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With Wait But Why, Tim Urban demonstrates that complex and long-form writing can stand out in an online wilderness choked with listicles and clickbait.

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Tim Urban has become one of the Internet’s most popular writers. With wry stick-figure illustrations and occasionally epic prose on everything from procrastination to artificial intelligence, Urban's blog, Wait But Why, has garnered millions of unique page views, thousands of patrons and famous fans like Elon Musk.

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00:12
So in collegekolegij,
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Na fakulteti
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I was a governmentvlada majorMajor,
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sem študiral upravo,
00:16
whichki meanssredstva I had to writepiši
a lot of papersdokumenti.
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kar pomeni, da sem moral
napisati veliko seminarskih.
00:19
Now, when a normalnormalno studentštudent writespiše a paperpapir,
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Ko normalen študent piše seminarsko,
morda razporedi delo tako.
00:21
they mightmorda spreadširjenje the work out
a little like this.
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00:23
So, you know --
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Tako da, saj veste -
00:25
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
00:26
you get startedzačel maybe a little slowlypočasi,
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morda začneš bolj počasi,
00:28
but you get enoughdovolj doneKončano in the first weekteden
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ampak narediš dovolj v prvem tednu,
00:30
that, with some heaviertežji daysdnevi laterpozneje on,
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da z nekaj težjimi dnevi kasneje
00:32
everything getsdobi doneKončano, things stayostani civilcivilno.
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narediš vse, stvari ostanejo mirne.
00:34
(LaughterSmeh)
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(smeh)
00:35
And I would want to do that like that.
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In jaz bi to rad naredil tako.
00:38
That would be the plannačrt.
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To bi bil načrt.
00:39
I would have it all readypripravljen to go,
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Vse bi imel pripravljeno,
00:41
but then, actuallydejansko, the paperpapir
would come alongskupaj,
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ampak, ko bi prišla seminarska,
00:44
and then I would kindvrste of do this.
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bi naredil to.
00:46
(LaughterSmeh)
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(smeh)
00:48
And that would happense zgodi everyvsak singlesamski paperpapir.
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In to bi se zgodilo čisto vsakič.
00:51
But then cameprišel my 90-page-strani seniorstarejši thesisteza,
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A potem je prišla 90-stranska
diplomska naloga v zadnjem letniku,
00:55
a paperpapir you're supposeddomnevno
to spendporabiti a yearleto on.
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delo, na katerem naj bi delal celo leto.
00:57
And I knewvedel for a paperpapir like that,
my normalnormalno work flowtok was not an optionmožnost.
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In vedel sem, da za tako delo
moj običajni način dela ne pride v poštev.
01:01
It was way too bigvelik a projectprojekt.
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To je bil prevelik projekt.
01:02
So I plannednačrtovano things out,
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Zato sem splaniral
01:04
and I decidedodločil I kindvrste of had
to go something like this.
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in se odločil, da bom
moral delati nekako takole.
01:07
This is how the yearleto would go.
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Takole bi potekalo leto.
01:09
So I'd startZačni off lightsvetloba,
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Začel bi počasi
01:11
and I'd bumpbump it up in the middlesredi monthsmesecev,
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in se bolj zagnal v sredini leta
01:13
and then at the endkonec,
I would kickkick it up into highvisoko gearorodja
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in končno prestavil v najvišjo prestavo,
bilo bi kot nekakšno stopnišče.
01:16
just like a little staircasestopnišče.
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01:17
How hardtežko could it be
to walkhodi up the stairsstopnice?
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Kako težko pa je hoditi po stopnicah?
01:20
No bigvelik dealobravnava, right?
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Nič takega, kajne?
01:23
But then, the funniestsmešno thing happenedse je zgodilo.
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A potem se je zgodilo nekaj hecnega.
01:24
Those first fewmalo monthsmesecev?
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Prvih nekaj mesecev?
01:26
They cameprišel and wentšla,
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Prišli so in odšli
01:27
and I couldn'tni mogel quitečisto do stuffstvari.
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in nekako nisem mogel delati.
01:29
So we had an awesomesuper newnovo revisedspremenjen plannačrt.
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Zato sem imel krasen
na novo izdelan načrt.
01:31
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
01:32
And then --
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In potem -
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(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
01:35
But then those middlesredi monthsmesecev
actuallydejansko wentšla by,
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In nato so prišli meseci na sredini leta
01:38
and I didn't really writepiši wordsbesede,
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in pravzaprav nisem napisal nobene besede,
01:40
and so we were here.
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in bil sem tu.
01:43
And then two monthsmesecev turnedobrnjen into one monthmesec,
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In nato sta se dva meseca
spremenila v enega,
01:46
whichki turnedobrnjen into two weekstednih.
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ki se je spremenil v dva tedna.
01:47
And one day I wokezbudil se je up
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In nekega dne sem se zbudil
01:49
with threetri daysdnevi untildo the deadlinerok,
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in do roka sem imel še tri dni,
01:53
still not havingimeti writtennapisano a wordbeseda,
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napisal nisem niti besede,
01:55
and so I did the only thing I could:
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in tako sem naredil edino, kar sem lahko:
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I wrotenapisal 90 pagesstrani over 72 hoursure,
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napisal sem 90 strani v 72 urah,
02:00
pullingvlečenje not one but two all-nightersAll-nighters --
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pisal celo noč ne samo enkrat,
ampak dvakrat -
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humansljudje are not supposeddomnevno to pullpotegnite
two all-nightersAll-nighters --
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ljudje naj ne bi pisali
celo noč dva dni zapored -
02:06
sprintedsprinted acrossčez campuskampus,
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tekel čez kampus,
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dovegolob in slowpočasi motiongibanje,
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se v počasnem posnetku pognal
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and got it in just at the deadlinerok.
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in oddal v zadnjem trenutku.
02:11
I thought that was the endkonec of everything.
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Mislil sem, da je to to.
02:14
But a weekteden laterpozneje I get a call,
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A teden dni kasneje
sem dobil klic od šole.
02:15
and it's the schoolšola.
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02:17
And they say, "Is this TimTim UrbanUrban?"
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Rekli so: "Je to Tim Urban?"
02:19
And I say, "Yeah."
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In rekel sem: "Ja."
In rekli so: "Pogovoriti
se moramo o tvoji nalogi."
02:20
And they say, "We need
to talk about your thesisteza."
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02:23
And I say, "OK."
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In rekel sem: "OK."
02:25
And they say,
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In rekli so:
02:27
"It's the bestnajboljši one we'vesmo ever seenvidel."
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"Najboljša je od vseh."
02:29
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
02:32
(ApplauseAplavz)
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(Aplavz)
02:36
That did not happense zgodi.
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To se ni zgodilo.
02:38
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
02:40
It was a very, very badslab thesisteza.
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Bila je zelo slaba diplomska naloga.
02:43
(LaughterSmeh)
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(smeh)
02:45
I just wanted to enjoyuživajte that one momenttrenutek
when all of you thought,
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Želel sem samo uživati
v trenutku, ko ste vsi mislili:
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"This guy is amazingneverjetno!"
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"Ta tip je neverjeten!"
02:51
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
02:52
No, no, it was very, very badslab.
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Ne, ne, bilo je zelo slabo.
02:55
AnywayKakorkoli že, todaydanes I'm a writer-bloggerpisatelj in blogger guy.
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Kakorkoli, zdaj sem pisatelj in bloger.
02:58
I writepiši the blogblog Wait But Why.
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Pišem blog Wait But Why.
03:00
And a couplepar of yearslet agonazaj,
I decidedodločil to writepiši about procrastinationodlašanje.
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In pred nekaj leti, sem se odločil,
da bom pisal o odlašanju-prokrastinaciji.
03:04
My behaviorvedenje has always perplexedzmeden
the non-procrastinatorsprocrastinators around me,
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Moje obnašanje je vedno čudilo tiste
okrog mene, ki niso odlašali,
03:07
and I wanted to explainpojasnite
to the non-procrastinatorsprocrastinators of the worldsvet
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in tistim, ki ne odlašajo,
sem želel pojasniti,
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what goesgre on in the headsglave
of procrastinatorsprocrastinators,
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kaj se dogaja v glavi odlašalcev
in zakaj smo taki, kot smo.
03:13
and why we are the way we are.
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Imel sem hipotezo,
03:14
Now, I had a hypothesishipoteza
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03:16
that the brainsmožgani of procrastinatorsprocrastinators
were actuallydejansko differentdrugačen
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da so možgani odlašalcev
dejansko drugačni
03:18
than the brainsmožgani of other people.
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kot možgani drugih ljudi.
03:21
And to testtest this, I foundnajdemo an MRIMRI lablaboratorij
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In da bi to testiral,
sem našel MRI laboratorij,
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that actuallydejansko let me scanskeniranje bothoboje my brainmožganov
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v katerem so skenirali moje možgane
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and the brainmožganov of a provendokazano
non-procrastinatorOklijevalo,
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in možgane nekoga,
ki dokazano ni odlašalec,
03:29
so I could compareprimerjati them.
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da bi jih lahko primerjal.
03:30
I actuallydejansko broughtprinesel them here
to showshow you todaydanes.
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Prinesel sem jih sem,
da bi vam jih pokazal.
03:32
I want you to take a look carefullyskrbno
to see if you can noticeopaziti a differenceRazlika.
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Želim, da pozorno pogledate,
da boste videli, če opazite razliko.
Vem, da če niste strokovnjak za možgane,
ni tako očitno, a vseeno poglejte, prav?
03:36
I know that if you're not
a trainedusposobljeni brainmožganov expertstrokovnjak,
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it's not that obviousočitno,
but just take a look, OK?
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Tu so možgani ne-odlašalca.
03:40
So here'sTukaj je the brainmožganov
of a non-procrastinatorOklijevalo.
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[Racionalni odločevalec]
03:43
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
03:46
Now ...
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Tu pa...
03:48
here'sTukaj je my brainmožganov.
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tu so moji možgani.
[Opica instantne zadovoljitve]
03:50
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
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There is a differenceRazlika.
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Razlika je.
03:57
BothOba brainsmožgani have a RationalRacionalno
Decision-MakerOdločevalec in them,
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Oba imata v sebi Racionalnega odločevalca,
04:00
but the procrastinator'sOklijevalo osebe brainmožganov
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a v možganih odlašalca
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alsotudi has an InstantTrenutek GratificationZadovoljstvo MonkeyOpica.
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je tudi Opica instantne zadovoljitve.
04:05
Now, what does this mean
for the procrastinatorOklijevalo?
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Kaj to pomeni za odlašalca?
04:07
Well, it meanssredstva everything'svse je fine
untildo this happensse zgodi.
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Vse je v redu, dokler se ne zgodi tole.
04:09
[This is a perfectpopolno time
to get some work doneKončano.] [NopeNope!]
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[Zdaj je odličen čas, da opraviva
nekaj dela.] [Ne!]
04:12
So the RationalRacionalno Decision-MakerOdločevalec
will make the rationalracionalno decisionodločitev
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Racionalni odločevalec
bo sprejel racionalno odločitev,
04:15
to do something productiveproduktivno,
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da bi naredil nekaj produktivnega,
04:17
but the MonkeyOpica doesn't like that plannačrt,
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a Opici ta načrt ni všeč,
04:19
so he actuallydejansko takes the wheelkolo,
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zato prevzame krmilo
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and he sayspravi, "ActuallyDejansko, let's readpreberite
the entirecelotno WikipediaWikipedija pagestran
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in reče: "Rajši preberiva
celotno stran na Wikipediji
04:23
of the NancyNancy KerriganDejal Kerrigan/
TonyaTonya HardingHarding scandalškandal,
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o škandalu Nancy Kerrigan/Tonyi Harding,
04:25
because I just rememberedspomnil
that that happenedse je zgodilo.
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ker sem se pravkar
spomnil, da se je to zgodilo.
04:28
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
04:29
Then --
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Potem -
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(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
04:31
Then we're going to go over to the fridgehladilnik,
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Bova šla do hladilnika
in pogledala, če je notri kaj drugega
kot pred desetimi minutami.
04:33
to see if there's anything newnovo
in there sinceod 10 minutesminut agonazaj.
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Potem bova začela pot po YouTube,
04:36
After that, we're going to go
on a YouTubeYouTube spiralspirala
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04:39
that startsse začne with videosvideo posnetke
of RichardRichard FeynmanFeynman talkinggovoriti about magnetsmagneti
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ki se začne z videi
Richarda Feynmana o magnetih
04:42
and endskonča much, much laterpozneje
with us watchinggledal interviewsintervjuji
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in se konča veliko veliko kasneje
z gledanjem intervjujev
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with JustinJustin Bieber'sBieber je mommama.
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z mamo Justina Bieberja.
04:47
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
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"All of that's going to take a while,
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"Vse to bo trajalo nekaj časa,
04:51
so we're not going to really have roomsoba
on the scheduleurnik for any work todaydanes.
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zato danes na urniku ni prostora za delo.
Oprosti!
04:54
Sorry!"
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04:55
(SighVzdih)
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(Vzdih)
04:58
Now, what is going on here?
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Kaj se torej dogaja tukaj?
05:03
The InstantTrenutek GratificationZadovoljstvo MonkeyOpica
does not seemzdi se like a guy
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Opica instantne zadovoljitve se ne zdi
kot nekdo, ki bi ga želeli za krmilom.
05:06
you want behindzadaj the wheelkolo.
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05:07
He livesživi entirelypopolnoma in the presentprisotni momenttrenutek.
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Živi v tem trenutku.
05:09
He has no memoryspomin of the pastpreteklost,
no knowledgeznanje of the futureprihodnost,
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Nima spominov na preteklost,
ne ve za prihodnost
05:12
and he only caresskrbi about two things:
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in zanimata ga samo dve stvari:
05:14
easyenostavno and funzabavno.
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lahkotnost in zabava.
05:16
Now, in the animalživali worldsvet, that worksdela fine.
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V živalskem svetu to dobro deluje.
05:19
If you're a dogpes
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Če si pes
05:20
and you spendporabiti your wholeceloto life doing
nothing other than easyenostavno and funzabavno things,
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in celotno življenje počneš
samo lahkotne in zabavne stvari,
si zelo uspešen!
05:24
you're a hugeogromno successuspeh!
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05:25
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
05:27
And to the MonkeyOpica,
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In za Opico
05:29
humansljudje are just anotherdrugo animalživali speciesvrste.
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smo ljudje samo še ena živalska vrsta.
05:32
You have to keep well-sleptdobro spala, well-feddobro nahranjene
and propagatingrazmnoževalni into the nextNaslednji generationgeneracije,
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Biti moraš naspan, sit in se razmnoževati,
05:36
whichki in tribalplemensko timeskrat
mightmorda have workeddelal OK.
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kar je v plemenskih časih morda bilo ok.
05:38
But, if you haven'tne noticedopazili,
now we're not in tribalplemensko timeskrat.
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A če niste opazili,
mi nismo v plemenskih časih.
05:41
We're in an advancednapredno civilizationcivilizacija,
and the MonkeyOpica does not know what that is.
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Smo v napredni civilizaciji
in Opica ne ve, kaj je to.
05:45
WhichKi is why we have
anotherdrugo guy in our brainmožganov,
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Zato imamo v možganih še nekoga,
05:48
the RationalRacionalno Decision-MakerOdločevalec,
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Racionalnega Odločevalca,
05:50
who givesdaje us the abilitysposobnost to do things
no other animalživali can do.
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ki nam daje možnost, da naredimo stvari,
ki jih druge živali ne.
05:53
We can visualizevizualizirati the futureprihodnost.
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Lahko si predstavljamo prihodnost.
05:55
We can see the bigvelik pictureslika.
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Lahko vidimo celotno sliko.
05:57
We can make long-termdolgoročno plansnačrtov.
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Lahko imamo dolgoročne načrte.
05:58
And he wants to take
all of that into accountračun.
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In vse to hoče vzeti v zakup.
06:02
And he wants to just have us do
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In želi, da počnemo,
karkoli je trenutno smiselno.
06:03
whateverkarkoli makesnaredi sensesmisel
to be doing right now.
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06:06
Now, sometimesvčasih it makesnaredi sensesmisel
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Včasih je smiselno,
06:08
to be doing things that are easyenostavno and funzabavno,
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da počnemo svari,
ki so lahkotne in zabavne,
06:10
like when you're havingimeti dinnervečerja
or going to bedpostelja
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kot na primer, ko jeste večerjo
ali greste spat
06:12
or enjoyinguživa well-earneddobro zaslužil leisureprosti čas time.
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ali uživate v zasluženem prostem času.
06:14
That's why there's an overlapprekrivajo.
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Tu se stvari prekrivajo.
06:15
SometimesVčasih they agreese strinjam.
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Včasih se strinjata.
06:17
But other timeskrat, it makesnaredi much more sensesmisel
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A včasih je veliko bolj smiselno,
06:20
to be doing things that are hardertežje
and lessmanj pleasantprijetno,
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da počnemo stvari,
ki so težje in manj prijetne
06:24
for the sakesake of the bigvelik pictureslika.
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zaradi velike slike.
06:25
And that's when we have a conflictkonflikt.
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In takrat pride do konflikta.
06:28
And for the procrastinatorOklijevalo,
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In za odlašalca
06:29
that conflictkonflikt tendstežava to endkonec
a certainnekateri way everyvsak time,
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se konflikt vsakič konča na določen način,
06:31
leavingodhod him spendingporaba a lot of time
in this orangeoranžna zoneobmočje,
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in tako preživi
veliko časa v oranžni coni,
06:35
an easyenostavno and funzabavno placemesto that's entirelypopolnoma
out of the MakesNaredi SenseObčutek circlekrog.
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lahkotnem in zabavnem kraju,
ki je popolnoma izven Smiselnega kroga.
06:39
I call it the DarkTemno PlaygroundIgrišče.
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Pravim mu Temno Igrišče.
06:42
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
06:43
Now, the DarkTemno PlaygroundIgrišče is a placemesto
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Temno Igrišče je kraj,
06:47
that all of you procrastinatorsprocrastinators
out there know very well.
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ki ga vsi odlašalci dobro poznate.
06:50
It's where leisureprosti čas activitiesdejavnosti happense zgodi
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Tu se dogajajo prostočasne dejavnosti
06:52
at timeskrat when leisureprosti čas activitiesdejavnosti
are not supposeddomnevno to be happeningdogaja.
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v času, ko se prostočasne dejavnosti
ne bi smele dogajati.
06:56
The funzabavno you have in the DarkTemno PlaygroundIgrišče
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Ko se zabavaš v Temnem igrišču,
to pravzaprav ni zabava,
ker si je ne zaslužiš,
06:58
isn't actuallydejansko funzabavno,
because it's completelypopolnoma unearnedprenosne,
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in zrak je poln krivde, strahu,
tesnobe, sovraštva do sebe -
07:00
and the airzrak is fillednapolnjena with guiltkrivde,
dreadstrah, anxietyanksioznost, self-hatredsamo-sovraštvo --
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07:04
all of those good procrastinatorOklijevalo feelingsčustva.
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vseh teh pozitivnih odlaševalskih čustev.
07:06
And the questionvprašanje is, in this situationsituacija,
with the MonkeyOpica behindzadaj the wheelkolo,
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In vprašanje je, v tej situaciji,
z opico za krmilom,
07:10
how does the procrastinatorOklijevalo ever get
himselfsam over here to this bluemodra zoneobmočje,
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kako odlašalec sploh
pride v modro območje,
07:13
a lessmanj pleasantprijetno placemesto, but where
really importantpomembno things happense zgodi?
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manj prijeten kraj, kjer pa se
zgodijo res pomembne stvari?
07:17
Well, turnszavrti out the procrastinatorOklijevalo
has a guardianskrbnik angelAngel,
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Izkaže se, da ima odlašalec angela varuha,
07:22
someonenekdo who'skdo je always looking
down on him and watchinggledal over him
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ki vedno pazi nanj
07:25
in his darkestnajtemnejše momentstrenutke --
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v najtemnejših trenutkih -
07:26
someonenekdo calledpozval the PanicPanike MonsterPošast.
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imenuje se Panična Pošast.
07:28
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
07:34
Now, the PanicPanike MonsterPošast
is dormantmirujočem stanju mostnajbolj of the time,
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Panična Pošast večino časa počiva,
07:39
but he suddenlynenadoma wakesprebudi up
anytimekadarkoli a deadlinerok getsdobi too closeblizu
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a se nenadoma zbudi,
ko se skrajni rok preveč približa,
07:43
or there's dangernevarnost of publicjavnost embarrassmentzadrega,
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ali pa je tu nevarnost javne osramotitve,
07:45
a careerkariero disasterkatastrofa or some other
scarystrašno consequenceposledica.
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karierne katastrofe
ali kakšne druge grozne posledice.
07:47
And importantlypomembno, he's the only thing
the MonkeyOpica is terrifiedprestrašen of.
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Pomembno je tudi, da je edina,
ki se je Opica boji.
07:51
Now, he becamepostati very relevantpomembno
in my life prettylepa recentlypred kratkim,
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V mojem življenju je pred kratkim
postala zelo pomembna,
07:56
because the people of TEDTED
reacheddosegel out to me about sixšest monthsmesecev agonazaj
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ker so me ljudje s TED-a
kontaktirali pred šestimi meseci
07:59
and invitedpovabljeni me to do a TEDTED Talk.
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in me povabili, naj naredim TED govor.
08:01
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
08:07
Now, of courseseveda, I said yes.
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Seveda sem privolil.
08:08
It's always been a dreamsanje of minemoj
to have doneKončano a TEDTED Talk in the pastpreteklost.
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Vedno sem si želel,
da bi v preteklosti imel TED govor.
08:12
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
08:16
(ApplauseAplavz)
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(Aplavz)
08:24
But in the middlesredi of all this excitementvznemirjenje,
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A sredi vsega tega navdušenja
je imel Racionalni Odločevalec
nekaj drugega v mislih.
08:26
the RationalRacionalno Decision-MakerOdločevalec seemedzdelo se mi je
to have something elsedrugače on his mindum.
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Rekel je: "Veš, kaj sva pravkar sprejela?
08:29
He was sayinggovoriti, "Are we clearjasno
on what we just acceptedsprejeta?
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08:32
Do we get what's going to be now
happeningdogaja one day in the futureprihodnost?
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Sva dojela, kaj se bo dogajalo
nekega dne v prihodnosti?
08:35
We need to sitsedi down
and work on this right now."
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Takoj se morava lotiti dela."
08:37
And the MonkeyOpica said, "TotallyPopolnoma agreese strinjam,
but let's just openodprto GoogleGoogle EarthZemlja
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In Opica je rekla: "Popolnoma se strinjam,
a samo odpriva Google Earth
08:40
and zoomzoom in to the bottomspodaj of IndiaIndija,
like 200 feetstopala abovenad the groundtla,
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in približajva jug Indije,
kakšnih 60 metrov nad tlemi,
in se pomikajva
do vrha države v dveh urah in pol,
08:44
and scrollpomaknite se up for two and a halfpol hoursure
tiltil we get to the topna vrh of the countrydržava,
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da dobiva občutek, kakšna je Indija."
08:47
so we can get a better feel for IndiaIndija."
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08:49
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
08:55
So that's what we did that day.
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In to sva ta dan res storila.
08:56
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
09:00
As sixšest monthsmesecev turnedobrnjen into fourštiri
and then two and then one,
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In šest mesecev se je spremenilo v štiri,
nato dva in nato enega,
09:04
the people of TEDTED decidedodločil
to releasesprostitev the speakerszvočniki.
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in ljudje s TED-a so objavili govornike.
09:07
And I openedodprta up the websitespletno stran,
and there was my faceobraz
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In odprl sem spletno stran
in tam je bil moj obraz,
09:10
staringstrmel right back at me.
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ki je strmel naravnost vame.
09:11
And guessugibati who wokezbudil se je up?
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In uganite, kdo se je prebudil?
09:13
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
09:17
So the PanicPanike MonsterPošast
startsse začne losingizgublja his mindum,
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Panični Pošasti se je zmešalo
09:19
and a fewmalo secondssekund laterpozneje,
the wholeceloto system'ssistema in mayhemzločin.
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in nekaj sekund kasneje
je celoten sistem v kaosu.
09:22
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
09:27
And the MonkeyOpica -- rememberZapomni si,
he's terrifiedprestrašen of the PanicPanike MonsterPošast --
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In Opica - spomnite se,
Panične Pošasti se boji -
bum, gre na drevo!
09:30
boomboom, he's up the treedrevo!
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09:31
And finallykončno,
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In končno,
09:32
finallykončno, the RationalRacionalno Decision-MakerOdločevalec
can take the wheelkolo
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Racionalni Odločevalec
lahko prevzame krmilo
in jaz lahko začnem delati na govoru.
09:35
and I can startZačni workingdelo on the talk.
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09:37
Now, the PanicPanike MonsterPošast explainspojasnjuje
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Panična pošast pojasni
09:39
all kindsvrste of prettylepa insanenoro
procrastinatorOklijevalo behaviorvedenje,
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vse vrste precej norega
odlaševalskega obnašanja,
09:43
like how someonenekdo like me
could spendporabiti two weekstednih
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kako nekdo kot jaz dva tedna
09:45
unablene morem to startZačni the openingodprtje
sentencestavek of a paperpapir,
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ne more napisati uvodnega stavka,
09:49
and then miraculouslyčudežno find
the unbelievableneverjetno work ethicetiko
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in nato čudežno najde
neverjetno delovno vnemo,
09:52
to stayostani up all night
and writepiši eightosem pagesstrani.
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da je pokonci celo noč in napiše 8 strani.
09:56
And this entirecelotno situationsituacija,
with the threetri charactersznakov --
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In ta celotna situacija
s temi tremi karakterji -
09:59
this is the procrastinator'sOklijevalo osebe systemsistem.
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to je odlašalčev sistem.
10:02
It's not prettylepa, but in the endkonec, it worksdela.
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Ni lepo, a na koncu deluje.
10:05
This is what I decidedodločil to writepiši about
on the blogblog a couplepar of yearslet agonazaj.
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O tem sem se odločil
pisati na blogu pred nekaj leti.
10:09
When I did, I was amazedpresenečen by the responseodziv.
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In ko sem, me je izredno presenetil odziv.
10:12
LiterallyDobesedno thousandstisoče of emailse-pošto cameprišel in,
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Dobesedno na tisoče e-mailov sem dobil,
10:14
from all differentdrugačen kindsvrste of people
from all over the worldsvet,
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od različnih ljudi z vsega sveta,
ki so počeli različne stvari.
10:17
doing all differentdrugačen kindsvrste of things.
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Ljudje kot so medicinske sestre,
bankirji, slikarji inženirji
10:19
These are people who were nursesmedicinske sestre,
bankersbankirji, paintersslikarji, engineersinženirji
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10:22
and lots and lots of PhDPhD studentsštudenti.
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in veliko in veliko doktorskih študentov.
10:24
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
10:26
And they were all writingpisanje,
sayinggovoriti the sameenako thing:
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In vsi so mi pisali, rekoč enako:
"Tudi jaz imam ta problem."
10:29
"I have this problemproblem too."
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10:31
But what struckudaril me was the contrastkontrast
betweenmed the lightsvetloba toneton of the postpost
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A kar me je res zadelo, je bil kontrast
med lahkotnostjo moje objave
10:34
and the heavinessteže of these emailse-pošto.
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in težo teh pisem.
10:36
These people were writingpisanje
with intenseintenzivno frustrationfrustracije
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Ti ljudje so mi pisali
z intenzivno frustracijo,
10:40
about what procrastinationodlašanje
had doneKončano to theirnjihovi livesživi,
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kaj je odlašanje naredilo
z njihovimi življenji,
10:42
about what this MonkeyOpica had doneKončano to them.
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kaj jim je naredila ta Opica.
10:46
And I thought about this, and I said,
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Razmislil sem o tem in dejal,
10:49
well, if the procrastinator'sOklijevalo osebe systemsistem
worksdela, then what's going on?
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no, če odlašalčev sistem deluje,
kaj se potem dogaja?
10:53
Why are all of these people
in suchtako a darktemno placemesto?
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Zakaj so vsi ti ljudje
v tako slabem stanju?
10:55
Well, it turnszavrti out that there's
two kindsvrste of procrastinationodlašanje.
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Izkaže se, da obstajata
dve vrsti odlašanja.
Vse, o čemer sem govoril danes,
primeri, ki sem jih podal, vsi imajo roke.
10:59
Everything I've talkedgovoril about todaydanes,
the examplesprimeri I've givendan,
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11:02
they all have deadlinesroki.
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In ko so tu roki,
so učinki odlašanja omejeni na kratek čas,
11:04
And when there's deadlinesroki,
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11:05
the effectsučinke of procrastinationodlašanje
are containedvsebovane to the shortkratek termdolgoročno
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saj se vplete Panična Pošast.
11:08
because the PanicPanike MonsterPošast getsdobi involvedvključeni.
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A tu je še druga vrsta odlašanja,
11:10
But there's a seconddrugič kindvrste
of procrastinationodlašanje
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ki se zgodi v situacijah, ko roka ni.
11:12
that happensse zgodi in situationssituacije
when there is no deadlinerok.
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11:14
So if you wanted a careerkariero
where you're a self-starterself-starter --
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Če si torej želite kariere,
kjer morate začeti sami -
11:17
something in the artsumetnosti,
something entrepreneurialpodjetniške --
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kaj v umetnosti, kaj podjetniškega -
11:19
there's no deadlinesroki on those things
at first, because nothing'snič ni happeningdogaja,
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tu na začetku ni nobenega roka,
ker se sprva nič ne dogaja,
11:23
not untildo you've goneizginil out
and doneKončano the hardtežko work
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ne, dokler ne greš
in opraviš težkega dela,
da se stvari začnejo premikati.
11:25
to get momentumzagon, get things going.
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11:27
There's alsotudi all kindsvrste of importantpomembno things
outsidezunaj of your careerkariero
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Tu so tudi vse vrste pomembnih
stvari izven kariere,
ki nimajo nobenih rokov,
11:30
that don't involvevključujejo any deadlinesroki,
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kot naprimer obisk družine
ali telovadba in skrb za zdravje,
11:32
like seeingvidenje your familydružina or exercisinguveljavljajo
and takingjemanje carenego of your healthzdravje,
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ali skrb za odnos,
11:35
workingdelo on your relationshiprazmerje
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11:36
or gettingpridobivanje out of a relationshiprazmerje
that isn't workingdelo.
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ali pa zaključiti z razmerjem,
ki ne deluje.
11:39
Now if the procrastinator'sOklijevalo osebe only mechanismmehanizem
of doing these hardtežko things
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Če je odlašalčev edini mehanizem,
da naredi te stvari,
11:44
is the PanicPanike MonsterPošast, that's a problemproblem,
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Panična pošast, je to težava,
11:46
because in all of these
non-deadlinerok situationssituacije,
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ker se v vseh teh situacijah brez roka
11:49
the PanicPanike MonsterPošast doesn't showshow up.
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Panična Pošast ne pojavi.
11:51
He has nothing to wakezbudi se up for,
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Ni se mu treba zbuditi,
11:52
so the effectsučinke of procrastinationodlašanje,
they're not containedvsebovane;
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zato učinki odlašanja niso omejeni;
raztezajo se v večnost.
11:55
they just extendrazširiti outwardnavzven foreverza vedno.
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11:57
And it's this long-termdolgoročno
kindvrste of procrastinationodlašanje
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In to je dolgoročna vrsta odlašanja,
12:00
that's much lessmanj visiblevidno
and much lessmanj talkedgovoril about
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ki je manj vidna in se o njej manj govori,
12:03
than the funnierzabavno, short-termkratkoročno
deadline-basedrok, ki temelji kindvrste.
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kot o tisti bolj smešni,
ki se pojavi pri zadevah z rokom.
12:06
It's usuallyobičajno sufferedtrpel
quietlytiho and privatelyzasebno.
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Ponavadi se v njej trpi tiho in zasebno.
12:10
And it can be the sourcevir
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In lahko je vir
12:11
of a hugeogromno amountznesek of long-termdolgoročno
unhappinessnesreče, and regretsobžaluje.
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velike dolgotrajne nesreče in obžalovanj.
12:16
And I thought, that's why
those people are emailingpošiljanje,
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In pomislil sem, zato mi ti ljudje pišejo
12:19
and that's why they're
in suchtako a badslab placemesto.
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in zato so v tako slabem stanju.
12:21
It's not that they're crammingcramming
for some projectprojekt.
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Ne hitijo z nekim projektom.
12:24
It's that long-termdolgoročno procrastinationodlašanje
has madeizdelane them feel like a spectatorgledalec,
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Zaradi tega dolgotrajnega odlašanja
se včasih počutijo kot opazovalec
12:28
at timeskrat, in theirnjihovi ownlastno livesživi.
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v lastnem življenju.
12:30
The frustrationfrustracije is not
that they couldn'tni mogel achievedoseči theirnjihovi dreamssanje;
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Frustracija ni v tem,
da niso mogli doseči svojih sanj,
12:33
it's that they weren'tni bilo even
ablesposoben to startZačni chasingloviti them.
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niso jih bili sposobni
niti začeti preganjati.
12:36
So I readpreberite these emailse-pošto
and I had a little bitbit of an epiphanyRazodetje --
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Ko sem bral vsa ta pisma,
sem imel malo razodetje -
12:42
that I don't think
non-procrastinatorsprocrastinators existobstajajo.
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menim, da ne-odlašalci ne obstajajo.
12:45
That's right -- I think all of you
are procrastinatorsprocrastinators.
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Tako je - menim, da ste vsi odlašalci.
12:49
Now, you mightmorda not all be a messnered,
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Morda niste taka zmešnjava
12:51
like some of us,
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kot nekateri izmed nas,
12:53
(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
12:54
and some of you maylahko have
a healthyzdravo relationshiprazmerje with deadlinesroki,
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in morda imate nekateri
zdravo razmerje z roki,
12:58
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I call this a Life CalendarKoledar.
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Temu pravim življenjski koledar.
13:08
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jih kar nekaj porabili.
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So I think we need to all take a long,
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because everyonevsi is procrastinatingodlašanje
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ker vsak odlaša z nečim v življenju.
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We need to stayostani awarese zaveda
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That's a jobdelo for all of us.
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13:40
And because there's not
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13:42
it's a jobdelo that should
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moramo s tem začeti danes.
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Well, maybe not todaydanes, but ...
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(LaughterSmeh)
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13:49
You know.
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Saj veste.
13:51
SometimeBivši soonkmalu.
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Enkrat kmalu.
13:53
Thank you.
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Hvala.
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(ApplauseAplavz)
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(Aplavz)
Translated by Nika Kotnik
Reviewed by Matej Divjak

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