Ono što radite, sada, upravo u ovom trenutku, ubija vas. Više od auta ili interneta ili čak tog malog mobilnog uređaja o kojem stalno pričamo, tehnologija koju koristite najviše skoro svaki dan je ovo, vaša guza. Danas ljudi sjede 9,3 sati dnevno, više nego što spavaju, a to je 7,7 sati. Sjedenje toliko preovladava da se čak ne pitamo ni koliko to radimo, a budući da svi to rade, ni na pamet nam ne pada da to zapravo nije u redu. Tako je sjedenje postalo pušenje naše generacije.
What you're doing, right now, at this very moment, is killing you. More than cars or the Internet or even that little mobile device we keep talking about, the technology you're using the most almost every day is this, your tush. Nowadays people are sitting 9.3 hours a day, which is more than we're sleeping, at 7.7 hours. Sitting is so incredibly prevalent, we don't even question how much we're doing it, and because everyone else is doing it, it doesn't even occur to us that it's not okay. In that way, sitting has become the smoking of our generation.
Naravno da ovo donosi posljedice po zdravlje, one ozbiljne, pored struka. Rak dojke i rak debelog crijeva su direktno povezani sa nedostatkom naše fizičke aktivnosti, Zapravo, 10 posto ide na oboje. Šest posto na srčano oboljenje, sedam posto na dijabetes tip 2, od čega je moj otac umro. Ova statistika nas treba uvjeriti da se više krećemo, ali ako ste iole kao ja, neće.
Of course there's health consequences to this, scary ones, besides the waist. Things like breast cancer and colon cancer are directly tied to our lack of physical [activity], Ten percent in fact, on both of those. Six percent for heart disease, seven percent for type 2 diabetes, which is what my father died of. Now, any of those stats should convince each of us to get off our duff more, but if you're anything like me, it won't.
Ono što me je pokrenulo zapravo je društvena interakcija. Neko me je pozvao na sastanak, ali nije uspio da me ubaci na uobičajen sastanak u sobi za sastanke, i rekao: "Moram prošetati svoje pse sutra. Možeš li tada doći"? Bilo je nekako čudno da tako nešto uradim, na tom prvom sastanku sjećam se da sam pomislila: "Moram ja biti ta koja će postaviti iduće pitanje", jer sam znala da ću jedva disati tokom razgovora. Ipak, uzela sam tu ideju i prisvojila je. Umjesto da sastanak održim uz kafu ili u sobi za sastanke osvijetljenoj florescentnim svjetlom, pozovem ljude da sastanak održimo u šetnji od 30 do 50 kilometara sedmično. To mi je promijenilo život.
What did get me moving was a social interaction. Someone invited me to a meeting, but couldn't manage to fit me in to a regular sort of conference room meeting, and said, "I have to walk my dogs tomorrow. Could you come then?" It seemed kind of odd to do, and actually, that first meeting, I remember thinking, "I have to be the one to ask the next question," because I knew I was going to huff and puff during this conversation. And yet, I've taken that idea and made it my own. So instead of going to coffee meetings or fluorescent-lit conference room meetings, I ask people to go on a walking meeting, to the tune of 20 to 30 miles a week. It's changed my life.
Prije toga, ono što se zapravo desilo je da sam mislila da se možeš pobrinuti za svoje zdravlje ili za svoje obaveze, a jedno uvijek ide na uštrb drugog. Sada, nakon nekoliko stotina ovakvih sastanaka u šetnji, naučila sam par stvari.
But before that, what actually happened was, 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. So now, several hundred of these walking meetings later, I've learned a few things.
Prvo, tu je ova nevjerovatna stvar vezana za iskakanje iz zacrtanih okvira, što vodi ka kreativnom razmišljanju. Bilo da se radi o prirodi ili samom vježbanju, to sigurno djeluje.
First, there's this amazing thing about actually getting out of the box that leads to out-of-the-box thinking. Whether it's nature or the exercise itself, it certainly works.
Drugo, možda ono o čemu više razmišljamo, je zapravo koliko svako od nas vidi probleme drugačije nego što jesu. A ako namjeravamo riješiti probleme i gledati svijet drugačije, bilo da se radi o upravljanju ili biznisu ili ekološkim problemima, stvaranju radnih mjesta, možemo razmisliti kako da te probleme redefinišemo tako da obje stvari budu istinite. Jer upravo se tada desilo uz ovu ideju šetanja i pričanja da su stvari postale izvodive, održive i primjenjive.
And second, and probably the more reflective one, is just about how much each of us can hold problems in opposition when they're really not that way. And if we're going to solve problems and look at the world really differently, whether it's in governance or business or environmental issues, job creation, maybe we can think about how to reframe those problems as having both things be true. Because it was when that happened with this walk-and-talk idea that things became doable and sustainable and viable.
Ovaj govor sam počela pričajući o guzi, a završit ću ga ključnom poentom, to jest, šetajte i pričajte. Pričajte u šetnji. Iznenadit ćete se koliko svjež zrak potiče svježe razmišljanje, i na način kako vi to radite, doći ćete do potpuno novih ideja.
So I started this talk talking about the tush, so I'll end with the bottom line, which is, walk and talk. Walk the talk. You'll be surprised at how fresh air drives fresh thinking, and in the way that you do, you'll bring into your life an entirely new set of ideas.
Hvala.
Thank you.
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