Tim Harford: How frustration can make us more creative
Tim Harford: Cum pot problemele să stimuleze creativitatea
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called Vera Brandes
pe nume Vera Brandes
of the Cologne Opera House.
de la Cologne Opera House.
of the emergency exit sign.
de la semnul pentru ieşirea de urgenţă.
exciting day of Vera's life.
din viaţa Verei.
concert promoter in Germany,
de concerte din Germania
the Cologne Opera House
pe cei de la Cologne Opera House
un concert de jazz
to the piano in question,
a little warily,
came over to Vera and said ...
Keith can't play."
Keith nu va putea cânta."
the wrong instrument.
instrumentul greşit.
tinny upper register,
dur, metalic,
such as the Cologne Opera House.
ca cel de la Cologne Opera House.
to try to find a replacement piano.
un alt pian.
rain-drenched German teenager,
udă leoarcă,
Doar pentru tine."
onto the stage of the opera house,
that something magical was happening.
că se-ntâmpla ceva magic.
those upper registers,
tones of the keyboard,
ale clapelor,
a soothing, ambient quality.
liniştitoare, ambientală.
repetitive riffs in the bass.
zgomotoase, repetitive în bas.
pounding down on the keys,
to reach the people in the back row.
volum să ajungă la cei din ultimul rând.
Concertului din Köln
din istorie
solo jazz album in history.
solo de jazz din istorie.
şi acesta şi-a luat zborul.
about Jarrett's initial instinct.
la insinctul iniţial al lui Jarrett.
in any remotely similar situation,
fiecare dintre noi
we'd have the same instinct.
am avea acelaşi instinct.
to do good work with bad tools.
un lucru bun cu scule proaste.
unnecessary hurdles.
obstacole inutile.
a bit more appreciation
apreciem mai mult
of having to cope with a little mess.
nevoia de a depăşi mici obstacole.
to some of their classes.
in something straightforward,
cu ceva simplu,
handouts that were formatted
primeau fişe formatate
like Haettenschweiler,
like Comic Sans italicized.
precum Comic Sans italicizat.
to read the more difficult fonts,
fonturile mai dificile
about what they were reading,
has been testing Harvard undergraduates
studenții de la Harvard
of their attentional filters.
imagine you're in a restaurant,
într-un restaurant,
going on in the restaurant,
în restaurant,
on what's important to you.
pe ce e important.
good, strong attentional filters.
bune, puternice.
subjects struggled with that.
au avut probleme.
they had porous filters --
constantly being interrupted
of the world around them.
while they were doing their essays,
în timp ce-și scriau eseurile,
that that was a disadvantage ...
these students had achieved,
la ce realizaseră acești studenți,
creative milestone in their lives,
în viața lor,
grists to their creative mill.
apă la moara lor creativă.
because their box was full of holes.
deorece ‘tiparul’ lor era găurit tot.
of complicated problems --
a really complicated problem?
cu adevărat complicată?
un motor cu reacție.
of different variables,
of problem all in one go,
dintr-o dată,
is try to solve it step-by-step.
e să încerci să o rezolvi pas cu pas.
you test it, you improve it.
îl îmbunătățești.
îl îmbunătățești.
will eventually get you a good jet engine.
îți va aduce un motor cu reacție bun.
implemented in the world.
in high performance cycling,
în ciclismul de performanță, de exemplu,
to optimize their web pages,
de a-și optimiza paginile,
for these step-by-step gains.
to solve a complicated problem.
o situație complicată.
make it a better way?
care nu ar trebui să funcționeze
the problem-solving work better.
a problemei mai bună.
gradually down a dead end.
that becomes less likely,
devine mai puțin probabil,
becomes more robust.
with some colleagues,
împreună cu câțiva colegi,
problems to some students,
să dezlege misterele unor crime,
were collected in groups of four
with information about a crime --
despre o crimă --
witness statements and three suspects.
declarații ale martorilor și 3 suspecți.
were asked to figure out who did it,
să afle cine e făptașul,
in this experiment.
solved the problem more effectively,
au rezolvat problema mai eficient,
quite a lot more effectively.
mult mai eficient.
of getting the answer right.
50-50's not good.
50-50 nu e bine.
didn't have any extra information,
informații suplimentare,
to accommodate that awkwardness,
pentru a depăşi stânjeneala,
of finding the right answer.
să găsească răspunsul corect.
and the stranger did a better job,
au făcut o treabă mai bună,
interviewed the groups of four friends,
a intervievat grupurile de patru prieteni,
friends and the stranger,
it's rather awkward ...
era ciudat ...
even though they had.
deşi nu era aşa.
dealing with here.
să rezolvăm probleme,
getting in the way ...
is really important.
ultimul exemplu.
of the world of rock 'n' roll.
he's actually a TED-ster.
rather brilliant.
e genial.
rock 'n' roll albums of the last 40 years.
albume rock 'n' roll din ultimii 40 ani.
and "The Joshua Tree,"
și „The Joshua Tree”,
he's worked with everybody.
these great rock bands better?
trupele astea mari ?
the unplayable piano.
la care nu se poate cânta.
in which he creates this disruption
în care crează această perturbare
deck of cards --
pachet de cartonașe --
thank you, Brian.
mulțumesc, Brian.
follow the instructions on the card.
instrucțiunile de pe cartonaș.
Drummer on the piano --
Toboșarul la pian --
embarrassing details. Amplify them."
detalii. Amplificați-le.”
unpredictable action. Incorporate."
imprevizibil. Încorporați.”
in album after album.
în album după album.
on an early Brian Eno album.
într-un album de început al lui Brian Eno.
throwing beer cans across the studio.
să arunce cu doze de bere prin studio.
on David Bowie's "Lodger" album,
lui David Bowie, „Lodger”,
he turns to Brian and says,
spre Brian și spune:
it was a pretty good album,
now uses The Oblique Strategies.
folosește Strategiile Oblice.
to use The Oblique Strategies
să folosească Strategiile Oblice
doesn't mean it isn't helping you.
nu însemnă că nu ți-e de ajutor.
weren't a deck of cards originally,
un pachet de cartonașe,
you might try if you got stuck.
dacă rămâi blocat.
was the least disruptive,
cel mai puțin deranjant.
the stupid experiments,
alea stupide,
with the awkward strangers,
if we're going to accept this.
dacă e să acceptăm asta.
from a German teenager,
te face să te simţi vinovat,
the unplayable piano.
la pianul inutilizabil.
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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