more importantly -- multipotentialites, the world needs us.
vama kažem: prigrlite svoje brojne strasti. Pratite svoju znatiželju niz sve te zečje rupe. Istražujte svoje preseke. Prihvatanje našeg unutrašnjeg sklopa vodi ka srećnijem, autentičnijem životu. I možda je još važnije - multipotencijalisti, potrebni smo svetu.
Thank you.
Hvala vam.
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