TEDMED 2011
AJ Jacobs: How healthy living nearly killed me
A.J. Jacobs: Kako me je zdravo življenje skoraj ubilo
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A.J. Jacobs je vse leto sledil vsem nasvetom za zdravo življenje, ki jim je lahko -- od uporabe kreme za sončenje z merico za žgane pijače do nošnje kolesarske čelade med nakupovanjem. Na odru TEDMED predstavi presenetljive reči, ki se jih je naučil.
AJ Jacobs - Author
Immersing himself in alternate lifestyles and long, hilarious experiments (usually with himself the guinea pig), writer AJ Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture, knowledge -- and his wife's sense of humor. Full bio
Immersing himself in alternate lifestyles and long, hilarious experiments (usually with himself the guinea pig), writer AJ Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture, knowledge -- and his wife's sense of humor. Full bio
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I've spent the last decade
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Zadnje desetletje sem se
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subjecting myself to pain and humiliation,
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predajal bolečini in ponižanju,
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hopefully for a good cause,
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upam, da v dober namen,
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which is self-improvement.
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kar je izboljšanje samega sebe.
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And I've done this in three parts.
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In to sem napravil v treh delih.
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So first I started with the mind.
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Začel sem z umom.
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And I decided to try to get smarter
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In odločil sem se, da postanem pametnejši,
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by reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica
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tako da preberem celotno Enciklopedijo Britannica
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from A to Z --
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od A do Ž,
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or, more precisely, from "a-ak" to "Zywiec."
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ali, bolj natančno, od "a-ak" do "Zywiec".
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And here's a little image of that.
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Tule je majhna ponazoritev.
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And this was an amazing year.
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To je bilo neverjetno leto.
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It was really a fascinating journey.
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Res je bilo krasno potovanje.
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It was painful at times,
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Včasih je bilo boleče,
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especially for those around me.
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posebej za tiste okoli mene.
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My wife started to fine me one dollar
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Moja žena me je oglobila za en dolar vsakič,
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for every irrelevant fact I inserted into conversation.
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ko sem v pogovor vstavil kakšno nepomembno dejstvo.
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So it had its downsides.
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Imelo je torej svoje slabosti.
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But after that,
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Ampak zatem
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I decided to work on the spirit.
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sem se odločil za delo na duhu.
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As I mentioned last year,
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Kot sem lani omenil,
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I grew up with no religion at all.
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sem odrasel brez vsake vere.
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I'm Jewish,
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Žid sem,
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but I'm Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is Italian.
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ampak v taki meri kot je prehranska veriga Olive Garden italijanska.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
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Not really.
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Niti ne.
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But I decided to learn about the Bible and my heritage
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A odločil sem se, da se poučim o Bibliji in svoji dediščini,
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by actually diving in
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tako da bi dejansko padel noter
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and trying to live it and immerse myself in it.
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in poskušal to živeti, se vtopiti v to.
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So I decided to follow all the rules of the Bible.
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Odločil sem se slediti vsem pravilom iz Biblije.
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And from the Ten Commandments
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Od desetih zapovedi,
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to growing my beard --
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do puščanja brade --
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because Leviticus says you cannot shave.
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saj Knjiga Levitov pravi, da se ne smeš briti.
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So this is what I looked like by the end.
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Tako sem torej izgledal na koncu.
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Thank you for that reaction.
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Hvala za tole reakcijo.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
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I look a little like Moses, or Ted Kaczynski.
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Izgledam nekako kot Mojzes ali kot Ted Kaczynski.
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I got both of them.
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Oba sem ujel.
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So there was the topiary there.
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Tole je moj oblikovani grm.
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And there's the sheep.
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In tule je ovca.
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Now the final part of the trilogy
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Zadnji del trilogije
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was I wanted to focus on the body
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je bilo osredotočenje na telo
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and try to be the healthiest person I could be,
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in poskus biti najbolj zdrav človek, kar sem lahko,
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the healthiest person alive.
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najbolj zdrav živeči človek.
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So that's what I've been doing the last couple of years.
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To sem torej počel zadnja leta.
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And I just finished a couple of months ago.
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Končalo se je komaj pred nekaj meseci.
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And I have to say, thank God.
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In moram reči -- hvala Bogu.
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Because living so healthily was killing me.
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Kajti tako zdravo življenje me je ubijalo.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
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It was so overwhelming,
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Bilo je tako vseobsežno,
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because the amount of things you have to do,
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zaradi količine stvari, ki sem jih moral narediti,
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it's just mind-boggling.
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čisto me je prevzelo.
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I was listening to all the experts
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Poslušal sem vse strokovnjake
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and talking to sort of a board of medical advisers.
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in govoril z nekakšnim svetom zdravstvenih svetovalcev.
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And they were telling me
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In oni so mi naročali,
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all the things I had to do.
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kaj vse moram narediti.
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I had to eat right,
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Moral sem prav jesti,
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exercise, meditate, pet dogs,
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se ukvarjati s športom, meditirati, ljubkovati pse,
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because that lowers the blood pressure.
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ker to znižuje krvni tlak.
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I wrote the book on a treadmill,
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Knjigo sem napisal na tekalni stezi
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and it took me about a thousand miles
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in potreboval sem kakih tisoč milj,
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to write the book.
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da sem jo dokončal.
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I had to put on sunscreen.
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Moral sem nanašati kremo za sončenje.
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This was no small feat,
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To ni bila mala malica,
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because if you listen to dermatologists,
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kajti če poslušate dermatologe,
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they say that you should have a shot glass full of sunscreen.
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pravijo, da morate nanesti za poln kozarček kreme.
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And you have to reapply it every two to four hours.
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In to morate ponoviti vsaki dve do štiri ure.
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So I think half of my book advance
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Mislim, da je pol mojega predujma za knjigo
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went into sunscreen.
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šlo za kremo za sončenje.
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I was like a glazed doughnut
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Večino leta
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for most of the year.
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sem bil kot glaziran krof.
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There was the washing of hands.
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Treba si je bilo umivati roke.
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I had to do that properly.
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In to pravilno.
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And my immunologist told me
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Moj imunolog mi je naročil,
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that I should also wipe down
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naj obrišem tudi
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all of the remote controls and iPhones in my house,
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vse daljince in iPhone v hiši,
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because those are just orgies of germs.
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saj so to orgije mikrobov.
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So that took a lot of time.
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To je vzelo veliko časa.
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I also tried to be the safest person I could be,
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Skušal sem biti tudi najvarnejša možna oseba,
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because that's a part of health.
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saj je to del zdravja.
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I was inspired
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Navdihnil me je
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by the Danish Safety Council.
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Danski svet za zdravje.
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They started a public campaign
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Začeli so z javno kampanjo,
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that says, "A walking helmet is a good helmet."
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ki pravi: "Hodeča čelada je dobra čelada."
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So they believe you should not just wear helmets for biking,
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Verjamejo, da bi morali nositi čelado ne samo med kolesarjenjem,
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but also for walking around.
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ampak tudi med hojo.
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And you can see there
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In tu lahko vidite,
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they're shopping with their helmets.
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da nakupujejo s čeladami.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
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Well yeah, I tried that.
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Ja, poskusil sem.
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Now it's a little extreme, I admit.
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Je pa malo skrajno, priznam.
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But if you think about this,
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A če razmislite,
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this is actually -- the "Freakonomics" authors wrote about this --
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to je v bistvu -- in avtorji Freakonomike so pisali o tem --
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that more people die on a per mile basis
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več ljudi, merjeno na miljo,
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from drunk walking
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umre med hojo v stanju opitosti
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than from drunk driving.
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kot med vožnjo v opitem stanju.
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So something to think about tonight
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Nekaj, o čemer velja razmisliti,
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if you've had a couple.
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če boste nocoj spili kozarec ali dva.
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So I finished,
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Končal sem torej,
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and it was a success in a sense.
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in v nekem smislu uspešno.
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All of the markers went in the right direction.
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Vsi znaki so kazali v pravo smer.
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My cholesterol went down, I lost weight,
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Moj holesterol se je znižal, shujšal sem,
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my wife stopped telling me that I looked pregnant.
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moja žena mi je nehala govoriti, da izgledam kot nosečnica.
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So that was nice.
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To je bilo lepo.
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And it was successful overall.
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In v splošnem je bilo uspešno.
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But I also learned that I was too healthy,
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Ampak spoznal sem tudi, da sem bil preveč zdrav
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and that was unhealthy.
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in da to ni bilo zdravo.
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I was so focused on doing all these things
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Tako sem bil osredotočen na vse te stvari,
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that I was neglecting my friends and family.
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da sem zapostavil prijatelje in družino.
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And as Dan Buettner can tell you,
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Kot vam lahko pove Dan Buettner,
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having a strong social network
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je močno socialno omrežje
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is so crucial to our health.
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bistveno za zdravje.
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So I finished.
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Zato sem nehal.
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And I kind of went overboard
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In teden po končanem projektu
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on the week after the project was over.
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sem nekako pretiraval.
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I went to the dark side,
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Šel sem na temno stran
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and I just indulged myself.
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in enostavno užival.
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It was like something out of Caligula.
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Bilo je kot nekaj iz Kaligule.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
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Without the sex part.
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Brez dela o seksu.
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Because I have three young kids,
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Kajti imam tri majhne otroke,
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so that wasn't happening.
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zato se to ni dogajalo.
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But the over-eating and over-drinking, definitely.
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Prenajedanje in pretirano pitje pa definitivno.
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And I finally have stabilized.
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In končno sem se stabiliziral.
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So now I'm back
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Zdaj spet
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to adopting many -- not all; I don't wear a helmet anymore --
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živim po mnogih -- ne vseh, čelade ne nosim več --
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but dozens of healthy behaviors
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ampak na ducate zdravih pristopov,
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that I adopted during my year.
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po katerih sem živel v tem letu.
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It was really a life-changing project.
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Projekt mi je res spremenil življenje.
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And I, of course, don't have time to go into all of them.
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In seveda ne morem iti v podrobnosti o vseh stvareh.
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Let me just tell you two really quickly.
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Naj vam na hitro povem samo dve.
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The first is -- and this was surprising to me;
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Prva -- in to me je presenetilo,
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I didn't expect this to come out --
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nisem pričakoval tega rezultata --
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but I live a much quieter life now.
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ampak zdaj živim veliko bolj tiho.
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Because we live in such a noisy world.
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Kajti živimo v tako hrupnem svetu.
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There's trains and planes and cars
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Vlaki in letala in avtomobili
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and Bill O'Reilly, he's very noisy.
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in Bill O'Reilly, on je zelo glasen.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
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And this is a real underestimated, under-appreciated health hazard --
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To je res podcenjena in neupoštevana grožnja za zdravje --
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not just because it harms our hearing, which it obviously does,
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ne samo zato, ker škoduje sluhu, kar je seveda res,
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but it actually initiates
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ampak ker dejansko sproža
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the fight-or-flight response.
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reakcijo boj-ali-beg.
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A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going.
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Velik hrup sproži vašo reakcijo boj-ali-beg.
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And this, over the years,
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In to skozi leta
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can cause real damage, cardiovascular damage.
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lahko povzroči pravo škodo, srčno-žilne težave.
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The World Health Organization just did a big study
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Svetovna zdravstvena organizacija je ravno
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that they published this year.
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letos objavila veliko študijo.
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And it was done in Europe.
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In naredili so jo v Evropi.
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And they estimated
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Ocenili so,
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that 1.6 million years of healthy living
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da v Evropi vsako leto izgubijo
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are lost every year in Europe
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1,6 milijona let zdravega življenja,
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because of noise pollution.
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in to zaradi onesnaženja s hrupom.
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So they think it's actually very deadly.
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Mislijo torej, da je pravzaprav dokaj morilsko.
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And by the way,
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In poleg tega
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it's also terrible for your brain.
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je tudi strašno za možgane.
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It really impairs cognition.
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Res omejuje kognicijo.
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And our Founding Fathers knew about this.
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Tudi naši ustanovni očetje so to vedeli.
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When they wrote the Constitution,
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Ko so pisali ustavo,
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they put dirt all over the cobblestones outside the hall
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so po vseh kamnitih pločnikih zunaj dvorane posuli prst,
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so that they could concentrate.
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da bi se lahko koncentrirali.
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So without noise reduction technology,
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Brez tehnologije omejevanja hrupa
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our country would not exist.
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naša država torej ne bi obstajala.
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So as a patriot,
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Kot patriot
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I felt it was important to --
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sem menil, da je bilo pomembno --
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I wear all the earplugs and the earphones,
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nosim čepke za ušesa in slušalke
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and it's really improved my life
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in to je res izboljšalo moje življenje
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in a surprising and unexpected way.
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na presenetljiv in nepričakovan način.
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And the second point I want to make, the final point,
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Druga stvar, zadnja, ki bi jo rad omenil, pa je --
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is that -- and it's actually been a theme of TEDMED --
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in to je že bila tema TEDMED --
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that joy is so important to your health,
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da je veselje tako pomembno za zdravje,
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that very few of these behaviors
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da bo zelo malo vzorcev obnašanja
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will stick with me
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ostalo v mojem življenju,
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unless there's some sense of pleasure and joy in them.
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če v njih ne bo neke mere užitka in veselja.
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And just to give you one instance of this:
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Naj vam dam samo en primer:
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food.
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hrana.
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The junk food industry
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Industrija nezdrave hrane
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is really great
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je res odlična
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at pressing our pleasure buttons
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pri zadovoljevanju naših potreb po užitku
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and figuring out what's the most pleasurable.
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in ugotavljanju, v čem najbolj uživamo.
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But I think we can use their techniques
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A mislim, da lahko njihove tehnike
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and apply them to healthy food.
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uporabimo tudi pri zdravi hrani.
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To give just one example,
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En sam primer,
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we love crunchiness, mouthfeel.
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uživamo v hrustljavosti, polnosti.
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So I basically have tried to incorporate crunchiness
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Hrustljavost tako skušam vključiti
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into a lot of my recipes --
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v veliko svojih receptov --
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throw in some sunflower seeds.
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dodam jim malo sončničnih semen.
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And you can almost trick yourself
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Skoraj se lahko prepričam,
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into thinking you're eating Doritos.
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da jem čips.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
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And it has made me a healthier person.
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In postal sem bolj zdrav.
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So that is it.
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To je to.
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The book about it comes out in April.
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Knjiga izide aprila.
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It's called "Drop Dead Healthy."
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Imenuje se "Crkni zdrav."
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And I hope that I don't get sick during the book tour.
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Upam, da med turnejo ne bom zbolel.
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That's my greatest hope.
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To je moje največje upanje.
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So thank you very much.
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Hvala vam lepa.
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(Applause)
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(Aplavz)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
AJ Jacobs - AuthorImmersing himself in alternate lifestyles and long, hilarious experiments (usually with himself the guinea pig), writer AJ Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture, knowledge -- and his wife's sense of humor.
Why you should listen
AJ Jacobs' writings stand at the intersection of philosophy, Gonzo journalism and performance art. Stubbornly curious and slyly perceptive, he takes immersive learning to its irrational and profoundly amusing extreme -- extracting wisdom and meaning after long stints as a self-styled guinea pig. For his widely circulated Esquire article "My Outsourced Life," he explored the phenomenon of outsourcing by hiring a team in Bangalore to take care of every part of his life -- from reading his emails to arguing with his wife to reading bedtime stories to his own son. A previous article, "I Think You're Fat," chronicled a brief, cringe-inducing attempt to live his life in Radical Honesty, telling all the truth, all the time.
Jacobs is author of The Know-It-All, which documents the year he spent reading the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z, uncovering both funny and surprising factoids but also poignant insight into history and human nature. In 2007 he released The Year of Living Biblically, in which he attempted to follow every single rule in the Bible as literally as possible for an entire year. His recent book The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment is a collection of numerous personal experiments. including living according to George Washington's rules of conduct, outsourcing every single task to India, and posing as a woman on an online dating site.
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