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Sarah Lewis: Embrace the near win
Sarah Lewis: Sprejmite skorajšnje zmage
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V svoji prvi službi v muzeju je umetnostna zgodovinarka, Sarah Lewis, opazila nekaj pomembnega o umetnici, ki jo je proučevala: Ni bilo vsako njeno delo mojstrovina. Nagovarja nas, da razmislimo o vlogi skorajšnjega neuspeha, skorajšnje zmage v naših življenjih. Ali so v našem iskanju uspeha in mojstrstva pravzaprav naše skorajšnje zmage tisto, kar nam daje zagon, da nadaljujemo?
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Art historian and critic Sarah Lewis celebrates creativity and shows how it can lead us through fear and failure to ultimate success. Full bio
Art historian and critic Sarah Lewis celebrates creativity and shows how it can lead us through fear and failure to ultimate success. Full bio
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00:13
I feel so fortunate that my first job
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Imam veliko srečo, da sem
imela prvo službo
imela prvo službo
00:15
was working at the Museum of Modern Art
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v Muzeju sodobne umetnosti
00:18
on a retrospective of painter Elizabeth Murray.
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na retrospektivi del
slikarke Elizabeth Murray.
slikarke Elizabeth Murray.
00:21
I learned so much from her.
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Toliko sem se naučila od nje.
00:23
After the curator Robert Storr
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Ko je kurator Robert Storr
00:25
selected all the paintings
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izbral vse slike
00:27
from her lifetime body of work,
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iz njenega opusa,
00:30
I loved looking at the paintings from the 1970s.
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sem najraje gledala slike iz sedemdesetih.
00:33
There were some motifs and elements
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Tam so bili motivi in elementi,
00:36
that would come up again later in her life.
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ki so se ponovno pojavili tudi kasneje.
00:39
I remember asking her
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Spominjam se, da sem jo vprašala,
00:41
what she thought of those early works.
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kaj misli o svojih zgodnjih delih.
00:43
If you didn't know they were hers,
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Če ne bi vedeli, da so njena,
00:45
you might not have been able to guess.
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mogoče tega ne bi niti uganili.
00:47
She told me that a few didn't quite meet
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Rekla je, da nekaj teh del ne zadostuje
00:50
her own mark for what she wanted them to be.
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njenim visokim merilom.
00:54
One of the works, in fact,
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Pravzaprav je bilo eno od del
tako daleč od tega,
tako daleč od tega,
00:55
so didn't meet her mark,
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00:57
she had set it out in the trash in her studio,
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da ga je hotela zavreči že v ateljeju,
01:00
and her neighbor had taken it
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a ga je potem vzela njena soseda,
01:02
because she saw its value.
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ker je prepoznala njegovo vrednost.
01:04
In that moment, my view of success
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V tistem trenutku se je
moj pogled na uspeh
moj pogled na uspeh
01:07
and creativity changed.
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in ustvarjalnost spremenil.
01:10
I realized that success is a moment,
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Spoznala sem, da je uspeh le trenutek,
01:13
but what we're always celebrating
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kar pa slavimo vedno,
01:15
is creativity and mastery.
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sta ustvarjalnost in mojstrstvo.
01:19
But this is the thing: What gets us to convert success
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Toda: Kako spremenimo uspeh
01:22
into mastery?
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v mojstrstvo?
01:24
This is a question I've long asked myself.
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To sem se dolgo spraševala.
01:27
I think it comes when we start to value
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Mislim, da se to zgodi, ko začnemo ceniti
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the gift of a near win.
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darilo skorajšnje zmage.
01:33
I started to understand this when I went
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To sem začenjala razumeti, ko sem šla
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on one cold May day
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neko mrzlo majsko jutro
01:38
to watch a set of varsity archers,
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gledat tekmo univerzitetnih lokostrelcev,
01:40
all women as fate would have it,
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po naključju samih žensk,
01:42
at the northern tip of Manhattan
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na severni konec Manhattna
01:45
at Columbia's Baker Athletics Complex.
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v dvorano Baker Athletics Complex
univerze Columbia.
univerze Columbia.
01:48
I wanted to see what's called archer's paradox,
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Hotela sem videti tisto,
kar imenujejo lokostrelčev paradoks,
kar imenujejo lokostrelčev paradoks,
01:52
the idea that in order to actually hit your target,
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to je ideja, da morate za to,
da tarčo res zadenete,
da tarčo res zadenete,
01:54
you have to aim at something slightly skew from it.
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meriti v nekaj rahlo stran od nje.
01:59
I stood and watched as the coach
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Stala sem in gledala, kako je trener
pripeljal te ženske v sivem kombiju
pripeljal te ženske v sivem kombiju
02:01
drove up these women in this gray van,
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02:04
and they exited with this kind of relaxed focus.
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in izstopile so v nekakšni
sproščeni osredotočenosti.
sproščeni osredotočenosti.
02:07
One held a half-eaten ice cream cone in one hand
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Ena je držala pol sladoleda v eni roki
02:09
and arrows in the left with yellow fletching.
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in puščice z rumenim perjem v levi.
02:12
And they passed me and smiled,
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Šle so mimo in se nasmehnile,
02:15
but they sized me up as they
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in me premerile s pogledi
02:16
made their way to the turf,
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ob odhodu na poligon,
02:18
and spoke to each other not with words
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in niso se pogovarjale z besedami,
02:20
but with numbers, degrees, I thought,
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ampak s številkami, mislim da stopinjami,
02:23
positions for how they might plan
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položaji kako nameravajo
zadeti svoje tarče.
zadeti svoje tarče.
02:24
to hit their target.
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Stala sem za eno lokostrelko,
ko je njen trener
ko je njen trener
02:26
I stood behind one archer as her coach
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02:29
stood in between us to maybe assess
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stal med nama, najverjetneje, da oceni,
02:31
who might need support, and watched her,
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kdo potrebuje podporo. Gledala sem
02:33
and I didn't understand how even one
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in nisem razumela, kako bo sploh katera
02:35
was going to hit the ten ring.
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zadela obroč za deset točk.
02:38
The ten ring from the standard 75-yard distance,
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Ta obroč je s standardne
68,6 metrske razdalje
68,6 metrske razdalje
02:41
it looks as small as a matchstick tip
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videti velika kot glavica vžigalice,
02:44
held out at arm's length.
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ki jo držite v iztegnjeni roki.
02:46
And this is while holding 50 pounds of draw weight
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In to, ko zadržujete skoraj
23 kilogramov natezne moči
23 kilogramov natezne moči
02:49
on each shot.
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ob vsakem strelu.
02:52
She first hit a seven, I remember, and then a nine,
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Najprej je zadela krog
za sedem točk, nato devet
za sedem točk, nato devet
02:55
and then two tens,
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in dve desetki
02:56
and then the next arrow
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in potem naslednja puščica
sploh ni zadela tarče.
sploh ni zadela tarče.
02:57
didn't even hit the target.
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02:59
And I saw that gave her more tenacity,
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Videla sem, da ji je to dalo še več zagona
03:01
and she went after it again and again.
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in streljala je spet in spet.
03:04
For three hours this went on.
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In tako naslednje tri ure.
03:07
At the end of the practice, one of the archers
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Ob koncu vadbe je bila ena od lokostrelk
03:09
was so taxed that she lied out on the ground
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tako izmučena, da je legla na tla
03:12
just star-fished,
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z vsemi štirimi od sebe,
03:14
her head looking up at the sky,
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s pogledom v nebo
03:16
trying to find what T.S. Eliot might call
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in iskala nekaj, kar bi T. S. Elliot
mogoče poimenoval
mogoče poimenoval
03:19
that still point of the turning world.
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tista nepremična točka vrtečega se sveta.
03:22
It's so rare in American culture,
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To je postala redkost v ameriški kulturi,
tako malo je še ostalo poklicnega,
tako malo je še ostalo poklicnega,
03:25
there's so little that's vocational about it anymore,
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03:28
to look at what doggedness looks like
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videti, kaj pomeni zagrizenost
03:30
with this level of exactitude,
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s tako mero natančnosti,
03:32
what it means to align your body posture
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kaj pomeni držati se pokončno
03:35
for three hours in order to hit a target,
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tri ure, da zadeneš tarčo,
03:38
pursuing a kind of excellence in obscurity.
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in iskati neke vrste
odličnost v neopaznosti.
odličnost v neopaznosti.
03:42
But I stayed because I realized I was witnessing
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A ostala sem zaradi spoznanja,
da sem priča nečemu, kar redko vidimo,
da sem priča nečemu, kar redko vidimo,
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what's so rare to glimpse,
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03:47
that difference between success and mastery.
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tisti razliki med uspehom in mojstrstvom.
03:50
So success is hitting that ten ring,
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Uspeh je torej, da zadeneš desetko,
03:53
but mastery is knowing that it means nothing
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mojstrstvo pa je vedenje,
da to ne pomeni nič,
da to ne pomeni nič,
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if you can't do it again and again.
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če tega ne zmoreš storiti znova in znova.
03:59
Mastery is not just the same as excellence, though.
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A mojstrstvo ni povsem enako odličnosti.
04:02
It's not the same as success,
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Ni enako kot uspeh,
04:04
which I see as an event,
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ki ga vidim kot dogodek,
04:07
a moment in time,
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trenutek v času
04:08
and a label that the world confers upon you.
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in oznako, ki ti jo podeli svet.
04:11
Mastery is not a commitment to a goal
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Mojstrstvo ni zavezanost cilju,
04:15
but to a constant pursuit.
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ampak stalnemu zasledovanju cilja.
04:17
What gets us to do this,
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To, kar nas k temu pripravi
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what get us to forward thrust more
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in nas sili, da rinemo naprej,
porinemo močneje,
porinemo močneje,
04:22
is to value the near win.
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je to, da cenimo skorajšnje zmage.
04:26
How many times have we designated something
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Kolikokrat smo nekaj videli kot
04:28
a classic, a masterpiece even,
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klasiko, celo mojstrovino,
04:31
while its creator considers it hopelessly unfinished,
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medtem, ko je njen ustvarjalec videl
le nekaj obupno nedokončanega,
le nekaj obupno nedokončanega,
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riddled with difficulties and flaws,
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prepredenega s težavami in napakami,
04:36
in other words, a near win?
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z drugimi besedami, skorajšnjo zmago?
04:39
Elizabeth Murray surprised me
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Elizabeth Murray me je presenetila
04:41
with her admission about her earlier paintings.
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s svojim priznanjem glede
svojih zgodnjih del.
svojih zgodnjih del.
04:45
Painter Paul Cézanne so often
thought his works were incomplete
thought his works were incomplete
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Slikar Paul Cézanne je pogosto
ocenjeval svoja dela za nedokončana
ocenjeval svoja dela za nedokončana
04:48
that he would deliberately leave them aside
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in jih namerno puščal ob strani,
04:50
with the intention of picking them back up again,
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odločen, da se jih pozneje loti znova,
04:53
but at the end of his life,
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a ob koncu njegovega življenja,
04:54
the result was that he had only signed
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je bil rezultat to, da je podpisal
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10 percent of his paintings.
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le 10% svojih del.
04:59
His favorite novel was "The [Unknown]
Masterpiece" by Honoré de Balzac,
Masterpiece" by Honoré de Balzac,
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Njegov najljubši roman je bil
Balzacova 'Neznana mojstrovina',
Balzacova 'Neznana mojstrovina',
05:03
and he felt the protagonist was the painter himself.
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in čutil je, da je on sam
junak tega romana.
junak tega romana.
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Franz Kafka saw incompletion
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Franz Kafka je videl nepopolnost,
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when others would find only works to praise,
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kjer so drugi našli le
dela vredna pohvale,
dela vredna pohvale,
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so much so that he wanted all of his diaries,
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do take mere, da je hotel,
da vse njegove dnevnike,
da vse njegove dnevnike,
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manuscripts, letters and even sketches
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rokopise, pisma in celo osnutke
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burned upon his death.
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zažgejo po njegovi smrti.
05:21
His friend refused to honor the request,
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Njegov prijatelj ni hotel
spoštovati njegove želje
spoštovati njegove želje
05:24
and because of that, we now have all the works
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in zato imamo danes vsa dela
05:25
we now do by Kafka:
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Kafke, ki jih obravnavamo:
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"America," "The Trial" and "The Castle,"
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'Amerika', 'Proces' in 'Grad',
05:31
a work so incomplete it even stops mid-sentence.
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slednje tako nedokončano,
da se konča sredi stavka.
da se konča sredi stavka.
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The pursuit of mastery, in other words,
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Zasledovanje mojstrstva,
z drugimi besedami,
z drugimi besedami,
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is an ever-onward almost.
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je skorajda neskončno početje.
05:41
"Lord, grant that I desire
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"Bog, nakloni mi, da si želim
05:43
more than I can accomplish,"
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več kot lahko dosežem,"
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Michelangelo implored,
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je moledoval Michelangelo,
05:47
as if to that Old Testament God on the Sistine Chapel,
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kot bi govoril bogu Stare zaveze
v Sikstinski kapeli
v Sikstinski kapeli
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and he himself was that Adam
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in kot da je on sam tisti Adam
05:52
with his finger outstretched
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z iztegnjenim prstom,
05:54
and not quite touching that God's hand.
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ki se nikoli ne more čisto
dotakniti božje roke.
dotakniti božje roke.
05:59
Mastery is in the reaching, not the arriving.
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Mojstrstvo je v iztegovanju prsta,
ne v dotiku.
ne v dotiku.
06:03
It's in constantly wanting to close that gap
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Je v stalni želji premostitve tiste vrzeli
06:06
between where you are and where you want to be.
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med kjer si in kjer hočeš biti.
06:11
Mastery is about sacrificing for your craft
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Mojstrstvo je v žrtvovanju
za svoje delo
za svoje delo
06:14
and not for the sake of crafting your career.
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in ne za ustvarjanje kariere.
06:18
How many inventors and untold entrepreneurs
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Koliko izumiteljev in
nepoznanih podjetnikov živi ta pojav?
nepoznanih podjetnikov živi ta pojav?
06:21
live out this phenomenon?
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06:24
We see it even in the life
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Opazimo ga celo v življenju
06:25
of the indomitable Arctic explorer Ben Saunders,
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nepremagljivega arktičnega raziskovalca,
Bena Saundersa,
Bena Saundersa,
06:28
who tells me that his triumphs
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ki mi nekoč pove, da njegove zmage
06:30
are not merely the result
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niso samo rezultat
06:32
of a grand achievement,
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velikanskega dosežka,
06:34
but of the propulsion of a lineage of near wins.
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ampak zagona, ki ga daje
vrsta skorajšnjih zmag.
vrsta skorajšnjih zmag.
06:39
We thrive when we stay at our own leading edge.
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Najboljši smo, ko smo
na robu svojih zmogljivosti.
na robu svojih zmogljivosti.
06:42
It's a wisdom understood by Duke Ellington,
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To je modrost, ki jo je
razumel Duke Ellington,
razumel Duke Ellington,
06:45
who said that his favorite song out of his repertoire
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ki je rekel, da mu je
od njegovih najljubša
od njegovih najljubša
06:48
was always the next one,
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vedno tista naslednja pesem,
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always the one he had yet to compose.
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tista, ki jo je moral še napisati.
06:54
Part of the reason that the near win
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Del razloga, da je skorajšnja zmaga
06:56
is inbuilt to mastery
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vgrajena v mojstrstvo
06:58
is because the greater our proficiency,
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je ta, da višje kot so naše sposobnosti,
07:00
the more clearly we might see
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jasneje lahko vidimo,
07:03
that we don't know all that we thought we did.
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da ne vemo vsega,
kar smo mislili, da vemo.
kar smo mislili, da vemo.
07:06
It's called the Dunning–Kruger effect.
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To je Dunning-Krugerjev efekt.
07:08
The Paris Review got it out of James Baldwin
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Revija Paris Review ga je
našla pri Jamesu Baldwinu,
našla pri Jamesu Baldwinu,
07:11
when they asked him,
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ko so ga vprašali:
07:12
"What do you think increases with knowledge?"
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"Kaj mislite, da se veča z znanjem?"
07:15
and he said, "You learn how little you know."
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In odgovoril je: "Spoznaš kako malo veš."
07:20
Success motivates us, but a near win
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Uspeh nas motivira, ampak skorajšnja zmaga
07:22
can propel us in an ongoing quest.
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nas lahko popelje na neskončno iskanje.
07:25
One of the most vivid examples of this comes
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Enega najbolj živih primerov najdemo,
07:27
when we look at the difference
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če pogledamo razlike
07:29
between Olympic silver medalists
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med olimpijskimi dobitniki srebra
07:31
and bronze medalists after a competition.
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ali brona po tekmovanju.
07:34
Thomas Gilovich and his team from Cornell
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Thomas Gilovich in njegova ekipa
z univerze Cornell,
z univerze Cornell,
07:36
studied this difference and found
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so preučevali to razliko in ugotovili,
07:39
that the frustration silver medalists feel
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da frustracija, ki jo čutijo drugouvrščeni
07:41
compared to bronze, who are typically a bit
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v primerjavi z bronastimi, ki so navadno
07:43
more happy to have just not received fourth place
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veseli že, da niso četrti
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and not medaled at all,
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in brez medalje,
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gives silver medalists a focus
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daje srebrnim olimpijcem zbranost
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on follow-up competition.
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na sledečih tekmah.
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We see it even in the gambling industry
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Opazimo jo tudi v industriji
iger na srečo,
iger na srečo,
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that once picked up on this phenomenon
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ki je prepoznala pomen tega fenomena
07:56
of the near win
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skorajšnje zmage
07:57
and created these scratch-off tickets
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in ustvarila hipne srečke
08:00
that had a higher than average rate of near wins
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z višjim povprečjem skorajšnjih dobitkov,
08:03
and so compelled people to buy more tickets
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kar je ljudi tako sililo k nakupu,
08:06
that they were called heart-stoppers,
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da so jih poimenovali 'srčni napad'
08:08
and were set on a gambling industry set of abuses
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in so na seznamu zlorab
s strani igralniške industrije
s strani igralniške industrije
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in Britain in the 1970s.
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v Britaniji v sedemdesetih.
08:14
The reason the near win has a propulsion
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Razlog za tak zagon skorajšnje zmage
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is because it changes our view of the landscape
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je v tem, da spremeni naš pogled
08:19
and puts our goals, which we tend to put
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in premakne naše cilje, ki smo jih vajeni
08:22
at a distance, into more proximate vicinity
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postavljati v daljavo, veliko bližje,
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to where we stand.
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tja kjer stojimo.
08:26
If I ask you to envision what a
great day looks like next week,
great day looks like next week,
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Če vas prosim, da si zamislite,
kakšen bi bil odličen dan drug teden,
kakšen bi bil odličen dan drug teden,
08:30
you might describe it in more general terms.
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bi ga opisali bolj na splošno.
08:33
But if I ask you to describe a
great day at TED tomorrow,
great day at TED tomorrow,
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Če pa vas vprašam, kako bi
opisali super dan na TED jutri,
opisali super dan na TED jutri,
08:37
you might describe it with granular, practical clarity.
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bi ga opisali s podrobno,
praktično jasnostjo.
praktično jasnostjo.
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And this is what a near win does.
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To je učinek skorajšnje zmage.
08:42
It gets us to focus on what, right now,
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Zaradi nje se osredotočimo
na tisto, kar bomo
na tisto, kar bomo
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we plan to do to address that mountain in our sights.
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naredili, da osvojimo goro pred nami.
08:49
It's Jackie Joyner-Kersee, who in 1984
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Leta 1984 je Jackie Joyner-Kersee
08:53
missed taking the gold in the heptathlon
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zgrešila zlato v sedmeroboju
08:55
by one third of a second,
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za tretjinko sekunde,
08:57
and her husband predicted that would give her
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in njen mož je napovedal,
da ji bo to dalo
da ji bo to dalo
08:59
the tenacity she needed in follow-up competition.
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odločnost, ki jo je potrebovala
za prihodnjo tekmo.
za prihodnjo tekmo.
09:03
In 1988, she won the gold in the heptathlon
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Leta 1988 je osvojila zlato v sedmeroboju
09:06
and set a record of 7,291 points,
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in postavila rekord z 7.291 točkami,
09:10
a score that no athlete has come very close to since.
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ki se mu do danes še niso približali.
09:15
We thrive not when we've done it all,
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Zato sploh nismo najboljši,
ko nam je uspelo,
ko nam je uspelo,
09:18
but when we still have more to do.
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ampak, ko moramo še veliko postoriti.
09:21
I stand here thinking and wondering
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Tu sem in premišljujem
09:24
about all the different ways
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o vseh različnih načinih,
09:25
that we might even manufacture a near win
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s katerimi bi lahko morda
proizvedli skorajšnjo zmago tukaj
proizvedli skorajšnjo zmago tukaj
09:28
in this room,
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09:29
how your lives might play this out,
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in kako bi vaša življenja to izkoristila,
09:31
because I think on some gut level we do know this.
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saj menim, da nekje v sebi to že vsi vemo.
09:36
We know that we thrive when we stay
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Vemo, da smo najboljši,
ko ostanemo na meji svojih moči
ko ostanemo na meji svojih moči
09:37
at our own leading edge,
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09:39
and it's why the deliberate incomplete
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in zato je namerna nepopolnost
09:41
is inbuilt into creation myths.
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vgrajena v mite o ustvarjanju.
09:44
In Navajo culture, some craftsmen and women
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Pri Navajo Indijancih
nekateri rokodelci in ženske
nekateri rokodelci in ženske
09:46
would deliberately put an imperfection
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namenoma vdelajo napako
09:49
in textiles and ceramics.
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v tekstil in keramiko.
09:51
It's what's called a spirit line,
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Temu rečejo duhovna črta,
09:53
a deliberate flaw in the pattern
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namerna napaka v vzorcu,
09:55
to give the weaver or maker a way out,
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ki izdelovalcu nudi izhod,
09:58
but also a reason to continue making work.
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hkrati pa razlog, da še naprej izdeluje.
10:03
Masters are not experts because they take
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Mojstri niso strokovnjaki, ker slednji
svoje delo pripeljejo do idejnega konca.
svoje delo pripeljejo do idejnega konca.
10:05
a subject to its conceptual end.
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10:08
They're masters because they realize
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Mojstri so zato, ker spoznajo,
da tega sploh ni.
da tega sploh ni.
10:09
that there isn't one.
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10:12
Now it occurred to me, as I thought about this,
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Posvetilo se mi je,
ko sem o tem razmišljala,
ko sem o tem razmišljala,
10:15
why the archery coach
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zakaj mi je trener lokostrelstva
10:17
told me at the end of that practice,
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ob koncu vadbe,
10:19
out of earshot of his archers,
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tako da ni nihče mogel slišati,
10:21
that he and his colleagues never feel
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rekel, da s svojimi kolegi vedno čuti,
10:23
they can do enough for their team,
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kot da še niso naredili dovolj za moštvo,
10:25
never feel there are enough visualization techniques
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da še ni dovolj vizualizacijskih tehnik
10:28
and posture drills to help them overcome
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in treningov drže, da bi
jim pomagali premagati
jim pomagali premagati
10:31
those constant near wins.
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te stalne skorajšnje zmage.
10:33
It didn't sound like a complaint, exactly,
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Ni bilo slišati kot prava pritožba,
10:36
but just a way to let me know,
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ampak kot način, da mi pove
10:38
a kind of tender admission,
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neke vrste nežno priznanje,
10:40
to remind me that he knew
he was giving himself over
he was giving himself over
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da me spomni, da se zaveda svoje predaje
10:43
to a voracious, unfinished path
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tej nenasitni in nedokončani poti,
10:46
that always required more.
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ki vedno zahteva več.
10:49
We build out of the unfinished idea,
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Gradimo iz nedokončane ideje,
10:52
even if that idea is our former self.
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četudi je ta ideja naš pretekli jaz.
10:57
This is the dynamic of mastery.
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To je dinamika mojstrstva.
11:00
Coming close to what you thought you wanted
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Približevati se tistemu,
kar misliš, da hočeš,
kar misliš, da hočeš,
11:03
can help you attain more than you ever dreamed
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ti pomaga osvojiti več,
kot si kdajkoli sanjal, da lahko.
kot si kdajkoli sanjal, da lahko.
11:06
you could.
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11:07
It's what I have to imagine Elizabeth Murray
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Mislim, da si je to morala
misliti Elizabeth Murray,
misliti Elizabeth Murray,
11:10
was thinking when I saw her smiling
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ko sem jo videla smehljati se
11:12
at those early paintings one day
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tistim svojim zgodnjim slikam tedaj
11:14
in the galleries.
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v galeriji.
11:17
Even if we created utopias, I believe
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Tudi, če bi ustvarili utopije,
mislim da bi še vedno imeli nepopolnost.
mislim da bi še vedno imeli nepopolnost.
11:20
we would still have the incomplete.
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11:23
Completion is a goal,
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Dokončanje je cilj,
11:25
but we hope it is never the end.
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a upamo, da ni nikoli tudi konec.
11:29
Thank you.
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Hvala.
11:32
(Applause)
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(Aplavz.)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sarah Lewis - WriterArt historian and critic Sarah Lewis celebrates creativity and shows how it can lead us through fear and failure to ultimate success.
Why you should listen
Curator and critic Sarah Lewis has emerged as a cultural powerhouse for her fresh perspectives on the dialogue between culture, history, and identity. In 2010, she co-curated the groundbreaking SITE Santa Fe biennial, a platform celebrating artists melding the “homespun and the high-tech.” She has served on Obama’s National Arts Policy Committee, and as a curatorial advisor for Brooklyn’s high-profile Barclays Center.
Her debut book The Rise analyzes the idea of failure, focusing on case studies that reveal how setbacks can become a tool enabling us to master our destinies. As she says: "The creative process is actually how we fashion our lives and follow other pursuits. Failure is not something that might be helpful; it actually is the process." — Art21.org.
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