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Immersing himself in alternate lifestyles and long, hilarious experiments (usually with himself the guinea pig), writer AJ Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture, knowledge -- and his wife's sense of humor.

Why you should listen

AJ Jacobs' writings stand at the intersection of philosophy, Gonzo journalism and performance art. Stubbornly curious and slyly perceptive, he takes immersive learning to its irrational and profoundly amusing extreme -- extracting wisdom and meaning after long stints as a self-styled guinea pig. For his widely circulated Esquire article "My Outsourced Life," he explored the phenomenon of outsourcing by hiring a team in Bangalore to take care of every part of his life -- from reading his emails to arguing with his wife to reading bedtime stories to his own son. A previous article, "I Think You're Fat," chronicled a brief, cringe-inducing attempt to live his life in Radical Honesty, telling all the truth, all the time.

Jacobs is author of The Know-It-All, which documents the year he spent reading the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z, uncovering both funny and surprising factoids but also poignant insight into history and human nature. In 2007 he released The Year of Living Biblically, in which he attempted to follow every single rule in the Bible as literally as possible for an entire year. His recent book The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment is a collection of numerous personal experiments. including living according to George Washington's rules of conduct, outsourcing every single task to India, and posing as a woman on an online dating site. 

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TEDMED 2011

AJ Jacobs: How healthy living nearly killed me

A.J. Jacobs: Kako me je zdravi život zamalo ubio

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Tijekom cijele godine A.J. Jacobs je pratio svaki mogući zdravstveni savjet -- od redovitog nanošenja losiona za sunčanje do nošenja biciklističke kacige za vrijeme kupovine. Na pozornici TEDMED-a dijeli iznenađujuća iskustva koja je naučio.
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Immersing himself in alternate lifestyles and long, hilarious experiments (usually with himself the guinea pig), writer AJ Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture, knowledge -- and his wife's sense of humor. Full bio

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I've spentpotrošen the last decadedesetljeće
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subjectingpodvrgavanju myselfsebe to painbol and humiliationponiženje,
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prepuštajući se boli i poniženju,
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hopefullynadajmo se for a good causeuzrok,
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nadam se s dobrim razlogom,
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whichkoji is self-improvementSelf-poboljšanje.
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poput samopoboljšanja.
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And I've doneučinio this in threetri partsdijelovi.
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I to sam radio u tri faze.
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So first I startedpočeo with the mindum.
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Prvo sam započeo s umom.
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And I decidedodlučio to try to get smarterpametnije
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Odlučio sam da ću pokušati postati pametniji
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by readingčitanje the entirečitav EncyclopediaEnciklopedija BritannicaBritannica
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čitajući kompletnu Encyclopediu Britannicu
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from A to Z --
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od A do Z --
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or, more preciselyprecizno, from "a-aka ak" to "ZywiecZywiec."
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ili preciznije, od "a-ak" do "Zywiec."
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And here'sevo a little imageslika of that.
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Ovo je mala slika toga.
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And this was an amazingnevjerojatan yeargodina.
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To je bila nevjerojatna godina.
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It was really a fascinatingfascinantan journeyputovanje.
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Bilo je stvarno fascinantno putovanje.
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It was painfulbolan at timesputa,
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Bilo je ponekad bolno,
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especiallyposebno for those around me.
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posebno za one oko mene.
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My wifežena startedpočeo to fine me one dollardolar
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Žena mi je počela naplaćivati kaznu jedan dolar
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for everysvaki irrelevantbeznačajan factčinjenica I insertedumetnuta into conversationrazgovor.
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za svaku nepotrebnu činjenicu koju sam ubacio u razgovor.
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So it had its downsidesmane.
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Tako da ima mane.
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But after that,
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Ali nakon toga,
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I decidedodlučio to work on the spiritduh.
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odlučio sam raditi na duhu.
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As I mentionedspominje last yeargodina,
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Kako sam spomenuo prošle godine,
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I grewrastao up with no religionreligija at all.
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odrastao sam bez religije.
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I'm JewishŽidovski,
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Ja sam Židov,
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but I'm JewishŽidovski in the sameisti way the OliveMaslina GardenVrt is Italiantalijanski.
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ali sam Židov na isti način kako je "Olive Garden" (američki lanac restorana) talijanski.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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Not really.
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Ne previše.
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But I decidedodlučio to learnnaučiti about the BibleBiblija and my heritagebaština
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Ali odlučio sam učiti o Bibliji i svojem porijeklu
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by actuallyzapravo divingronjenje in
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zapravo uranjajući
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and tryingtežak to liveživjeti it and immersezaroniti myselfsebe in it.
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i pokušavajući živjeti i udubiti se u to.
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So I decidedodlučio to followslijediti all the rulespravila of the BibleBiblija.
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Tako sam odlučio pratiti sva pravila Biblije.
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And from the TenDeset CommandmentsZapovijedi
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I od Deset božjih zapovijedi
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to growingrastući my beardbrada --
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do puštanja brade --
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because LeviticusLevitski zakonik sayskaže you cannotNe možete shavebrijanje.
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jer je Leviticus rekao da se ne možeš brijati.
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So this is what I lookedgledao like by the endkraj.
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Pa je ovo kako sam izgledao na kraju.
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Thank you for that reactionreakcija.
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Hvala na toj reakciji.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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I look a little like MosesMojsije, or TedTed KaczynskiKaczynski.
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Pomalo sam izgledao kao Mojsije, ili Ted Kaczynski.
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I got bothoba of them.
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Uspio sam kao oboje.
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So there was the topiaryvještina gajenja biljaka there.
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Počeo sam se baviti vještinom gajenja biljaka.
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And there's the sheepovca.
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I ovdje je ovca.
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Now the finalkonačni partdio of the trilogytrilogija
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I sad posljednji dio trilogije,
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was I wanted to focusfokus on the bodytijelo
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želio sam se usredotočiti na tijelo
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and try to be the healthiestnajzdravije personosoba I could be,
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i biti najzdravija moguća osoba,
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the healthiestnajzdravije personosoba aliveživ.
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najzdravija živa osoba.
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So that's what I've been doing the last couplepar of yearsgodina.
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I to sam radio zadnjih nekoliko godina.
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And I just finishedgotov a couplepar of monthsmjeseci agoprije.
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I upravo sam prestao prije par mjeseci.
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And I have to say, thank God.
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I moram reći, hvala bogu.
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Because livingživot so healthilyZdravo was killingubijanje me.
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Zato jer sam živio tako zdravo da me to ubijalo.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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It was so overwhelmingneodoljiv,
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Bilo je tako pretjerano,
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because the amountiznos of things you have to do,
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jer količina stvari koje se trebaju napraviti,
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it's just mind-bogglingfantastičnih.
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mozak vam pregori.
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I was listeningslušanje to all the expertsstručnjaci
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Slušao sam stručnjake
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and talkingkoji govori to sortvrsta of a boardodbor of medicalmedicinski adviserssavjetnici.
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i pričao s raznim medicinskim savjetnicima.
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And they were tellingreći me
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I oni su mi govorili
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all the things I had to do.
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sve stvari koje trebam raditi.
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I had to eatjesti right,
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Trebam jesti zdravo,
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exercisevježba, meditatemeditirati, petljubimac dogspsi,
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vježbati, meditirati, igrati se s psima,
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because that lowerssmanjuje the bloodkrv pressurepritisak.
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zato jer to snižava krvni tlak.
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I wrotenapisao the bookrezervirati on a treadmilltraka za trčanje,
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Napisao sam knjigu o sobnom biciklu
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and it tookuzeo me about a thousandtisuću milesmilja
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i trebalo mi je oko tisuću milja
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to writepisati the bookrezervirati.
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da napišem knjigu.
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I had to put on sunscreenkrema za sunčanje.
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Mazao sam se s kremom za sunčanje.
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This was no smallmali featpodvig,
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To nije bila mala stvar,
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because if you listen to dermatologistsdermatolozi,
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jer ako slušate dermatologe,
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they say that you should have a shotšut glassstaklo fullpuni of sunscreenkrema za sunčanje.
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oni govore da bi trebali upotrebljavati punu čašicu kreme za sunčanje.
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And you have to reapplyPonovna primjena it everysvaki two to fourčetiri hourssati.
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I trebali bi se ponovno mazati svaka dva sata.
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So I think halfpola of my bookrezervirati advancenapredovati
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Tako da mislim da je polovica mog napretka
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wentotišao into sunscreenkrema za sunčanje.
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otišla na kremu za sunčanje.
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I was like a glazedglazirana doughnutprstenasti
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Bio sam poput premazanog uštipka
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for mostnajviše of the yeargodina.
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većinu godine.
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There was the washingpranje of handsruke.
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Nakon toga je bilo pranje ruku.
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I had to do that properlypropisno.
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Trebao sam to raditi propisno.
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And my immunologistimunolog told me
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I moj imunolog mi je rekao
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that I should alsotakođer wipebrisanje down
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da trebam čistiti
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all of the remotedaljinski controlskontrole and iPhonesiPhone in my housekuća,
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sve daljinske upravljače i iPhone u mojoj kući,
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because those are just orgiesorgije of germsklice.
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jer su oni orgije bacila.
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So that tookuzeo a lot of time.
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Tako da mi je to oduzimalo mnogo vremena.
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I alsotakođer triedpokušala to be the safestnajsigurniji personosoba I could be,
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Pokušavao sam biti najsigurnija moguća osoba,
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because that's a partdio of healthzdravlje.
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jer je to dio zdravlja.
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I was inspirednadahnut
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Bio sam inspiriran
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by the Danishdanski SafetySigurnost CouncilVijeća.
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Danskim Vijećem za Sigurnost.
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They startedpočeo a publicjavnost campaignkampanja
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Oni su započeli kampanju
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that sayskaže, "A walkinghodanje helmetkaciga is a good helmetkaciga."
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koja je govorila "Kaciga za hodanje je dobra kaciga"
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So they believe you should not just wearnositi helmetskacige for bikingbiciklizam,
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Oni vjeruju da ne bi trebali nositi kacigu samo za vožnju bicikla,
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but alsotakođer for walkinghodanje around.
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već i za hodanje naokolo.
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And you can see there
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I ovdje možete vidjeti
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they're shoppingkupovina with theirnjihov helmetskacige.
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da oni idu u šoping sa svojim kacigama.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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Well yeah, I triedpokušala that.
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Pa, da, probao sam to.
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Now it's a little extremekrajnost, I admitpriznati.
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Moram priznati da je malo ekstremno.
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But if you think about this,
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Ali ako razmislite o tome,
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this is actuallyzapravo -- the "FreakonomicsFreakonomics" authorsautori wrotenapisao about this --
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ovo je zapravo -- "Frikonomika", autori su pisali o tome --
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that more people dieumrijeti on a perpo milemilja basisosnova
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da više ljudi pogine po jednoj milji
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from drunkpijan walkinghodanje
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od pijanog hodanja
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than from drunkpijan drivingvožnja.
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nego od pijane vožnje.
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So something to think about tonightvečeras
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I nešto o čemu za razmišljati večeras
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if you've had a couplepar.
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ako ste malo popili.
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So I finishedgotov,
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I tako sam ja završio,
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and it was a successuspjeh in a senseosjećaj.
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i to je bio uspjeh na neki način.
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All of the markersoznake wentotišao in the right directionsmjer.
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Svi pokazatelji su otišli prema pravom smjeru.
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My cholesterolkolesterol wentotišao down, I lostizgubljen weighttežina,
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Moj kolesterol se spustio, izgubio sam na težini,
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my wifežena stoppedprestao tellingreći me that I lookedgledao pregnanttrudna.
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supruga mi je prestala govoriti da izgledam trudno.
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So that was nicelijepo.
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I to je bilo lijepo.
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And it was successfuluspješan overallCjelokupni.
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Sve u svemu sam bio uspješan.
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But I alsotakođer learnednaučeno that I was too healthyzdrav,
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Ali sam također naučio da sam bio previše zdrav,
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and that was unhealthynezdrav.
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i to je bilo nezdravo.
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I was so focusedusmjerena on doing all these things
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Usredotočio sam se na obavljanje svih tih stvari
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that I was neglectingzanemarujući my friendsprijatelji and familyobitelj.
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da sam zapostavljao sve moje prijatelje i obitelj.
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And as DanDan BuettnerBuettner can tell you,
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I kao što bi vam Dan Buettner mogao reći,
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havingima a strongjak socialsocijalni networkmreža
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snažna društvena mreža
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is so crucialpresudan to our healthzdravlje.
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je osnova za naše zdravlje.
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So I finishedgotov.
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I tako sam završio.
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And I kindljubazan of wentotišao overboardu moru
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I možda malo pretjerao
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on the weektjedan after the projectprojekt was over.
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tjedan nakon što je projekt završio.
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I wentotišao to the darkmrak sidestrana,
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Prešao sam na tamnu stranu,
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and I just indulgedupustio myselfsebe.
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i prepustio se.
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It was like something out of CaligulaKaligula.
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Bilo je nešto poput Kaligule.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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WithoutBez the sexseks partdio.
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Bez onog dijela sa seksom.
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Because I have threetri youngmladi kidsdjeca,
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Zato jer imam troje djece,
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so that wasn'tnije happeningdogađa.
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tako da ništa od toga.
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But the over-eating-jesti and over-drinkingprekomjerno pijenje, definitelydefinitivno.
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Ali definitivno sa prejedanjem i opijanjem.
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And I finallykonačno have stabilizedstabiliziran.
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I konačno sam se stabilizirao.
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So now I'm back
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I sad sam normalan
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to adoptingusvajanje manymnogi -- not all; I don't wearnositi a helmetkaciga anymoreviše --
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i prihvatio sam mnoge stvari -- ne sve, ne nosim kacigu više
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but dozensdesetine of healthyzdrav behaviorsponašanja
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ali mnogo zdravih navika
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that I adoptedusvojen duringza vrijeme my yeargodina.
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sam usvojio tijekom mojih godinu dana.
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It was really a life-changingmijenja život projectprojekt.
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To je bio zbilja projekt koji mi je promijenio život.
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And I, of coursenaravno, don't have time to go into all of them.
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I naravno, nemam vremena za detaljnu analizu.
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Let me just tell you two really quicklybrzo.
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Samo da vam kažem par stvari na brzinu.
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The first is -- and this was surprisingiznenađujuće to me;
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Prva je -- i to me stvarno začudilo;
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I didn't expectočekivati this to come out --
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Nisam očekivao takav razvoj situacije --
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but I liveživjeti a much quietertiši life now.
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ali sada živim mnogo mirnije.
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Because we liveživjeti in suchtakav a noisyglasan worldsvijet.
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Zato jer mi živimo u jako bučnom svijetu.
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There's trainsvlakovi and planeszrakoplovi and carsautomobili
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Okruženi smo vlakovima i avionima i automobilima
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and BillBill O'ReillyO'Reilly, he's very noisyglasan.
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i Bill O'Reillyem, on je vrlo glasan.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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And this is a realstvaran underestimatedPodcijenio, under-appreciatedpod poštovati healthzdravlje hazardopasnost --
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I to je stvarno podcijenjeni zdravstveni rizik --
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not just because it harmsšteti our hearingsluh, whichkoji it obviouslyočito does,
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ne samo zbog svih stvari koje čujemo, što je očito,
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but it actuallyzapravo initiatesinicira
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nego zapravo inicira
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the fight-or-flightborba-ili-let responseodgovor.
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borbeni refleks.
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A loudglasno noisebuka will get your fight-or-flightborba-ili-let responseodgovor going.
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Glasna buka će stvarno podići agresiju u vama.
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And this, over the yearsgodina,
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I to, nakon svih godina,
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can causeuzrok realstvaran damagešteta, cardiovascularkardio-vaskularni damagešteta.
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može uzrokovati stvarnu štetu, kardiovaskularnu štetu.
06:19
The WorldSvijet HealthZdravlje OrganizationOrganizacija just did a bigvelika studystudija
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Svjetska zdravstvena organizacija je napravila veliku studiju
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that they publishedObjavljeno this yeargodina.
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koju je objavila ove godine.
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And it was doneučinio in EuropeEurope.
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I bila je provedena u Europi.
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And they estimatedprocijenjen
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I oni su procjenili
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that 1.6 millionmilijuna yearsgodina of healthyzdrav livingživot
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da 1,6 milijuna godina zdravog života
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are lostizgubljen everysvaki yeargodina in EuropeEurope
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su izgubljene svake godine u Europi
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because of noisebuka pollutionzagađenje.
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zbog zagađenja bukom.
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So they think it's actuallyzapravo very deadlyubojit.
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Te oni misle da je to vrlo opasno.
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And by the way,
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I ujedno,
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it's alsotakođer terribleužasan for your brainmozak.
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užasno je za vaš mozak.
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It really impairsnarušava cognitionspoznaja.
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Stvarno smanjuje kognitivne sposobnosti.
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And our FoundingOsnivanje FathersOčevi knewznao about this.
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I naši osnivači su bili svjesni toga.
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When they wrotenapisao the ConstitutionUstav,
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Kada su pisali Ustav,
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they put dirtprljavština all over the cobblestoneskamene ploče outsideizvan the halldvorana
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stavili su zemlju na sve kamenčiće vani
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so that they could concentratekoncentrat.
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kako bi se mogli koncentrirati.
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So withoutbez noisebuka reductionsmanjenje technologytehnologija,
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I tako bez redukcije buke,
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our countryzemlja would not existpostojati.
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ova država ne bi postojala.
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So as a patriotdomoljub,
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I tako kao domoljub,
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I feltosjećala it was importantvažno to --
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Osjećam da je vrlo važno da --
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I wearnositi all the earplugsČepovi za uši and the earphonesslušalice,
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nosim čepove za uši i slušalice
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and it's really improvedpoboljšan my life
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i to je stvarno poboljšalo moj život
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in a surprisingiznenađujuće and unexpectedneočekivan way.
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na iznenađujuć i neočekivan način.
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And the seconddrugi pointtočka I want to make, the finalkonačni pointtočka,
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I druga stvar koju želim reći, najvažnija stvar,
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is that -- and it's actuallyzapravo been a themetema of TEDMEDTEDMED --
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je ta -- i to je zapravo bila tema TEDMED-a --
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that joyradost is so importantvažno to your healthzdravlje,
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radost je toliko važna za vaše zdravlje,
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that very fewnekoliko of these behaviorsponašanja
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da bi malo ovakvog ponašanja
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will stickštap with me
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ostalo u meni
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unlessosim ako there's some senseosjećaj of pleasurezadovoljstvo and joyradost in them.
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da nema nekog osjećaja zadovoljstva i užitka u njima.
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And just to give you one instanceprimjer of this:
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I da vam dam samo jedan primjer toga:
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foodhrana.
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hrana.
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The junkstarudija foodhrana industryindustrija
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Industrija fast-fooda
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is really great
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je stvarno odlična
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at pressingpritiskom our pleasurezadovoljstvo buttonstipke
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djeluje na naše tipke užitka
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and figuringfiguring out what's the mostnajviše pleasurableugodno.
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tako da se usredotoči na ono što nam je najbolje.
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But I think we can use theirnjihov techniquesTehnike
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Ali ja mislim da možemo koristiti te tehnike
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and applyprimijeniti them to healthyzdrav foodhrana.
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i primjeniti ih na zdravu hranu.
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To give just one exampleprimjer,
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Da vam dam samo jedan primjer,
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we love crunchinesscrunchiness, mouthfeelmouthfeel.
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mi volimo hrskav osjećaj.
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So I basicallyu osnovi have triedpokušala to incorporateugraditi crunchinesscrunchiness
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I u osnovi sam pokušavao ugraditi osjećaj hrskavosti
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into a lot of my recipesRecepti --
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u mnoge moje recepte --
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throwbacanje in some sunflowersuncokret seedssjemenke.
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ubaciti mnogo sjemenki od suncokreta.
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And you can almostskoro tricktrik yourselfsami
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Skoro možete sami sebe zavarati
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into thinkingmišljenje you're eatingjelo DoritosČips.
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da jedete čips.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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And it has madenapravljen me a healthierzdravije personosoba.
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I to me učinilo zdravijom osobom.
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So that is it.
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I to je to.
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The bookrezervirati about it comesdolazi out in AprilTravanj.
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Knjiga izlazi van u travnju.
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It's calledzvao "DropPad DeadMrtvih HealthyZdrav."
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I zove se "Ubojito zdrav"
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And I hopenada that I don't get sickbolestan duringza vrijeme the bookrezervirati tourobilazak.
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I nadam se da vam neće biti zlo tijekom predstavljanja knjige.
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That's my greatestnajveći hopenada.
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To je moja najveća nada.
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So thank you very much.
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Puno vam hvala.
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
Translated by Igor Dobec
Reviewed by Ivona tevanja

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
AJ Jacobs - Author
Immersing himself in alternate lifestyles and long, hilarious experiments (usually with himself the guinea pig), writer AJ Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture, knowledge -- and his wife's sense of humor.

Why you should listen

AJ Jacobs' writings stand at the intersection of philosophy, Gonzo journalism and performance art. Stubbornly curious and slyly perceptive, he takes immersive learning to its irrational and profoundly amusing extreme -- extracting wisdom and meaning after long stints as a self-styled guinea pig. For his widely circulated Esquire article "My Outsourced Life," he explored the phenomenon of outsourcing by hiring a team in Bangalore to take care of every part of his life -- from reading his emails to arguing with his wife to reading bedtime stories to his own son. A previous article, "I Think You're Fat," chronicled a brief, cringe-inducing attempt to live his life in Radical Honesty, telling all the truth, all the time.

Jacobs is author of The Know-It-All, which documents the year he spent reading the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z, uncovering both funny and surprising factoids but also poignant insight into history and human nature. In 2007 he released The Year of Living Biblically, in which he attempted to follow every single rule in the Bible as literally as possible for an entire year. His recent book The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment is a collection of numerous personal experiments. including living according to George Washington's rules of conduct, outsourcing every single task to India, and posing as a woman on an online dating site. 

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