Tim Harford: How frustration can make us more creative
Tim Harford: Hogyan tesz a frusztráció kreatívabbá?
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called Vera Brandes
of the Cologne Opera House.
of the emergency exit sign.
jelző lámpa égett halványan.
exciting day of Vera's life.
legizgalmasabb napja.
concert promoter in Germany,
koncertszervezője volt ekkor,
the Cologne Opera House
Kölni Operaházat,
egy éjszakai jazzkoncertnek
előadásában.
to the piano in question,
zongorával ismerkedett,
a little warily,
méregette a hangszert,
came over to Vera and said ...
és azt mondta:
Keith can't play."
Keith nem lép fel ma este."
the wrong instrument.
tinny upper register,
fülsértő hangon szóltak,
such as the Cologne Opera House.
a Kölni Operaház nézőterét.
to try to find a replacement piano.
hogy ne mondja le a koncertet.
rain-drenched German teenager,
onto the stage of the opera house,
az Operaház színpadán,
that something magical was happening.
hogy csoda születik.
those upper registers,
magas regisztereket,
tones of the keyboard,
tartományán játszott,
a soothing, ambient quality.
kölcsönzött a darabnak.
repetitive riffs in the bass.
ismétlődő, aláfestő motívumait.
pounding down on the keys,
és úgy csapott le a billentyűkre,
to reach the people in the back row.
kiadni, hogy a hátsó sorokhoz is eljusson.
eladott zongoraalbum
solo jazz album in history.
about Jarrett's initial instinct.
Jarrett első megérzésére.
in any remotely similar situation,
we'd have the same instinct.
ugyanez súgná az ösztönünk.
to do good work with bad tools.
tőlünk vacak szerszámokkal.
unnecessary hurdles.
bajlódni.
a bit more appreciation
értékelnünk a váratlan előnyöket,
of having to cope with a little mess.
zűrzavarral kell megküzdenünk.
to some of their classes.
in something straightforward,
egyszerű betűtípussal szedték,
handouts that were formatted
szedett anyagot kapott,
like Haettenschweiler,
pl. Haettenschweiler,
like Comic Sans italicized.
kaptak, pl. dőltbetűs Comic Sans.
to read the more difficult fonts,
olvasható jegyzetből tanultak,
lelassította őket,
about what they were reading,
has been testing Harvard undergraduates
szelektív figyelmét tesztelte.
of their attentional filters.
imagine you're in a restaurant,
going on in the restaurant,
on what's important to you.
erős a figyelemszűrőjük.
good, strong attentional filters.
subjects struggled with that.
küszködött ezzel.
they had porous filters --
constantly being interrupted
of the world around them.
while they were doing their essays,
that that was a disadvantage ...
ez hátrányt jelentett...
these students had achieved,
a vizsgált diákok eredménye,
creative milestone in their lives,
érjenek életükben:
grists to their creative mill.
a kreativitásuk malmára hajtották a vizet.
because their box was full of holes.
mert "dobozuk" csupa lyuk volt.
of complicated problems --
a really complicated problem?
próbálunk készíteni,
of different variables,
of problem all in one go,
egy nekifutással megoldani,
is try to solve it step-by-step.
you test it, you improve it.
will eventually get you a good jet engine.
egy jó sugárhajtóművet eredményez.
implemented in the world.
in high performance cycling,
to optimize their web pages,
amikor optimalizálják weboldalaikat;
for these step-by-step gains.
to solve a complicated problem.
bonyolult feladatok megoldására.
make it a better way?
amik nem működhetnének,
the problem-solving work better.
a problémamegoldás eredményességét.
gradually down a dead end.
zsákutcába juttathatnak.
that becomes less likely,
bevetjük, ennek kisebb az esélye,
becomes more robust.
szilárdabb lábakon fog állni.
with some colleagues,
pár kollégájával
problems to some students,
adott fel egyetemistáknak megoldásra.
were collected in groups of four
with information about a crime --
gyilkosság információs aktáját
witness statements and three suspects.
tanúvallomásokkal és három gyanúsítottal.
were asked to figure out who did it,
ki kellett találniuk, ki tette,
in this experiment.
solved the problem more effectively,
hatékonyabban oldották meg a feladatot,
quite a lot more effectively.
of getting the answer right.
50-50's not good.
az 50%-os találat nem túl jó.
didn't have any extra information,
nem volt többletinformációja,
to accommodate that awkwardness,
hogy kakukktojás van a csoportban,
of finding the right answer.
a helyes válaszra.
and the stranger did a better job,
jobban működött,
interviewed the groups of four friends,
a barát-csoportok azt mondták:
friends and the stranger,
it's rather awkward ...
elég kínos helyzet –,
even though they had.
végeztek, még ha így volt is.
dealing with here.
a problémamegoldásban,
getting in the way ...
is really important.
említett kutatási terület.
of the world of rock 'n' roll.
he's actually a TED-ster.
rather brilliant.
méghozzá igen kiváló.
rock 'n' roll albums of the last 40 years.
rock 'n' roll albumainak.
and "The Joshua Tree,"
és a "Joshua Tree"-n,
he's worked with everybody.
these great rock bands better?
még jobbak legyenek?
the unplayable piano.
kell játszaniuk.
in which he creates this disruption
egyik eszköze
deck of cards --
thank you, Brian.
köszönöm, Brian.
follow the instructions on the card.
a kártyán lévő utasításokat.
Drummer on the piano --
a dobos ül a zongorához.
embarrassing details. Amplify them."
Nagyítsátok fel!"
unpredictable action. Incorporate."
váratlan húzást! Építsétek be!"
in album after album.
igazolta valódi értékét.
on an early Brian Eno album.
Phil Collins volt a dobos.
throwing beer cans across the studio.
elkezdett sörösdobozokat hajigálni .
on David Bowie's "Lodger" album,
dolgozva Enóval,
he turns to Brian and says,
it was a pretty good album,
egész jó lemez lett,
now uses The Oblique Strategies.
használja a "Kizökkentő stratégiák"-at.
to use The Oblique Strategies
a kártya használatára biztatja,
doesn't mean it isn't helping you.
nem jelenti azt, hogy nem segít.
weren't a deck of cards originally,
nem kártyaformát öltöttek,
you might try if you got stuck.
meg lehet próbálni, ha elakadnának.
was the least disruptive,
amelyik a legkevésbé zökkent ki,
az egészet a lényegtől.
the stupid experiments,
a hülye kísérletezgetések,
with the awkward strangers,
a ronda betűket.
if we're going to accept this.
egy kis hitre is.
from a German teenager,
the unplayable piano.
játszani azon a lehetetlen zongorán.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Tim Harford - Economist, journalist, broadcasterTim Harford's writings reveal the economic ideas behind everyday experiences.
Why you should listen
In the Undercover Economist column he writes for the Financial Times, Tim Harford looks at familiar situations in unfamiliar ways and explains the fundamental principles of the modern economy. He illuminates them with clear writing and a variety of examples borrowed from daily life.
His book, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure, argues that the world has become far too unpredictable and complex for today's challenges to be tackled with ready-made solutions and expert opinions. Instead, Harford suggests, we need to learn to embrace failure and to constantly adapt, to improvise rather than plan, to work from the bottom up rather than the top down. His next book, Messy: Thriving in a Tidy-Minded World will be published in September 2016.
Harford also presents the BBC radio series More or Less, a rare broadcast program devoted, as he says, to "the powerful, sometimes beautiful, often abused but ever ubiquitous world of numbers."
He says: "I’d like to see many more complex problems approached with a willingness to experiment."
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