ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Matthew Childs - Marketer, rock climber
Matthew Childs is an advertising lead at Razorfish. He is a lifelong rock climber and climbing guide.

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A specialist in digital branding and interactive services, Matthew Childs seeks out new trends in competitive markets. As an advertising lead at Razorfish, Childs draws from extensive experience in the marketing world, having led Nike's global internal communications department. Before that, he was a writer and editor for Outside Magazine and Playboy.

Apart from his career, Childs' passion is rock climbing.

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TED2009

Matthew Childs: 9 life lessons from rock climbing

Matthew Childs iznosi devet životnih lekcija iz penjanja

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U ovom govoru sa TED Sveučilišta 2009., veteran u penjanju po stijenama Matthew Childs iznosi devet naputaka za penjanje. Ovi praktični savjeti su također učinkoviti i u životu na morskoj razini.
- Marketer, rock climber
Matthew Childs is an advertising lead at Razorfish. He is a lifelong rock climber and climbing guide. Full bio

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It's prettyprilično simplejednostavan. There are ninedevet, sortvrsta of, rulespravila
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Vrlo je jednostavno. Postoji devet pravila
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that I discoveredotkriven after 35 yearsgodina of rockstijena climbingpenjanje.
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koje sam otkrio nakon 35 godina penjanja po stijenama.
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MostVećina of them are prettyprilično basicosnovni.
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Većina ih je prilično osnovna.
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NumberBroj one: don't let go --
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Broj jedan: Ne puštajte –
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very sure successuspjeh methodnačin.
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vrlo sigurna metoda uspjeha.
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But really, trulyuistinu -- oftenčesto you think about
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Ali zaista -- često vmislite o tome kako ćete se
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lettingiznajmljivanje go way before your bodytijelo does.
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pustiti daleko prije nego vaše tijelo to osjeti.
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So hangobjesiti in there,
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Stoga, držite se
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and you come up with some prettyprilično peculiarosebujan solutionsrješenja.
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i naići ćete na neka čudna rješenja.
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NumberBroj two: hesitationoklijevanja is badloše.
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Broj dva: Oklijevanje je loše.
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This is a frictiontrenje climbpopeti se, up in TuolumneTuolumne MeadowsLivade,
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Ovo je penjanje uz trenje, gore u Tuolumne Meadows,
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in the YosemiteYosemite highvisok countryzemlja.
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u okružju Yosemite.
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FrictionTrenje climbingpenjanje doesn't have any sortvrsta of hardteško positivepozitivan edgesrubovi.
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Penjanje uz trenje nema nikakvih oštrih rubova.
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You're climbingpenjanje on little dimplesbubuljice and nubbinskocijena in the rockstijena.
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Penjete se uz male ulegnuča i izbočine u stijeni.
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The mostnajviše frictiontrenje you have is when you first put your handruka
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Najveću frikcijuimate kada prvi put stavite ruku
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or your footnoga on the rockstijena.
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ili nogu na stijenu.
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And then from that pointtočka on, you're basicallyu osnovi fallingkoji pada.
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I poslije tog trenutka, vi zapravo padate.
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So momentummoment is good. Don't stop.
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Momentum je dobar. Nemojte stajati.
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RulePravilo numberbroj threetri: have a planplan.
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Pravilo broj tri: Imajte plan.
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This is a climbpopeti se calledzvao the NakedGola EdgeRub,
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Ovo je stijena zvana Naked Edge
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in ElEl DoradoDorada CanyonKanjon, outsideizvan of BoulderBoulder.
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u kanjonu El Dorado, izvan Bouldera.
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This climberpenjač is on the last pitchnagib of it.
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Ovaj penjač je skoro pri vrhu.
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He's actuallyzapravo right about where I fellpao.
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On je zapravo baš tamo gdje sam ja pao.
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There is about 1,000 feetnoge of airzrak belowispod him.
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Oko 305 metara zraka je ispod njega.
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And all the hardteško pitchesparcela are actuallyzapravo belowispod him.
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I sve teške parcele su zapravo ispod njega.
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OftenČesto what happensdogađa se is
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Često se dogodi
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you're planningplaniranje so hardteško for like,
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da planirate
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"How do I get throughkroz the hardestnajteži partdio? How do I get throughkroz the hardestnajteži partdio?"
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"Kako ću proći najteži dio? Kako ću proći najteži dio?"
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And then what happensdogađa se?
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I što se tada dogodi?
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You get to the last pitchnagib. It's easylako.
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Dođete do zadnje parcele. Lako je.
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And you're completelypotpuno flamedFlamed out. Don't do it.
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I potpuno izgorite. Nemojte to raditi.
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You have to planplan aheadnaprijed to get to the topvrh.
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Morate unaprijed planirati kako doći do vrha.
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But you alsotakođer can't forgetzaboraviti that eachsvaki individualpojedinac movepotez
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Morate zapamtiti kako svaki pojedinačni pokret
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you have to be ableu stanju to completepotpun.
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morate biti u mogućnosti završiti.
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This is a climbpopeti se calledzvao the DikeNasipa RouteRuta,
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Ovo je uspon Dike Route
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on PywjackPywjack DomeKupola, up in the YosemiteYosemite highvisok countryzemlja.
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na Peyrat Dome, u okružju Yosemite.
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The interestingzanimljiv thing about this climbpopeti se is it's not that hardteško.
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Zanimljiva stvar ovog uspona jest da nije tako težak.
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But if you're the leadervođa on it,
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Ali ako ste vođa,
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at the hardestnajteži movepotez, you're looking at about 100 footnoga fallpad,
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na najtežem dijelu, gledate pad od 30 metara
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ontona some lownizak anglekut slabsploče.
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na neke ploče niskog ugla.
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So you've got to focusfokus.
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Morate se usredotočiti.
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You don't want to stop in the middlesrednji like
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Ne želite se zaustaviti na sredini
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Coleridge'sColeridge KublaKubla KahnKahn.
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kao što je Coleridge Kubla Kahn.
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You've got to keep going.
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Morate nastaviti.
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RulePravilo numberbroj fivepet: know how to restodmor.
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Pravilo broj pet: Znajte se odmoriti.
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It's amazingnevjerojatan. The bestnajbolje climberspenjači
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Zanimljivo. Najbolji penjači
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are the onesone that in the mostnajviše extremekrajnost situationssituacije
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su oni koji u najekstremnijim situacijama
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can get theirnjihov bodiestjelesa into some positionpoložaj
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mogu dovesti njihova tijela u položaj
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where they can restodmor,
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u kojem se mogu odmoriti,
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regrouppregrupiranje, calmsmiriti themselvesse, focusfokus,
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pregrupirati, smiriti, fokusirati,
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and keep going.
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i krenuti dalje.
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This is a climbpopeti se in the NeedlesIgle, again in CaliforniaCalifornia.
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Ovo je uspon u Needles, opet u Kaliforniji.
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FearStrah really sucksje sranje because what it meanssredstva is
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Strah je zbilja loš jer to znači kako
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you're not focusingfokusiranje on what you're doing.
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niste usredotočeni na ono što radite.
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You're focusingfokusiranje on the consequencesposljedice of
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Usredotočujete se na posljedice
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failingnedostatak at what you're doing
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ako ne uspijete ono što radite,
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because any givendan movepotez should requirezahtijevati
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jer svaki sljedeći pokret zahtjeva
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all your concentrationkoncentracija and thought processesprocesi
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svu vašu koncentraciju i misaone procese
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to executeizvršiti it effectivelyučinkovito.
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kako biste to uspješno završili.
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One of the things in climbingpenjanje is, mostnajviše people
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Jedna od stvari u penjanju jest, većina ljudi
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sortvrsta of take it straightravno on. And they followslijediti the mostnajviše obviousočigledan solutionriješenje.
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gleda na to samo ravno. I oni slijede najočitije rješenje.
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This is the DevilsĐavoli TowerToranj in WyomingWyoming,
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Ovo je Devils Tower u Wyomingu,
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whichkoji is a columnarstupčasti basaltbazalt formationformacija
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stijene nastale hlađenjem lave,
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that mostnajviše of you probablyvjerojatno know from "CloseZatvori EncountersSusreti."
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koje većina zna iz "Bliskih susreta".
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With this, typicallytipično crackpukotina climberspenjači
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Tipični penjači će
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would put theirnjihov handsruke in and theirnjihov toesPrsti in
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staviti ruke i prste u pukotine i
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and just startpočetak climbingpenjanje.
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samo se početi penjati.
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The crackspukotine are too smallmali to get your toesPrsti into
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Pukotine su premale kako biste smjestili prste u njih,
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so the only way to climbpopeti se is usingkoristeći your fingertipsprstima
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jedini način da se popnete je koristeći
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in the crackspukotine,
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vrhove prstiju,
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and usingkoristeći opposingsuprotstavljanje pressurepritisak
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i koristeći suprotni pritisak,
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and forcingforsiranje yourselfsami up.
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gurajući sebe prema gore.
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RulePravilo numberbroj eightosam: strengthsnaga doesn't always equaljednak successuspjeh.
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Pravilo broj osam: Snaga nije uvijek istoznačna uspjehu.
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In the 35 yearsgodina I've been a climbingpenjanje guidevodič
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U 35 godina koliko sam vodič penjanja
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and taughtučio on indoorunutrašnji wallszidovi, and stuffstvari like that,
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i poučavao na unutarnjim zidovima, i sličnim stvarima,
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the mostnajviše importantvažno thing I've learnednaučeno
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najvažnija stvar koju sam naučio,
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was, guys will always try to do pull-upsdizanja.
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muškarci će uvijek pokušati raditi zgibove.
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BeginningPočetak guys, it's like, they thrashmlatiti, they thrashmlatiti,
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Početnici se tako popnu
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they get 15 feetnoge up --
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kojih 5 metara.
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and they can do about 15 pull-upsdizanja right --
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A oni mogu napraviti oko 15 zgibova, zar ne?
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And then they just flameplamen out.
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I onda jednostavno izgore.
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WomenŽene are much more in balanceravnoteža
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Žene su uravnoteženije
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because they don't have that ideaideja
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jer nemaju tu ideju
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that they're going to be ableu stanju to do 100 pull-upsdizanja.
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kako mogu napraviti 100 zgibova.
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They think about how to get the weighttežina over theirnjihov feetnoge
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Razmišljaju kako prenijeti težinu sa nogu
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because it's sortvrsta of naturalprirodni -- they carrynositi you all day long.
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jer je to prirodno. One te nose cijeli dan.
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So balanceravnoteža is really criticalkritično,
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Dakle, ravnoteža je kritična,
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and keepingčuvanje your weighttežina on your feetnoge,
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i održavanje težine na nogama,
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whichkoji is your strongestnajjači musclemišić.
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koje su vaš najjači mišić.
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And of coursenaravno there is rulepravilo numberbroj ninedevet.
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Naravno, pravilo broj devet.
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I camedošao up with rulepravilo numberbroj ninedevet after
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Naišao sam na to pravilo nakon što,
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I actuallyzapravo didn't planplan for a fallpad,
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zapravo nisam planirao pasti,
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and wentotišao about 40 feetnoge and crackednapuknut a ribrebro.
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a pao sam s oko 12 metara i slomio rebro.
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OnceJednom you get to that pointtočka where you know it's going to happendogoditi se,
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Kada dođete do tog trenutka kada znate kako će se to dogoditi,
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you need to startpočetak thinkingmišljenje about how you're going to let go
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morate početi razmišljati kako ćete se pustiti
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because that is the criticalkritično piecekomad
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jer je to kritično
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of not gettinguzimajući hurtpovrijediti --
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da nebiste stradali –
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how you're going to fallpad ontona the ropeuže,
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kako ćete pasti uz uže ili
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or if you're climbingpenjanje withoutbez a ropeuže,
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ako se penjete bez užeta,
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fallpad to a placemjesto where you can actuallyzapravo controlkontrolirati the fallpad.
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padnite na mjesto gdje možete kontrolirati pad.
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So don't hangobjesiti on tilldo the bittergorak endkraj.
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Ne držite se do samog kraja.
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Thank you very much.
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Hvala vam puno.
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Matthew Childs - Marketer, rock climber
Matthew Childs is an advertising lead at Razorfish. He is a lifelong rock climber and climbing guide.

Why you should listen

A specialist in digital branding and interactive services, Matthew Childs seeks out new trends in competitive markets. As an advertising lead at Razorfish, Childs draws from extensive experience in the marketing world, having led Nike's global internal communications department. Before that, he was a writer and editor for Outside Magazine and Playboy.

Apart from his career, Childs' passion is rock climbing.

More profile about the speaker
Matthew Childs | Speaker | TED.com