ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Elizabeth Gilbert - Writer
The author of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and hard about some big topics. Her fascinations: genius, creativity and how we get in our own way when it comes to both.

Why you should listen

Elizabeth Gilbert faced down a premidlife crisis by doing what we all secretly dream of -- running off for a year. Her travels through Italy, India and Indonesia resulted in the megabestselling and deeply beloved memoir Eat, Pray, Love, about her process of finding herself by leaving home.

She's a longtime magazine writer -- covering music and politics for Spin and GQ -- as well as a novelist and short-story writer. Her books include the story collection Pilgrims, the novel Stern Men (about lobster fishermen in Maine) and a biography of the woodsman Eustace Conway, called The Last American Man. Her work has been the basis for two movies so far (Coyote Ugly, based on her own tale of working at the famously raunchy bar in New York City), and Eat, Pray, Love, with the part of Gilbert played by Julia Roberts. Not bad for a year off.

In 2010, Elizabeth published Committed, a memoir exploring her ambivalent feelings about the institution of marriage. And her 2013 novel, The Signature of All Things, is "a sprawling tale of 19th century botanical exploration."

Gilbert also owns and runs the import shop Two Buttons in Frenchtown, New Jersey.

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Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius

Elizabeth Gilbert govori o njegovanju kreativnosti

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Spisateljica Elizabeth Gilbert promišlja o nemogućim zahtjevima koje stavljamo pred umjetnike i pritom izlaže radikalnu zamisao da svi mi "imamo" vlastiti genij na raspolaganju - a ne da tek rijetki, izabrani ljudi "jesu" genijalci. Duhovit, duboko osoban i iznenađujuće dirljiv govor.
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The author of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and hard about some big topics. Her fascinations: genius, creativity and how we get in our own way when it comes to both. Full bio

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I am a writerpisac.
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Spisateljica sam.
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WritingPisanje booksknjige is my professionprofesija but it's more than that, of coursenaravno.
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Pisanje knjiga moj je poziv i puno više od toga, naravno.
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It is alsotakođer my great lifelongdoživotan love and fascinationfascinacija.
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Ujedno je velika, doživotna ljubav i strast.
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And I don't expectočekivati that that's ever going to changepromijeniti.
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Ne vjerujem da će se to ikada promijeniti.
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But, that said, something kindljubazan of peculiarosebujan has happeneddogodilo recentlynedavno
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No nedavno se dogodilo nešto neobično
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in my life and in my careerkarijera,
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u mom životu i karijeri,
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whichkoji has causedizazvan me to have to recalibraterekalibracije my wholečitav relationshipodnos with this work.
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zbog čega sam iznova morala procijeniti odnos prema svom radu.
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And the peculiarosebujan thing is that I recentlynedavno wrotenapisao this bookrezervirati,
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Ne tako davno napisala sam knjigu,
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this memoirmemoarima calledzvao "EatJesti, PrayMolite, Love"
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memoare pod naslovom "Jedi, moli, voli".
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whichkoji, decidedlyodlučno unlikeza razliku od any of my previousprijašnji booksknjige,
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Za razliku od svih mojih prijašnjih knjiga
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wentotišao out in the worldsvijet for some reasonrazlog, and becamepostao this bigvelika,
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ova je iz nekog razloga po izlasku postala veliki hit,
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mega-sensationMega-senzacija, internationalmeđunarodna bestsellerbestseler thing.
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mega senzacija i međunarodni bestseler.
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The resultproizlaziti of whichkoji is that everywheresvugdje, posvuda I go now,
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Kamo god sada pođem gledaju me
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people treatliječiti me like I'm doomedproklet.
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kao da sam osuđena na propast.
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SeriouslyOzbiljno -- doomedproklet, doomedproklet!
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Ozbiljno! Kao da mi se sprema slom.
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Like, they come up to me now, all worriedzabrinut, and they say,
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Ljudi mi prilaze vrlo zabrinuti i kažu:
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"Aren'tNisu you afraiduplašen you're never going to be ableu stanju to topvrh that?
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"Zar te nije strah da nećeš to moći nadmašiti?
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Aren'tNisu you afraiduplašen you're going to keep writingpisanje for your wholečitav life
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Ne bojiš li se da ćeš pisati do kraja života
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and you're never again going to createstvoriti a bookrezervirati
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a da nikada više nećeš napisati knjigu
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that anybodyiko in the worldsvijet caresbrige about at all,
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do koje će ljudima biti stalo...
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ever again?"
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ikada... više?"
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So that's reassuringkoji opet uvjerava, you know.
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To je zbilja ohrabrujuće.
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But it would be worsegore, exceptosim for that I happendogoditi se to rememberzapamtiti
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Ali moglo bi biti i gore, jer sjećam se da kada sam
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that over 20 yearsgodina agoprije, when I first startedpočeo tellingreći people -- when I was a teenagertinejdžer --
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prije 20 godina kao tinejdžerica prvi puta pričala
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that I wanted to be a writerpisac,
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da želim biti spisateljica,
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I was metsastali with this sameisti kindljubazan of, sortvrsta of fear-basedstrahu reactionreakcija.
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susretala sam se s istom reakcijom, zasnovanom na strahu.
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And people would say, "Aren'tNisu you afraiduplašen you're never going to have any successuspjeh?
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Znali bi mi reći: "Zar te nije strah da nećeš uspjeti?
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Aren'tNisu you afraiduplašen the humiliationponiženje of rejectionodbacivanje will killubiti you?
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Ne bojiš li se da će te poniženje i odbijanje ubiti?
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Aren'tNisu you afraiduplašen that you're going to work your wholečitav life at this craftčamac
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Ne plašiš li se da ćeš uložiti cijeli svoj život u to umijeće
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and nothing'sNišta nije ever going to come of it
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i da od njega neće biti ništa
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and you're going to dieumrijeti on a scrapotpaci heaphrpa of brokenslomljen dreamssnovi
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pa ćeš umrijeti srca slomljena neostvarenim snovima
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with your mouthusta filledispunjen with bittergorak ashpepeo of failureneuspjeh?"
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i usta punih gorkog pepela neuspjeha?"
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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Like that, you know.
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Tako nešto.
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The answerodgovor -- the shortkratak answerodgovor to all those questionspitanja is, "Yes."
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Kratak odgovor na sva ta pitanja je "Da".
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Yes, I'm afraiduplašen of all those things.
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Da, sve me to plaši.
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And I always have been.
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I oduvijek me plašilo.
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And I'm afraiduplašen of manymnogi, manymnogi more things besidesosim toga
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Bojim se i mnogih drugih stvari
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that people can't even guessnagađati at,
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koje ne možete ni naslutiti,
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like seaweedmorske alge and other things that are scaryplašljiv.
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poput morskih trava i drugih grozota.
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But, when it comesdolazi to writingpisanje,
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Što se tiče pisanja
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the thing that I've been sortvrsta of thinkingmišljenje about latelynedavno, and wonderingpitate about latelynedavno, is why?
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u zadnje vrijeme razmišljam i pitam se - pa zašto?
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You know, is it rationalracionalan?
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Ima li to ikakvog smisla?
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Is it logicallogičan that anybodyiko should be expectedočekuje se
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Je li logično da bi se od bilo koga trebalo očekivati
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to be afraiduplašen of the work that they feel they were put on this EarthZemlja to do.
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da se boji rada za koji osjeća da je stvoren?
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And what is it specificallyposebno about creativekreativan venturesulaganja
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Što nas to u kreativnim poduhvatima tjera
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that seemsčini se to make us really nervousživčani about eachsvaki other'sdrugi mentalmentalni healthzdravlje
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da nervozno propitkujemo svoje i tuđe mentalno zdravlje
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in a way that other careerskarijere kindljubazan of don't do, you know?
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dok ljudi drugih profesija to ne čine?
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Like my dadtata, for exampleprimjer, was a chemicalkemijski engineerinženjer
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Na primjer, moja tata je inženjer kemije.
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and I don't recallpodsjetiti oncejednom in his 40 yearsgodina of chemicalkemijski engineeringinženjering
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Ne sjećam se da ga je itko u njegovih 40 godina karijere
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anybodyiko askingtraži him if he was afraiduplašen to be a chemicalkemijski engineerinženjer, you know?
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upitao boji li se biti inženjerom kemije.
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It didn't -- that chemical-engineeringkemijsko-inženjerstvo blockblok, JohnJohn, how'skako je it going?
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Ta strašna kemičarska blokada... pa, John, kako ti ide?
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It just didn't come up like that, you know?
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Toga jednostavno nema.
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But to be fairfer, chemicalkemijski engineersinženjeri as a groupskupina
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Ali, ako ćemo pravo, inženjeri kemije
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haven'tnisu really earnedzarađen a reputationugled over the centuriesstoljeća
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nisu tijekom stoljeća zaradili reputaciju
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for beingbiće alcoholicalkoholičar manic-depressivesdepresija.
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maničnih depresivaca i alkoholičara.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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We writerspisci, we kindljubazan of do have that reputationugled,
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Nas pisce bije taj glas.
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and not just writerspisci, but creativekreativan people acrosspreko all genresžanrovi,
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Ne samo pisce, već kreativce općenito.
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it seemsčini se, have this reputationugled for beingbiće enormouslyogromno mentallymentalno unstablenestabilan.
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Čini se da nas gledaju kao mentalno izrazito nestabilne.
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And all you have to do is look at the very grimmrgodan deathsmrt countračunati
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Pogledajte samo tu tužnu statistiku
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in the 20thth centurystoljeće alonesam, of really magnificentveličanstven creativekreativan mindsmisli
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dvadesetog stoljeća. Koliko je izvanrednih kreativnih umova
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who diedumro youngmladi and oftenčesto at theirnjihov ownvlastiti handsruke, you know?
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umrlo prerano, često i od svoje ruke.
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And even the onesone who didn't literallydoslovce commitpočiniti suicidesamoubistvo
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Čak i one koji nisu doslovno počinili samoubojstvo
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seemčiniti se to be really undoneponištiti by theirnjihov giftspokloni, you know.
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kao da je dotukao vlastiti dar.
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NormanNorman MailerPredati na poštu, just before he diedumro, last interviewintervju, he said
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Norman Mailer, u svom posljednjem intervjuu, tik prije smrti, rekao je:
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"EverySvaki one of my booksknjige has killedubijen me a little more."
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"Svaka moja nova knjiga pomalo me ubila."
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An extraordinaryizvanredan statementizjava to make about your life'sživot je work.
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Kakva nevjerojatna izjava! Tako se izraziti o svom životnom djelu...
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But we don't even blinktreptati when we hearčuti somebodyneko say this
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No, čak ni ne trepnemo kad čujemo takvu izjavu
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because we'veimamo heardčuo that kindljubazan of stuffstvari for so long
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jer smo toliko često čuli,
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and somehownekako we'veimamo completelypotpuno internalizedInternalizirani and acceptedpriznat collectivelykolektivno
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u potpunosti usvojili i kolektivno prihvatili ideju
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this notionpojam that creativitykreativnost and sufferingpati are somehownekako inherentlyinherentno linkedpovezan
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da su kreativnost i patnja nerazdvojno povezani
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and that artistryumjetnost, in the endkraj, will always ultimatelyna kraju leaddovesti to anguishtjeskobe.
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i da će nas umjetnički put nedvojbeno dovesti do stradanja i propasti.
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And the questionpitanje that I want to askpitati everybodysvi here todaydanas
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Pitanje koje danas svima vama želim postaviti
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is are you guys all coolsvjež with that ideaideja?
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jest... je li vama to stvarno prihvatljiva ideja?
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Are you comfortableudobno with that?
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Je li vam to skroz u redu?
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Because you look at it even from an inchpalac away and, you know ...
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Jer kad se makar malo odmaknete od nje...
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I'm not at all comfortableudobno with that assumptionpretpostavka.
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Ja uopće nisam zadovoljna tom pretpostavkom.
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I think it's odiousodvratan.
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Ja mislim da je grozna!
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And I alsotakođer think it's dangerousopasno,
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I još k tome opasna.
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and I don't want to see it perpetuatedovjekovječio into the nextSljedeći centurystoljeće.
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Ne želim da se ponavlja i u narednom stoljeću.
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I think it's better if we encourageohrabriti our great creativekreativan mindsmisli to liveživjeti.
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Mislim da je bolje izvanredne, kreativne umove ohrabrivati da žive.
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And I definitelydefinitivno know that, in my casespis -- in my situationsituacija --
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Sa sigurnošću mogu reći, u mojoj bi situaciji
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it would be very dangerousopasno for me to startpočetak sortvrsta of leakingcuri down that darkmrak pathstaza
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bilo vrlo opasno da krenem padati niz mračnu stazu
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of assumptionpretpostavka, particularlynaročito givendan the circumstanceokolnost
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te pretpostavke, osobito u ovom razdoblju
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that I'm in right now in my careerkarijera.
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moje karijere.
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WhichKoji is -- you know, like checkprovjeriti it out,
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Pogledajte me...
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I'm prettyprilično youngmladi, I'm only about 40 yearsgodina oldstar.
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još sam prilično mlada, tek mi je četrdesetak.
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I still have maybe anotherjoš fourčetiri decadesdesetljeća of work left in me.
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Predamnom je možda još 4 desetljeća rada.
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And it's exceedinglyiznimno likelyVjerojatno that anything I writepisati from this pointtočka forwardnaprijed
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I vrlo je vjerojatno da će što god da napišem, od ovog trenutka na dalje,
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is going to be judgedsudi by the worldsvijet as the work that camedošao after
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biti ocijenjeno kao djelo nastalo nakon
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the freakishhirovit successuspjeh of my last bookrezervirati, right?
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zastrašujućeg uspjeha moje prošle knjige.
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I should just put it bluntlyotvoreno, because we're all sortvrsta of friendsprijatelji here now --
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Reći ću to izravno, jer smo svi ovdje više-manje prijatelji,
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it's exceedinglyiznimno likelyVjerojatno that my greatestnajveći successuspjeh is behindiza me.
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prilično je vjerojatno da je moj najveći uspjeh iza mene.
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So JesusIsus, what a thought!
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Zaboga, kakva pomisao!
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That's the kindljubazan of thought that could leaddovesti a personosoba
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To je baš ona vrsta misli koja vas može dovesti do toga
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to startpočetak drinkingpiće ginDžin at ninedevet o'clocksati in the morningjutro,
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da počnete piti džin u devet sati ujutro.
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and I don't want to go there.
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A ja ne bih tim putem.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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I would preferradije to keep doing this work that I love.
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Radije bih nastavila s poslom koji volim.
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And so, the questionpitanje becomespostaje, how?
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Što dovodi do pitanja - kako?
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And so, it seemsčini se to me, uponna a lot of reflectionodraz,
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Nakon mnogo razmišljanja, čini mi se da
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that the way that I have to work now, in ordernarudžba to continuenastaviti writingpisanje,
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kako bih nastavila pisati
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is that I have to createstvoriti some sortvrsta of protectivezaštitni psychologicalpsihološki constructizgraditi, right?
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moram osmisliti neku vrstu psihološke zaštite.
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I have to sortvrsta of find some way to have a safesef distanceudaljenost
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Pronaći neku vrstu distance koja će me štititi
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betweenizmeđu me, as I am writingpisanje, and my very naturalprirodni anxietyanksioznost
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i koju ću, dok pišem, postaviti između mene i moje prirodne tjeskobe
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about what the reactionreakcija to that writingpisanje is going to be, from now on.
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koja brine o reakciji na moj budući rad.
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And, as I've been looking over the last yeargodina for modelsmodeli for how to do that
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Prošle sam godine tražila uzore prema kojima bih to učinila.
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I've been sortvrsta of looking acrosspreko time,
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Kao da sam pretraživala povijest
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and I've been tryingtežak to find other societiesdruštva
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i pokušavala pronaći drukčija društva
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to see if they mightmoć have had better and sanerzdravijem ideasideje than we have
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koja su možda imala bolje i zdravije zamisli od onih koje mi imamo
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about how to help creativekreativan people, sortvrsta of manageupravljati
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o tome kako pomoći kreativcima da se nose
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the inherentinherentan emotionalemotivan risksrizici of creativitykreativnost.
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s neizbježnim emotivnim rizicima kreativnosti.
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And that searchtraži has led me to ancientantički GreeceGrčka and ancientantički RomeRome.
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Potraga me dovela u antičko doba: u Grčku i Rim.
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So stayboravak with me, because it does circlekrug around and back.
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Pratite me, jer priča ide u širinu i napravit će puni krug.
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But, ancientantički GreeceGrčka and ancientantički RomeRome --
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Dakle... u antičko doba
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people did not happendogoditi se to believe that creativitykreativnost
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ljudi nisu vjerovali da kreativnost
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camedošao from humanljudski beingsbića back then, O.K.?
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dolazi od ljudskih bića.
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People believedvjerovao that creativitykreativnost was this divinebožanske attendantpolaznik spiritduh
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Vjerovali su da je kreativnost božanski, zaštitnički duh
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that camedošao to humanljudski beingsbića from some distantudaljen and unknowabledostizati sourceizvor,
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koji je ljudskom biću prišao iz dalekog i nespoznatljivog izvorišta,
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for distantudaljen and unknowabledostizati reasonsrazlozi.
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zbog dalekih i nespoznatljivih razloga.
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The GreeksGrci famouslyslavno calledzvao these divinebožanske attendantpolaznik spiritsduhovi of creativitykreativnost "daemons"demoni"."
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Stari Grci ta su božanska bića, zaštitnike kreativnosti nazivali "demonima".
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SocratesSokrat, famouslyslavno, believedvjerovao that he had a daemondemon
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Sokrat je bio poznat po tome što je vjerovao da ima demona
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who spokegovorio wisdommudrost to him from afarizdaleka.
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koji mu je šaptao mudrost u uho iz daljina.
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The RomansRimljani had the sameisti ideaideja,
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Stari Rimljani dijelili su istu ideju,
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but they calledzvao that sortvrsta of disembodiedbestjelesan creativekreativan spiritduh a geniusgenije.
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no oni su te bestjelesne duhove kreativnosti nazivali "genijima".
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WhichKoji is great, because the RomansRimljani did not actuallyzapravo think
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To je odličan primjer, jer Rimljani zapravo nisu vjerovali
06:57
that a geniusgenije was a particularlynaročito cleverpametan individualpojedinac.
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da je genij neka osobito pametna osoba.
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They believedvjerovao that a geniusgenije was this, sortvrsta of magicalčaroban divinebožanske entityentitet,
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Vjerovali su da je genij neko magično božansko biće
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who was believedvjerovao to literallydoslovce liveživjeti in the wallszidovi
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koje doslovno živi u zidovima
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of an artist'sumjetnika studiostudio, kindljubazan of like DobbyDobi the housekuća elfpatuljak,
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umjetnikovog studija, poput kućnog vilenjaka,
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and who would come out and sortvrsta of invisiblynevidljivo assistpomoći the artistumjetnik with theirnjihov work
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koje izlazi van, nevidljivo pomaže umjetniku pri poslu
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and would shapeoblik the outcomeishod of that work.
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i tako oblikuje krajnji ishod djela.
07:18
So brilliantsjajan -- there it is, right there, that distanceudaljenost that I'm talkingkoji govori about --
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I eto, odlično! To je upravo ta distanca o kojoj govorim,
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that psychologicalpsihološki constructizgraditi to protectzaštititi you from the resultsrezultati of your work.
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ta psihološka barijera koja nas štiti od rezultata našeg rada.
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And everyonesvatko knewznao that this is how it functionedfunkcionirao, right?
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I svi su znali da to tako funkcionira.
07:29
So the ancientantički artistumjetnik was protectedzaštićeni from certainsiguran things,
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Pa je antički umjetnik bio zaštićen od,
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like, for exampleprimjer, too much narcissismnarcizam, right?
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primjerice, previše narcizma.
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If your work was brilliantsjajan you couldn'tne mogu take all the creditKreditna for it,
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Ako bi tvoje djelo bilo izvrsno, ne bi mogao sve zasluge pripisati sebi.
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everybodysvi knewznao that you had this disembodiedbestjelesan geniusgenije who had helpedpomogao you.
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Svi su znali da imaš bestjelesnog genija koji ti je pomagao.
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If your work bombedbombardirali, not entirelypotpuno your faultgreška, you know?
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A ako ti je djelo bilo bez veze to nije bila samo tvoja greška.
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EveryoneSvi knewznao your geniusgenije was kindljubazan of lamejadan.
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Svi su znali da je tvoj genij ispao bezveznjak.
07:48
And this is how people thought about creativitykreativnost in the WestZapad for a really long time.
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Dugo su vremena i ljudi Zapada o kreativnosti promišljali na taj način.
07:53
And then the RenaissanceRenesanse camedošao and everything changedpromijenjen,
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Onda je stigla renesansa i sve se promijenilo.
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and we had this bigvelika ideaideja, and the bigvelika ideaideja was
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Dobili smo veliku ideju. A ona glasi:
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let's put the individualpojedinac humanljudski beingbiće at the centercentar of the universesvemir
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"Haj'mo staviti ljudsku osobu u središte svemira,
08:01
aboveiznad all godsbogovi and mysteriestajne, and there's no more roomsoba
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ponad svih bogova i misterija". Pa više nije bilo mjesta
08:03
for mysticalmistično creaturesstvorenja who take dictationdiktiranje from the divinebožanske.
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za mistična bića koja prenose božanski diktat.
08:06
And it's the beginningpočetak of rationalracionalan humanismhumanizam,
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Bio je to početak racionalizma
08:09
and people startedpočeo to believe that creativitykreativnost
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i ljudi su počeli vjerovati da kreativnost
08:11
camedošao completelypotpuno from the selfsam of the individualpojedinac.
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u potpunosti proizlazi iz osobnosti ljudskog bića.
08:13
And for the first time in historypovijest,
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Po prvi puta u pisanoj povijesti
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you startpočetak to hearčuti people referringkoji se odnosi to this or that artistumjetnik as beingbiće a geniusgenije
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mogli ste čuti da o se nekom umjetniku govori kao da jest genij,
08:21
ratherradije than havingima a geniusgenije.
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umjesto da neki umjetnik ima genija uza sebe.
08:22
And I got to tell you, I think that was a hugeogroman errorgreška.
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Iskreno, mislim da je to bila velika greška.
08:26
You know, I think that allowingomogućujući somebodyneko, one merepuki personosoba
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Dopustiti nekome, jednoj običnoj osobi
08:30
to believe that he or she is like, the vesselBrod,
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da vjeruje da je posuda,
08:33
you know, like the fontfonta and the essencesuština and the sourceizvor
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i izvorište, i srž, i izvor sveprisutne
08:35
of all divinebožanske, creativekreativan, unknowabledostizati, eternalvječni mysterymisterija
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božanske, stvaralačke, nespoznatljive, vječne misterije...
08:39
is just a smidgekomadić too much responsibilityodgovornost to put on one fragilelomljiv, humanljudski psychepsiha.
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To kao da je mrvicu prevelika odgovornost za krhku ljudsku psihu.
08:45
It's like askingtraži somebodyneko to swallowgutljaj the sunsunce.
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Otprilike kao da nekoga tražite da proguta sunce.
08:48
It just completelypotpuno warpswarps and distortsiskrivljuje egosego,
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To sasvim iskrivljuje i izobličuje ego
08:51
and it createsstvara all these unmanageableneukrotiva expectationsočekivanja about performanceizvođenje.
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i stvara sva ta nebulozna očekivanja rezultata.
08:55
And I think the pressurepritisak of that
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Smatram da je taj strašan pritisak
08:57
has been killingubijanje off our artistsizvođači for the last 500 yearsgodina.
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ubijao naše umjetnike posljednih 500 godina.
09:00
And, if this is truepravi,
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Ako je to točno,
09:02
and I think it is truepravi,
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a ja mislim da jest,
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the questionpitanje becomespostaje, what now?
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postavlja se pitanje - što sad?
09:07
Can we do this differentlyrazličito?
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Možemo li što promijeniti?
09:09
Maybe go back to some more ancientantički understandingrazumijevanje
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Možda bismo se mogli vratiti drevnom shvaćanju
09:12
about the relationshipodnos betweenizmeđu humansljudi and the creativekreativan mysterymisterija.
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odnosa između ljudskih bića i stvaralačke misterije.
09:17
Maybe not.
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A možda i ne.
09:18
Maybe we can't just erasebrisati 500 yearsgodina of rationalracionalan humanistichumanističkih thought
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Možda ne možemo obrisati 500 godina racionalističke filozofije
09:22
in one 18 minuteminuta speechgovor.
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u jednom 18-minutnom govoru.
09:24
And there's probablyvjerojatno people in this audiencepublika
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U publici se zasigurno nalaze ljudi
09:27
who would raisepodići really legitimatelegitiman scientificznanstvena suspicionssumnje
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koji će, znanstveno sasvim legitimno,
09:31
about the notionpojam of, basicallyu osnovi fairiesvile
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podići obrvu na spomen vila i vilenjaka
09:33
who followslijediti people around rubbingtrljanje fairyvila juicesok on theirnjihov projectsprojekti and stuffstvari.
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koji naokolo slijede ljude posipajući im čarobni prah po projektima.
09:38
I'm not, probablyvjerojatno, going to bringdonijeti you all alonguz with me on this.
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Najvjerojatnije neću uspjeti baš sve vas zainteresirati za tu ideju.
09:43
But the questionpitanje that I kindljubazan of want to posepoza is --
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No, pitanje koje bih rado postavila je...
09:45
you know, why not?
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Zašto da ne?
09:48
Why not think about it this way?
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Zašto ne bismo o tome razmišljali na taj način?
09:49
Because it makesmarke as much senseosjećaj as anything elsedrugo I have ever heardčuo
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Jer ima jednako smisla kao i sva ostala objašnjenja koja sam čula
09:54
in termsUvjeti of explainingobjašnjavajući the utterizreći maddeningjako uzbudljiv capriciousnesshirovitost
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za krajnje izluđujuću hirovitost
09:58
of the creativekreativan processpostupak.
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kreativnog procesa.
09:59
A processpostupak whichkoji, as anybodyiko who has ever triedpokušala to make something --
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Procesa koji se, kao što znaju svi koji su probali nešto stvoriti
10:02
whichkoji is to say basicallyu osnovi everyonesvatko here ---
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- a rekla bih da su to svi ovdje prisutni -
10:04
knowszna does not always behaveponašati rationallyracionalno.
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ne ponaša uvijek predvidljivo i racionalno.
10:07
And, in factčinjenica, can sometimesponekad feel downrightStvarno paranormalparanormalno.
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Ponekad je to skoro pa paranormalno iskustvo.
10:12
I had this encountersusret recentlynedavno where I metsastali the extraordinaryizvanredan AmericanAmerički poetpjesnik RuthRuth StoneKamena,
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Nedavno sam imala priliku sresti izvanrednu američku pjesnikinju Ruth Stone.
10:18
who'stko je now in her 90s, but she's been a poetpjesnik her entirečitav life
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Ušla je u devedesete i cijeloga je života pjesnikinja.
10:20
and she told me that when she was growingrastući up in ruralruralna VirginiaVirginia,
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Ispričala mi je kako je odrastajući u ruralnom dijelu Virginije
10:24
she would be out workingrad in the fieldspolja,
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često radila u polju.
10:25
and she said she would feel and hearčuti a poempjesma
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Osjetila bi i čula pjesmu
10:28
comingdolazak at her from over the landscapepejzaž.
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kako joj dolazi u susret s druge strane horizonta.
10:30
And she said it was like a thunderousburnim trainvlak of airzrak.
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Kaže da je to bilo poput gromkog zračnog vala
10:34
And it would come barrelingbarreling down at her over the landscapepejzaž.
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koji bi se stuštio preko polja prema njoj.
10:36
And she feltosjećala it comingdolazak, because it would shaketresti the earthZemlja underpod her feetnoge.
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Po podrhtavanju tla znala je da pjesma stiže.
10:39
She knewznao that she had only one thing to do at that pointtočka,
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Znala je da u takvim trenucima jedino što može jest,
10:43
and that was to, in her wordsriječi, "runtrčanje like hellpakao."
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prema njenim riječima, "pojuriti kao da ju vrag goni".
10:45
And she would runtrčanje like hellpakao to the housekuća
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I tako bi mahnito trčala prema kući
10:46
and she would be gettinguzimajući chasedotjerao by this poempjesma,
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dok ju je pjesma gonila
10:48
and the wholečitav dealdogovor was that she had to get to a piecekomad of paperpapir and a pencilolovka
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jer valjalo je zgrabiti papir i olovku dovoljno brzo
10:51
fastbrzo enoughdovoljno so that when it thunderedgrmio throughkroz her, she could collectprikupiti it
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da stigne uhvatiti pjesmu dok tutnji kroz nju,
10:54
and grabzgrabiti it on the pagestranica.
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da bi je prenijela na papir.
10:56
And other timesputa she wouldn'tne bi be fastbrzo enoughdovoljno,
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Znalo se događati da ne uspije trčati dovoljno brzo
10:58
so she'dBila be runningtrčanje and runningtrčanje and runningtrčanje, and she wouldn'tne bi get to the housekuća
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iako je davala sve od sebe jureći niz polja. Kad ne bi stigla na vrijeme do kuće,
11:01
and the poempjesma would barrelbarel throughkroz her and she would misspropustiti it
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pjesma bi samo projurila kroz nju, neuhvaćena.
11:04
and she said it would continuenastaviti on acrosspreko the landscapepejzaž,
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Tada bi se nastavila kotrljati niz polja
11:06
looking, as she put it "for anotherjoš poetpjesnik."
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tražeći, kako Ruth kaže, "nekog drugog pjesnika".
11:09
And then there were these timesputa --
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A ponekad bi
11:12
this is the piecekomad I never forgotzaboravio --
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- ovaj dio priče neću nikada zaboraviti -
11:14
she said that there were momentstrenutke where she would almostskoro misspropustiti it, right?
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ponekad bi se dogodilo da ju skoro ne uhvati.
11:17
So, she's runningtrčanje to the housekuća and she's looking for the paperpapir
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Dok bi trčala kući, tražeći komad papira
11:20
and the poempjesma passesprolazi throughkroz her,
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a pjesma bi kroz nju tutnjala,
11:22
and she grabsZgrabi a pencilolovka just as it's going throughkroz her,
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ugrabila bi olovku baš u trenutku kad bi pjesma kroz nju prošla
11:25
and then she said, it was like she would reachdohvatiti out with her other handruka
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i ona bi pružila drugu ruku i posegnula za njom
11:27
and she would catchulov it.
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da ju uhvati.
11:29
She would catchulov the poempjesma by its tailrep,
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Tako bi uhvatila pjesmu za rep
11:31
and she would pullVuci it backwardsunazad into her bodytijelo
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i povukla je natraške u svoje tijelo
11:34
as she was transcribingprepisivanje on the pagestranica.
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dok bi ju zapisivala na stranicu.
11:36
And in these instancesslučajevi, the poempjesma would come up on the pagestranica perfectsavršen and intactnetaknut
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U tim slučajevima, pjesma bi se pojavila na papiru, savršena i neoštećena
11:41
but backwardsunazad, from the last wordriječ to the first.
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no zapisana natraške, od posljednje riječi prema prvoj.
11:44
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
11:46
So when I heardčuo that I was like -- that's uncannynevjerojatna,
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Kad sam to čula... ma nevjerojatno!
11:50
that's exactlytočno what my creativekreativan processpostupak is like.
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Baš tako izgleda i moj kreativni proces.
11:53
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
11:57
That's not at all what my creativekreativan processpostupak is -- I'm not the pipelinecjevovod!
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Ma ne. Moje stvaralaštvo nije takvo - ja nisam cjevovod!
12:00
I'm a mulemula, and the way that I have to work
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Ja sam mazga. Moj način rada zahtijeva
12:01
is that I have to get up at the sameisti time everysvaki day,
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da ustajem u isto vrijeme svako jutro
12:03
and sweatznoj and laborrad and barrelbarel throughkroz it really awkwardlynespretno.
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znojim se i napinjem i probijam se na kojekakve nezgodne načine.
12:06
But even I, in my mulishnessmulishness,
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No, pa čak i ja, u svojoj mazgovitosti,
12:09
even I have brushedČetka up againstprotiv that thing, at timesputa.
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čak sam i ja to dotakla, ponekad.
12:13
And I would imaginezamisliti that a lot of you have too.
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Vjerujem da ste i vi to iskusili.
12:15
You know, even I have had work or ideasideje come throughkroz me from a sourceizvor
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Čak su i meni djela i ideje stizale s izvora
12:18
that I honestlypošteno cannotNe možete identifyidentificirati.
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kojeg, iskreno, ne mogu razabrati.
12:21
And what is that thing?
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Što je to?
12:22
And how are we to relatepovezati to it in a way that will not make us loseizgubiti our mindsmisli,
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I kako se prema tome možemo odnositi tako da ne izgubimo razum,
12:26
but, in factčinjenica, mightmoć actuallyzapravo keep us sanezdrav?
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već, dapače, da nam pomogne kako bismo ostali bistre glave?
12:29
And for me, the bestnajbolje contemporarysuvremeni exampleprimjer that I have of how to do that
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Najbolji suvremeni primjer na kojeg sam naišla
12:33
is the musicianglazbenik TomTom WaitsČeka,
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je glazbenik Tom Waits.
12:35
who I got to interviewintervju severalnekoliko yearsgodina agoprije on a magazinečasopis assignmentzadatak.
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Intervjuirala sam ga prije nekoliko godina za jedan časopis.
12:40
And we were talkingkoji govori about this,
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I tako smo razgovarali o tome, a znate da je
12:41
and you know, TomTom, for mostnajviše of his life he was prettyprilično much the embodimentutjelovljenje
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Tom cijeloga života bio pravo utjelovljenje
12:45
of the tormentedmuči contemporarysuvremeni modernmoderan artistumjetnik,
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izmučenog suvremenog umjetnika
12:47
tryingtežak to controlkontrolirati and manageupravljati and dominatedominirati
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koji pokušava upravljati, kontrolirati i dominirati
12:50
these sortvrsta of uncontrollablenekontrolirani creativekreativan impulsesimpulse
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tim neukrotivim kreativnim impulsima
12:52
that were totallypotpuno internalizedInternalizirani.
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koji su mu potpuno iznutra.
12:54
But then he got olderstariji, he got calmermirnija,
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S vremenom, s godinama, postajao je sve smireniji
12:56
and one day he was drivingvožnja down the freewayAutocesta in LosLos AngelesAngeles he told me,
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i jednog dana vozio je auto cestom kroz Los Angeles, kaže,
12:59
and this is when it all changedpromijenjen for him.
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i tada se sve promijenilo.
13:01
And he's speedingprebrze vožnje alonguz, and all of a suddennaglo
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Dok je stiskao gas, iznenada
13:03
he hearsčuje this little fragmentulomak of melodymelodija,
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začuje djelić melodije koja mu se pojavila u umu,
13:06
that comesdolazi into his headglava as inspirationinspiracija oftenčesto comesdolazi, elusivenedostižan and tantalizingtantalizing,
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kako to inspiracija često dođe, nedostižna i nadražujuća
13:10
and he wants it, you know, it's gorgeoussjajan,
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i on ju želi, predivna je,
13:13
and he longsčezne for it, but he has no way to get it.
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čezne za njom, ali nema je kako uhvatiti.
13:15
He doesn't have a piecekomad of paperpapir, he doesn't have a pencilolovka,
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Nema komad papira, nema olovku,
13:17
he doesn't have a tapetraka recordersnimač.
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nema diktafon.
13:18
So he startspočinje to feel all of that oldstar anxietyanksioznost startpočetak to riseustati in him
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Osjeti kako ga preplavljuje dobro mu poznata tjeskoba
13:21
like, "I'm going to loseizgubiti this thing,
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nešto u stilu: "Dođavola, izgubit ću ju
13:23
and then I'm going to be hauntedukleta by this songpjesma foreverzauvijek.
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i onda će me ta pjesma zauvijek progoniti.
13:25
I'm not good enoughdovoljno, and I can't do it."
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I sve drugo što napišem, neće biti dovoljno dobro."
13:27
And insteadumjesto of panickingu panici, he just stoppedprestao.
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Umjesto da se prepusti navali panike, zaustavio se.
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He just stoppedprestao that wholečitav mentalmentalni processpostupak
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Prekinuo je cijeli taj mentalni slijed u svojoj glavi
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and he did something completelypotpuno novelroman.
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i napravio nešto sasvim drugačije. Nešto novo.
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He just lookedgledao up at the skynebo, and he said,
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Pogledao je prema nebu i rekao:
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"ExcuseIzgovor me, can you not see that I'm drivingvožnja?"
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"Oprosti, zar ne vidiš da vozim?"
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
13:42
"Do I look like I can writepisati down a songpjesma right now?
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"Da li ti izgledam kao da sad mogu zapisati melodiju?
13:45
If you really want to existpostojati, come back at a more opportunepogodnom momenttrenutak
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Ako doista želiš postojati, vrati se u nekom prikladnijem trenutku
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when I can take carebriga of you.
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kad se mogu pobrinuti za tebe.
13:51
OtherwiseInače, go bothersmeta somebodyneko elsedrugo todaydanas.
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Ako baš moraš danas, odi gnjaviti nekog drugog.
13:54
Go bothersmeta LeonardLeonard CohenCohen."
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Idi gnjavi... Leonarda Cohena."
13:57
And his wholečitav work processpostupak changedpromijenjen after that.
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Nakon tog događaja njegov se kreativni proces promijenio.
14:00
Not the work, the work was still oftentimesčesto as darkmrak as ever.
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Ne njegov rad, djela su mu često mračna kao i inače,
14:04
But the processpostupak, and the heavyteško anxietyanksioznost around it
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već kreativni proces. Grozna tjeskoba koja ga je pratila
14:07
was releasedoslobođen when he tookuzeo the genieduh, the geniusgenije out of him
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nestala je kada je duh genija izvadio iz samog sebe,
14:10
where it was causinguzrok nothing but troublenevolja, and releasedoslobođen it kindljubazan of back where it camedošao from,
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gdje je samo stvarao probleme, i vratio ga tamo odakle je stigao
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and realizedshvatio that this didn't have to be this internalizedInternalizirani, tormentedmuči thing.
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shvativši da stvaralaštvo ne mora biti unutarnji, mučenički proces.
14:17
It could be this peculiarosebujan, wondrousČudesni, bizarrebizarno collaborationkolaboracija
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Zašto ne bi radije bilo čudnovata, čudesna, neuobičajena suradnja?
14:20
kindljubazan of conversationrazgovor betweenizmeđu TomTom and the strangečudan, externalvanjski thing
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Neka vrsta razgovora između Toma i nepoznate, izvanjske sile
14:25
that was not quitedosta TomTom.
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koja nije u potpunosti Tom.
14:27
So when I heardčuo that storypriča it startedpočeo to shiftsmjena a little bitbit
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Kad sam čula tu priču, i sama sam napravila pomak
14:30
the way that I workedradio too, and it alreadyveć savedspremaju me oncejednom.
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u načinu na koji sam stvarala i to me već jednom spasilo.
14:32
This ideaideja, it savedspremaju me when I was in the middlesrednji of writingpisanje "EatJesti, PrayMolite, Love,"
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Ta zamisao me spasila usred pisanja "Jedi, moli, voli".
14:36
and I fellpao into one of those, sortvrsta of pitsjame of despairočajavati
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Pala sam u jednu od onih provalija očajanja
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that we all fallpad into when we're workingrad on something and it's not comingdolazak
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u koji svi upadamo kad radimo na nečemu, a nikako da nam krene
14:42
and you startpočetak to think this is going to be a disasterkatastrofa,
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pa počnemo misliti: "To će biti prava katastrofa."
14:44
this is going to be the worstnajgori bookrezervirati ever writtennapisan.
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Najgora knjiga ikad napisana.
14:46
Not just badloše, but the worstnajgori bookrezervirati ever writtennapisan.
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Ne samo loša, već najgora knjiga svih vremena!
14:48
And I startedpočeo to think I should just dumpistovariti this projectprojekt.
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Kad sam počela razmišljati trebam li odustati,
14:52
But then I rememberedsjetio TomTom talkingkoji govori to the openotvoren airzrak
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sjetila sam se Toma kako priča zraku
14:55
and I triedpokušala it.
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i odlučila pokušati isto.
14:57
So I just liftedpodiže my facelice up from the manuscriptrukopis
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Podigla sam pogled s rukopisa
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and I directedusmjerene my commentskomentari to an emptyprazan cornerugao of the roomsoba.
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i izravno se obratila praznom kutu sobe.
15:02
And I said aloudnaglas, "Listen you, thing,
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Rekla sam na glas: "Slušaj ti... nešto,
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you and I bothoba know that if this bookrezervirati isn't brilliantsjajan
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ti i ja vrlo dobro znamo da ukoliko knjiga ne ispadne sjajno
15:09
that is not entirelypotpuno my faultgreška, right?
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to neće biti sasvim moja greška.
15:11
Because you can see that I am puttingstavljanje everything I have into this,
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I sam možeš vidjeti da dajem sve od sebe.
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I don't have any more than this.
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Više od toga nemam.
15:15
So if you want it to be better, then you've got to showpokazati up and do your partdio of the dealdogovor.
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Pa ako želiš da knjiga bude bolja, izvoli se pojaviti i napraviti svoj dio posla.
15:19
O.K. But if you don't do that, you know what, the hellpakao with it.
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U redu? Ali ako nećeš, nema veze.
15:22
I'm going to keep writingpisanje anywayu svakom slučaju because that's my jobposao.
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Ja ću nastaviti pisati jer to je moj posao.
15:25
And I would please like the recordsnimiti to reflectodraziti todaydanas
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I molim neka uđe u zapisnik da sam se danas
15:26
that I showedpokazala up for my partdio of the jobposao."
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uredno pojavila i odradila svoj dio.
15:29
(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
15:32
Because --
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Jer...
15:35
(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
15:37
in the endkraj it's like this, O.K. --
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na kraju krajeva, to je ovako...
15:39
centuriesstoljeća agoprije in the desertspustinja of NorthSjever AfricaAfrika,
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Prije nekoliko stoljeća, u pustinjama sjeverne Afrike
15:41
people used to gatherokupiti for these moonlightmjesečina dancesplesovi of sacredsvet danceples and musicglazba
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ljudi su se okupljali i plesali svete plesove pod mjesečinom
15:46
that would go on for hourssati and hourssati, untildo dawnzora.
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plesali su satima i satima, sve do zore.
15:49
And they were always magnificentveličanstven, because the dancersplesači were professionalsprofesionalci
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Uvijek su bili prekrasni! Plesači su bili profesionalci.
15:52
and they were terrificSjajno, right?
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Plesali su izvanredno.
15:53
But everysvaki oncejednom in a while, very rarelyrijetko, something would happendogoditi se,
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Tu i tamo, ne baš često, dogodilo bi se nešto neobično
15:57
and one of these performersIzvođači would actuallyzapravo becomepostati transcendentnadilaze.
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i jedan od izvođača nadišao bi sebe.
16:00
And I know you know what I'm talkingkoji govori about,
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Znate o čemu govorim, jer svi ste
16:02
because I know you've all seenvidio, at some pointtočka in your life, a performanceizvođenje like this.
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u nekom trenutku svog života vidjeli takvu izvedbu.
16:06
It was like time would stop,
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Vrijeme kao da stane
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and the dancerplesač would sortvrsta of stepkorak throughkroz some kindljubazan of portalPortal
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a plesač kao da zakorači kroz neki tajni prolaz
16:11
and he wasn'tnije doing anything differentdrugačiji than he had ever doneučinio, 1,000 nightsnoću before,
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i čini sve isto kao što je činio već tisuću puta prije
16:15
but everything would alignPoravnajte.
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no, sada se sve povezalo.
16:17
And all of a suddennaglo, he would no longerviše appearpojaviti to be merelysamo humanljudski.
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I najednom, skoro pa da ne izgleda kao čovjek.
16:20
He would be litlit from withinunutar, and litlit from belowispod
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Kao da iz njega zrači svjetlost, iznutra i izvana.
16:23
and all litlit up on firevatra with divinitybožanstvo.
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Obasjan je svjetlošću božanskoga.
16:26
And when this happeneddogodilo, back then,
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Kada bi se to dogodilo, u ono drevno vrijeme
16:29
people knewznao it for what it was, you know, they calledzvao it by its nameime.
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ljudi su znali što se zbiva. Imali su ime za to.
16:33
They would put theirnjihov handsruke togetherzajedno and they would startpočetak to chantpjevati,
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Spojili bi ruke i počeli zazivati:
16:35
"AllahAllah, AllahAllah, AllahAllah, God, God, God."
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"Allah, Allah, Allah! Bog, Bog, Bog!"
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That's God, you know.
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To je Bog!
16:43
CuriousZnatiželjan historicalpovijesni footnotefusnote --
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Zanimljiva povijesna fusnota...
16:45
when the MoorsMaura invadednapali southernjužni SpainŠpanjolska, they tookuzeo this customprilagođene with them
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kad su Mauri okupirali južnu Španjolsku, donijeli su sa sobom i taj običaj.
16:50
and the pronunciationizgovor changedpromijenjen over the centuriesstoljeća
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Izgovor se tijekom stoljeća promijenio
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from "AllahAllah, AllahAllah, AllahAllah," to "OlOlé, ololé, ololé,"
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iz :"Allah, Allah, Allah!" u "Olé, Olé, Olé!", što i danas
16:55
whichkoji you still hearčuti in bullfightsborbe s bikovima and in flamencoflamenco dancesplesovi.
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čujete na borbama bikova i pri plesanju flamenka.
16:58
In SpainŠpanjolska, when a performerIzvođač has doneučinio something impossiblenemoguće and magicmagija,
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U Španjolskoj, kad izvođač napravi nešto nemoguće i čudesno, čuje se
17:02
"AllahAllah, ololé, ololé, AllahAllah, magnificentveličanstven, bravoBravo,"
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"Allah, Olé, Olé, Allah, veličanstveno, bravo,
17:05
incomprehensibleneshvatljivo, there it is -- a glimpsesvjetlucanje of God.
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nespoznatljivo, evo ga - tračak samog Boga."
17:09
WhichKoji is great, because we need that.
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To je predivno. Svima nam to treba.
17:11
But, the trickylukav bitbit comesdolazi the nextSljedeći morningjutro,
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Nezgodno postaje jutro poslije,
17:15
for the dancerplesač himselfsam, when he wakesBudi up
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za samog plesača. Kad se probudi
17:18
and discoversotkriva that it's TuesdayUtorak at 11 a.m., and he's no longerviše a glimpsesvjetlucanje of God.
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i shvati da je danas utorak, 11 sati ujutro, i da on više nije tračak Boga.
17:22
He's just an agingstarenje mortalsmrtan with really badloše kneeskoljena,
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Već smrtnik koji stari i bole ga koljena
17:25
and maybe he's never going to ascenduspon to that heightvisina again.
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i možda nikad više neće doseći te vrhunce.
17:29
And maybe nobodynitko will ever chantpjevati God'sBog je nameime again as he spinsvrti,
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Možda nikad nitko više neće zazivati Boga dok on pleše.
17:33
and what is he then to do with the restodmor of his life?
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I što da sad radi s ostatkom života?
17:36
This is hardteško.
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Teško je to.
17:37
This is one of the mostnajviše painfulbolan reconciliationsusklađivanja to make
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To je nešto najbolnije s čime se trebamo pomiriti
17:40
in a creativekreativan life.
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u svom životu stvaratelja.
17:42
But maybe it doesn't have to be quitedosta so fullpuni of anguishtjeskobe
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No možda to ne bi bilo tako zahtjevno i tjeskobno
17:45
if you never happeneddogodilo to believe, in the first placemjesto,
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kada ne bismo, za početak, vjerovali
17:49
that the mostnajviše extraordinaryizvanredan aspectsaspekti of your beingbiće camedošao from you.
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da najizvrsniji dijelovi našeg bića dolaze od nas samih.
17:53
But maybe if you just believedvjerovao that they were on loanzajam to you
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Zašto ne bismo vjerovali da ih samo posuđujemo
17:56
from some unimaginablenezamisliv sourceizvor for some exquisiteFin portiondio of your life
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od nekog nezamislivog izvora, tijekom veličanstvenog dijela svog života
17:59
to be passedprošao alonguz when you're finishedgotov, with somebodyneko elsedrugo.
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a kad završimo, onda ih proslijedimo dalje, nekom drugom.
18:03
And, you know, if we think about it this way it startspočinje to changepromijeniti everything.
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Kada bismo počeli tako razmišljati, to bi promijenilo sve.
18:08
This is how I've startedpočeo to think,
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Tako sam ja počela razmišljati,
18:10
and this is certainlysigurno how I've been thinkingmišljenje in the last fewnekoliko monthsmjeseci
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pogotovo zadnjih nekoliko mjeseci
18:13
as I've been workingrad on the bookrezervirati that will soonuskoro be publishedObjavljeno,
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dok sam radila na knjizi koja će uskoro ugledati svjetlo dana
18:16
as the dangerouslyopasno, frighteninglyzastrašujuće over-anticipated-Očekivani followslijediti up
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kao zastrašujući, totalno preočekivani nastavak
18:20
to my freakishhirovit successuspjeh.
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mog jezovitog uspjeha.
18:22
And what I have to, sortvrsta of keep tellingreći myselfsebe
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Moram si to govoriti i dalje
18:25
when I get really psychedu komi out about that,
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kad izludim od svega.
18:27
is, don't be afraiduplašen.
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"Ne boj se."
18:29
Don't be dauntedobeshrabriti.
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"Ne plaši se."
18:31
Just do your jobposao.
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"Samo radi svoj posao."
18:33
ContinueI dalje to showpokazati up for your piecekomad of it, whateveršto god that mightmoć be.
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Samo nastavi redovito dolaziti. Odradi svoj dio posla, ma kakav bio.
18:36
If your jobposao is to danceples, do your danceples.
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Ako je tvoje da plešeš, pleši.
18:39
If the divinebožanske, cockeyedsjebano geniusgenije assigneddodijeljena to your casespis
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Ako božanski, prevrtljivi genij dodijeljen tvom slučaju
18:43
decidesodlučuje to let some sortvrsta of wondermentčuđenje be glimpsednazire, for just one momenttrenutak
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odluči da se na trenutak tračak božanstvenosti nazre
18:48
throughkroz your effortsnapori, then "OlOlé!"
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baš kroz tvoj trud, tada "Olé!"
18:50
And if not, do your danceples anyhowu svakom slučaju.
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Ako ne, samo nastavi plesati.
18:53
And "OlOlé!" to you, nonethelessipak.
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I "Olé!" tebi, bez obzira.
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I believe this and I feel that we mustmora teachučiti it.
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Vjerujem to. Osjećam da to moramo podučavati.
18:57
"OlOlé!" to you, nonethelessipak,
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"Olé!" tebi, bez obzira.
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just for havingima the sheerfin humanljudski love and stubbornnesstvrdoglavost
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Zbog čiste ljudske ljubavi i tvrdoglavosti
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to keep showingpokazivanje up.
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da se pojaviš.
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Thank you.
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Hvala.
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
19:08
Thank you.
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Hvala.
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
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JuneLipnja CohenCohen: OlOlé!
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June Cohen: "Olé!"
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
Translated by Irena Krčelić
Reviewed by Nenad Maljković

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Elizabeth Gilbert - Writer
The author of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and hard about some big topics. Her fascinations: genius, creativity and how we get in our own way when it comes to both.

Why you should listen

Elizabeth Gilbert faced down a premidlife crisis by doing what we all secretly dream of -- running off for a year. Her travels through Italy, India and Indonesia resulted in the megabestselling and deeply beloved memoir Eat, Pray, Love, about her process of finding herself by leaving home.

She's a longtime magazine writer -- covering music and politics for Spin and GQ -- as well as a novelist and short-story writer. Her books include the story collection Pilgrims, the novel Stern Men (about lobster fishermen in Maine) and a biography of the woodsman Eustace Conway, called The Last American Man. Her work has been the basis for two movies so far (Coyote Ugly, based on her own tale of working at the famously raunchy bar in New York City), and Eat, Pray, Love, with the part of Gilbert played by Julia Roberts. Not bad for a year off.

In 2010, Elizabeth published Committed, a memoir exploring her ambivalent feelings about the institution of marriage. And her 2013 novel, The Signature of All Things, is "a sprawling tale of 19th century botanical exploration."

Gilbert also owns and runs the import shop Two Buttons in Frenchtown, New Jersey.

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