This is really a two-hour presentation I give to high school students, cut down to three minutes. And it all started one day on a plane, on my way to TED, seven years ago. And in the seat next to me was a high school student, a teenager, and she came from a really poor family. And she wanted to make something of her life, and she asked me a simple little question. She said, "What leads to success?" And I felt really badly, because I couldn't give her a good answer.
To je pravzaprav dvourna predstavitev, ki sem jo pripravil za študente, skrajšana na tri minute. Vse se je začelo nekega dne na letalu proti TEDu sedem let nazaj. Poleg mene je sedela dijakinja, najstnica, ki je prihajala iz zelo revne družine. Hotela je narediti nekaj iz sebe, zato me je vprašala preprosto vprašanje: "Kaj je pot do uspeha?" Počutil sem se nelagodno, ker ji nisem mogel odgovoriti na vprašanje.
So I get off the plane, and I come to TED. And I think, jeez, I'm in the middle of a room of successful people! So why don't I ask them what helped them succeed, and pass it on to kids? So here we are, seven years, 500 interviews later, and I'm going to tell you what really leads to success and makes TEDsters tick.
No, tako sem izstopil iz letala in prišel na TED. Razmišljal sem, saj sem vendar v družbi uspešnih ljudi! Zakaj ne bi njih vprašal, kaj jim je pomagalo na poti do uspeha, in to znanje razdelil otrokom? In tako se znajdemo tukaj, sedem let in 500 intervjujev kasneje, kjer bom tudi vam povedal, kaj zares pripelje do uspeha in naredi TED-ljudi izjemne.
And the first thing is passion. Freeman Thomas says, "I'm driven by my passion." TEDsters do it for love; they don't do it for money.
Prva stvar je strast. Freeman Thomas je rekel: "Strast je moje gonilo." TED-ljudje delajo z ljubeznijo, ne zaradi denarja.
Carol Coletta says, "I would pay someone to do what I do." And the interesting thing is: if you do it for love, the money comes anyway.
Carol Coletta je rekla: "Plačala bi nekomu, da bi lahko delala, kar delam." Najbolj zanimivo je to, da če delaš z ljubeznijo, denar pride sam od sebe.
Work! Rupert Murdoch said to me, "It's all hard work. Nothing comes easily. But I have a lot of fun." Did he say fun? Rupert? Yes!
Delo! Rupert Murdoch mi je povedal: "Vse je težko delo. Nič ne pride samo od sebe. Ampak sem se pa zelo zabaval." Je rekel, da se je zabaval? Rupert? Da, res je!
(Laughter)
TED-ljudje se zabavajo ob delu. In opravljajo težko delo.
TEDsters do have fun working. And they work hard. I figured, they're not workaholics. They're workafrolics.
Ugotovil sem, da niso deloholiki. Ti ljudje uživajo v delu.
(Laughter)
Dobro! Alex Garden je rekel: "Če hočeš biti uspešen, se specializiraj
Good!
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Alex Garden says, "To be successful, put your nose down in something and get damn good at it." There's no magic; it's practice, practice, practice.
in postani prekleto dober v tem." Tu ni nobenega čudeža, samo vaja, vaja, vaja. Osredotoči se. Norman Jewison mi je rekel:
And it's focus. Norman Jewison said to me, "I think it all has to do with focusing yourself on one thing."
"Mislim, da se vse vrti okoli osredotočanja na eno stvar." Premagaj samega sebe! David Gallo pravi: "Trudi se.
And push! David Gallo says, "Push yourself. Physically, mentally, you've got to push, push, push." You've got to push through shyness and self-doubt.
Fizično, pshično. Moraš se potruditi, potruditi in še enkrat potruditi." Moraš premagati sramežljivost in dvom vase. Goldie Hawn pravi: "Vedno sem dvomila vase.
Goldie Hawn says, "I always had self-doubts. I wasn't good enough; I wasn't smart enough. I didn't think I'd make it."
Nisem bila dovolj dober. Nisem bila dovolj dobra. Nisem mislila, da mi bo uselo."
Now it's not always easy to push yourself, and that's why they invented mothers.
Ni vedno lahko se premagati, ampak zato so izumili matere.
(Laughter)
(Applause) Frank Gehry said to me, "My mother pushed me."
Frank Gehry -- Frank Gehry mi je rekel: "Moja mama me je spodbujala."
(Laughter)
Bodi ustrežljiv! Sherwin Nuland pravi: "Zame je privilegij delati kot zdravnik."
Serve! Sherwin Nuland says, "It was a privilege to serve as a doctor."
Veliko otrok mi pravi, zakaj bi radi bili miljonarji.
A lot of kids want to be millionaires. The first thing I say is: "OK, well you can't serve yourself; you've got to serve others something of value. Because that's the way people really get rich."
In prva stvar, ki jo rečem je: "OK, ne moreš biti ustrežljiv sam sebi, moraš drugim postreči z nečim, kar ima vrednost. Kajti le tako ljudje obogatijo."
Ideas! TEDster Bill Gates says, "I had an idea: founding the first micro-computer software company." I'd say it was a pretty good idea. And there's no magic to creativity in coming up with ideas -- it's just doing some very simple things. And I give lots of evidence.
Ideje. Bill Gates pravi: "Imel sem idejo, da ustanovim prvo podjetje, ki izdeluje programsko opremo za mikroračunalnike." Mislim, da je to bila kar dobra ideja. In tu ni nobenega čudeža pri izmišljanju novih idej, samo delaj preproste stvari. In pokazal sem veliko dokazov.
Persist! Joe Kraus says, "Persistence is the number one reason for our success." You've got to persist through failure. You've got to persist through crap! Which of course means "Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure."
Vztrajaj. Joe Kraust pravi: "Vztrajnost je številka ena našega uspeha." Moraš vztrajati tudi ob padcih. Moraš vztrajati! Kar seveda pomeni "kritike, zavrnitve, kretene in pritiske". (smeh)
(Laughter)
Torej, odgovor na to vprašanje je tudi preprost:
So, the answer to this question is simple: Pay 4,000 bucks and come to TED.
Plačaj 4000 dolarjev in pridi na TED.
(Laughter)
Če ti to ne uspe, naredi teh osem stvari - in verjemite mi,
Or failing that, do the eight things -- and trust me, these are the big eight things that lead to success.
to je osem velikih stvari, ki pripeljejo do uspeha.
Thank you TEDsters for all your interviews!
Hvala vsem TEDovcem za intervjuje!
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