Fa alguns anys em sentia com si estés encallat en una rutina, així que vaig decidir seguir les passes del gran filòsof americà Morgan Spurlock, i provar quelcom nou durant trenta dies. La idea és ben simple en realitat. Pensa en quelcom que sempre hagis volgut incorporar a la teva vida i prova-ho els propers trenta dies. Resulta que trenta dies és la quantitat perfecta de temps per a incorporar un nou hàbit o substreure un hàbit... com mirar les noticies... de la teva vida.
A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut, so I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American philosopher, Morgan Spurlock, and try something new for 30 days. The idea is actually pretty simple. Think about something you've always wanted to add to your life and try it for the next 30 days. It turns out 30 days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit -- like watching the news -- from your life.
He après diverses coses mentres feia aquests reptes de trenta dies. La primera va ser, enlloc de passar els mesos volant, perduts, el temps era molt més memorable. Això va ser part d'un repte que vaig fer de fer una foto cada dia durant un mes. I recordo exactament on era i què feia aquell dia. També em vaig adonar que quan vaig començar a fer més reptes de trenta dies i més durs, la meva auto-confiança va créixer. Vaig passar de ser un informàtic setciències que vivia en un escriptori al tipus de tio que va a la feina amb bici per diversió. Fins i tot l'any passat vaig acabar pujant el mont Kilimanjaro, la muntanya més alta d'Àfrica. Mai havia estat tan aventurer abans de començar els meus reptes de trenta dies.
There's a few things I learned while doing these 30-day challenges. The first was, instead of the months flying by, forgotten, the time was much more memorable. This was part of a challenge I did to take a picture every day for a month. And I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing that day. I also noticed that as I started to do more and harder 30-day challenges, my self-confidence grew. I went from desk-dwelling computer nerd to the kind of guy who bikes to work. For fun! (Laughter) Even last year, I ended up hiking up Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. I would never have been that adventurous before I started my 30-day challenges. I also figured out that if you really want something badly enough,
També vaig descobrir que si realment vols una cosa de forma imperiosa, pots fer qualsevol cosa durant trenta dies. Has volgut mai escriure una novel.la? Cada novembre, desenes de mil.lers de persones proven d'escriure la seva propia novel.la de cinquanta mil paraules des de zero en trenta dies. Resulta que, tot el què has de fer és escriure mil sis-centes paraules cada dia durant un mes. I així ho vaig fer. Per cert, el secret és no anar-se'n a dormir fins que no has escrit les paraules d'aquell dia. Potser patiràs falta de son però acabaràs la novel.la. Serà el meu llibre la propera gran novel.la americana? No. La vaig escriure en un mes. És espantosa. Però durant la resta de la meva vida, si em trobo en John Hodgman en una festa de TED, no haig de dir "Sóc un informàtic". No, no, si vull puc dir: "Sóc novel.lista".
you can do anything for 30 days. Have you ever wanted to write a novel? Every November, tens of thousands of people try to write their own 50,000-word novel, from scratch, in 30 days. It turns out, all you have to do is write 1,667 words a day for a month. So I did. By the way, the secret is not to go to sleep until you've written your words for the day. You might be sleep-deprived, but you'll finish your novel. Now is my book the next great American novel? No. I wrote it in a month. It's awful. (Laughter) But for the rest of my life, if I meet John Hodgman at a TED party, I don't have to say, "I'm a computer scientist." No, no, if I want to, I can say, "I'm a novelist."
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Hi ha una última cosa que m'agradaria mencionar. Vaig aprendre que quan feia canvis petits i sostenibles, coses que podia seguir fent, tenia més probabilitats que es consolidessin. No hi ha res dolent en els reptes grans i bojos. De fet, són súper divertits. Però és menys probable que es consolidin. Quan vaig deixar el sucre durant trenta dies, el dia trenta-u tenia aquesta pinta.
So here's one last thing I'd like to mention. I learned that when I made small, sustainable changes, things I could keep doing, they were more likely to stick. There's nothing wrong with big, crazy challenges. In fact, they're a ton of fun. But they're less likely to stick. When I gave up sugar for 30 days, day 31 looked like this.
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Així que aquesta és la meva pregunta per a vosaltres: Què esteu esperant? Us garanteixo que els trenta propers dies passaran tant si voleu com si no, així que perquè no penseu alguna cosa que sempre hagueu volgut provar i donar-li una oportunitat els trenta propers dies?
So here's my question to you: What are you waiting for? I guarantee you the next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not, so why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot! For the next 30 days.
Gràcies.
Thanks.
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