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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.

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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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.
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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 spentpreživel the last decadedesetletje
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subjectingizpostavitvijo myselfjaz to painbolečina and humiliationponiževanje,
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predajal bolečini in ponižanju,
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hopefullyupajmo for a good causevzrok,
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upam, da v dober namen,
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whichki is self-improvementself-izboljšanje.
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kar je izboljšanje samega sebe.
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And I've doneKončano this in threetri partsdeli.
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In to sem napravil v treh delih.
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So first I startedzačel with the mindum.
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Začel sem z umom.
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And I decidedodločil to try to get smarterpametnejši
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In odločil sem se, da postanem pametnejši,
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by readingbranje the entirecelotno EncyclopediaEnciklopedija BritannicaBritannica
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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 preciselynatančno, from "a-aka-ak" to "ZywiecŻywiec."
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ali, bolj natančno, od "a-ak" do "Zywiec".
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And here'sTukaj je a little imagesliko of that.
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Tule je majhna ponazoritev.
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And this was an amazingneverjetno yearleto.
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To je bilo neverjetno leto.
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It was really a fascinatingfascinantno journeypotovanje.
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Res je bilo krasno potovanje.
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It was painfulboleče at timeskrat,
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Včasih je bilo boleče,
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especiallyše posebej for those around me.
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posebej za tiste okoli mene.
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My wifežena startedzačel to fine me one dollardolar
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Moja žena me je oglobila za en dolar vsakič,
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for everyvsak irrelevantnepomemben factdejstvo I insertedvstavi into conversationpogovor.
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ko sem v pogovor vstavil kakšno nepomembno dejstvo.
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So it had its downsidesslabosti.
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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 decidedodločil to work on the spiritduh.
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sem se odločil za delo na duhu.
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As I mentionedomenjeno last yearleto,
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Kot sem lani omenil,
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I grewnaraščal up with no religionreligija at all.
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sem odrasel brez vsake vere.
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I'm JewishJudovski,
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Žid sem,
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but I'm JewishJudovski in the sameenako way the OliveOljčno GardenVrt is Italianitalijanščina.
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ampak v taki meri kot je prehranska veriga Olive Garden italijanska.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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Not really.
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Niti ne.
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But I decidedodločil to learnučiti se about the BibleSveto pismo and my heritagedediščine
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A odločil sem se, da se poučim o Bibliji in svoji dediščini,
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by actuallydejansko divingpotapljanje in
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tako da bi dejansko padel noter
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and tryingposkušam to livev živo it and immersepotopite myselfjaz in it.
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in poskušal to živeti, se vtopiti v to.
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So I decidedodločil to followsledite all the rulespravila of the BibleSveto pismo.
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Odločil sem se slediti vsem pravilom iz Biblije.
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And from the TenDeset CommandmentsZapovedi
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Od desetih zapovedi,
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to growingrastoče my beardbrada --
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do puščanja brade --
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because LeviticusLeviticus sayspravi you cannotne morem shavebritje.
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saj Knjiga Levitov pravi, da se ne smeš briti.
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So this is what I lookedpogledal like by the endkonec.
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Tako sem torej izgledal na koncu.
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Thank you for that reactionreakcija.
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Hvala za tole reakcijo.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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I look a little like MosesMojzes, or TedTed KaczynskiKaczynski.
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Izgledam nekako kot Mojzes ali kot Ted Kaczynski.
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I got bothoboje of them.
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Oba sem ujel.
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So there was the topiaryugasne there.
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Tole je moj oblikovani grm.
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And there's the sheepovce.
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In tule je ovca.
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Now the finalkončno partdel of the trilogytrilogija
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Zadnji del trilogije
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was I wanted to focusosredotočiti on the bodytelo
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je bilo osredotočenje na telo
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and try to be the healthiestzdravo personoseba I could be,
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in poskus biti najbolj zdrav človek, kar sem lahko,
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the healthiestzdravo personoseba aliveživ.
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najbolj zdrav živeči človek.
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So that's what I've been doing the last couplepar of yearslet.
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To sem torej počel zadnja leta.
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And I just finishedkončal a couplepar of monthsmesecev agonazaj.
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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 livingživeti so healthilyzdravo was killingubijanje me.
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Kajti tako zdravo življenje me je ubijalo.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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It was so overwhelmingpreveč,
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Bilo je tako vseobsežno,
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because the amountznesek 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-bogglingum-boggling.
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čisto me je prevzelo.
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I was listeningposlušanje to all the expertsstrokovnjaki
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Poslušal sem vse strokovnjake
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and talkinggovoriti to sortRazvrsti of a boardtabla of medicalmedicinski adviserssvetovalci.
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in govoril z nekakšnim svetom zdravstvenih svetovalcev.
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And they were tellingpovedal 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 eatjesti right,
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Moral sem prav jesti,
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exercisevadba, meditatemeditirati, pethišne živali dogspsi,
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se ukvarjati s športom, meditirati, ljubkovati pse,
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because that lowersznižuje the bloodkri pressurepritisk.
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ker to znižuje krvni tlak.
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I wrotenapisal the bookknjigo on a treadmillDirinčenje,
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Knjigo sem napisal na tekalni stezi
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and it tookvzel me about a thousandtisoč milesmilje
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in potreboval sem kakih tisoč milj,
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to writepiši the bookknjigo.
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da sem jo dokončal.
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I had to put on sunscreenza zaščito pred soncem.
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Moral sem nanašati kremo za sončenje.
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This was no smallmajhna featfeat,
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To ni bila mala malica,
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because if you listen to dermatologistsdermatologi,
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kajti če poslušate dermatologe,
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they say that you should have a shotstrel glasssteklo fullpolno of sunscreenza zaščito pred soncem.
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pravijo, da morate nanesti za poln kozarček kreme.
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And you have to reapplyponovna uporaba it everyvsak two to fourštiri hoursure.
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In to morate ponoviti vsaki dve do štiri ure.
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So I think halfpol of my bookknjigo advancenapreduje
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Mislim, da je pol mojega predujma za knjigo
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wentšla into sunscreenza zaščito pred soncem.
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šlo za kremo za sončenje.
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I was like a glazedglazirana doughnutkrof
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Večino leta
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for mostnajbolj of the yearleto.
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sem bil kot glaziran krof.
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There was the washingpranje of handsroke.
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Treba si je bilo umivati roke.
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I had to do that properlypravilno.
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In to pravilno.
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And my immunologistimunolog told me
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Moj imunolog mi je naročil,
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that I should alsotudi wipeobrišite down
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naj obrišem tudi
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all of the remoteoddaljeni controlskontrole and iPhonesiPhones in my househiša,
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vse daljince in iPhone v hiši,
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because those are just orgiesorgije of germsklic.
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saj so to orgije mikrobov.
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So that tookvzel a lot of time.
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To je vzelo veliko časa.
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I alsotudi triedposkušal to be the safestnajvarnejši personoseba I could be,
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Skušal sem biti tudi najvarnejša možna oseba,
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because that's a partdel of healthzdravje.
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saj je to del zdravja.
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I was inspirednavdihnjen
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by the Danishdanščina SafetyVarnost CouncilSvet.
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Danski svet za zdravje.
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They startedzačel a publicjavnost campaignkampanja
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Začeli so z javno kampanjo,
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that sayspravi, "A walkinghoditi helmetčelada is a good helmetčelada."
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ki pravi: "Hodeča čelada je dobra čelada."
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So they believe you should not just wearobrabo helmetsčelade for bikingkolesarjenje,
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Verjamejo, da bi morali nositi čelado ne samo med kolesarjenjem,
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but alsotudi for walkinghoditi 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 shoppingnakupovanje with theirnjihovi helmetsčelade.
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da nakupujejo s čeladami.
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Well yeah, I triedposkušal that.
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Ja, poskusil sem.
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Now it's a little extremeekstremno, I admitpriznati.
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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 actuallydejansko -- the "FreakonomicsFreakonomics" authorsavtorjev wrotenapisal about this --
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to je v bistvu -- in avtorji Freakonomike so pisali o tem --
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that more people dieumreti on a perna milemilje basisosnove
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več ljudi, merjeno na miljo,
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from drunkpijan walkinghoditi
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umre med hojo v stanju opitosti
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than from drunkpijan drivingvožnja.
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kot med vožnjo v opitem stanju.
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So something to think about tonightnocoj
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Nekaj, o čemer velja razmisliti,
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if you've had a couplepar.
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če boste nocoj spili kozarec ali dva.
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So I finishedkončal,
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Končal sem torej,
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and it was a successuspeh in a sensesmisel.
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in v nekem smislu uspešno.
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All of the markersoznačevalci wentšla in the right directionsmer.
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Vsi znaki so kazali v pravo smer.
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My cholesterolholesterola wentšla down, I lostizgubljen weighttežo,
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Moj holesterol se je znižal, shujšal sem,
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my wifežena stoppedustavil tellingpovedal me that I lookedpogledal pregnantnoseča.
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moja žena mi je nehala govoriti, da izgledam kot nosečnica.
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So that was nicelepo.
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To je bilo lepo.
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And it was successfuluspešno overallsplošno.
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In v splošnem je bilo uspešno.
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But I alsotudi learnednaučili that I was too healthyzdravo,
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Ampak spoznal sem tudi, da sem bil preveč zdrav
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and that was unhealthynezdravo.
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in da to ni bilo zdravo.
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I was so focusedosredotočen on doing all these things
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Tako sem bil osredotočen na vse te stvari,
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that I was neglectingzanemarjanje my friendsprijatelji and familydružina.
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da sem zapostavil prijatelje in družino.
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And as DanDan BuettnerBuettner can tell you,
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Kot vam lahko pove Dan Buettner,
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havingimeti a strongmočno socialsocialno networkomrežje
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je močno socialno omrežje
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is so crucialključnega pomena to our healthzdravje.
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bistveno za zdravje.
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So I finishedkončal.
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Zato sem nehal.
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And I kindvrste of wentšla overboardčez krov
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In teden po končanem projektu
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on the weekteden after the projectprojekt was over.
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sem nekako pretiraval.
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I wentšla to the darktemno sidestran,
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Šel sem na temno stran
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and I just indulgedrazvajali myselfjaz.
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in enostavno užival.
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It was like something out of CaligulaCaligula.
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Bilo je kot nekaj iz Kaligule.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
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WithoutBrez the sexseks partdel.
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Brez dela o seksu.
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Because I have threetri youngmladi kidsotroci,
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Kajti imam tri majhne otroke,
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so that wasn'tni bilo happeningdogaja.
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zato se to ni dogajalo.
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But the over-eatingOver-prehranjevanja and over-drinkingprekomerno pitje, definitelydefinitivno.
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Prenajedanje in pretirano pitje pa definitivno.
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And I finallykončno have stabilizedstabilizira.
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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 adoptingsprejetje manyveliko -- not all; I don't wearobrabo a helmetčelada anymoreveč --
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živim po mnogih -- ne vseh, čelade ne nosim več --
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but dozensdesetine of healthyzdravo behaviorsvedenja
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ampak na ducate zdravih pristopov,
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that I adoptedsprejeta duringmed my yearleto.
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po katerih sem živel v tem letu.
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It was really a life-changingspremenijo življenje projectprojekt.
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Projekt mi je res spremenil življenje.
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And I, of courseseveda, 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 quicklyhitro.
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Naj vam na hitro povem samo dve.
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The first is -- and this was surprisingpresenetljivo to me;
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Prva -- in to me je presenetilo,
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I didn't expectpričakovati this to come out --
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nisem pričakoval tega rezultata --
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but I livev živo a much quietertišji life now.
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ampak zdaj živim veliko bolj tiho.
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Because we livev živo in suchtako a noisyhrupno worldsvet.
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Kajti živimo v tako hrupnem svetu.
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There's trainsvlaki and planesletala and carsavtomobili
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Vlaki in letala in avtomobili
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and BillBill O'ReillyO'Reilly, he's very noisyhrupno.
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in Bill O'Reilly, on je zelo glasen.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
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And this is a realresnično underestimatedpodcenjevati, under-appreciatedpremalo cenjeno healthzdravje hazardnevarnost --
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To je res podcenjena in neupoštevana grožnja za zdravje --
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not just because it harmsškoduje our hearingsluh, whichki it obviouslyočitno does,
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ne samo zato, ker škoduje sluhu, kar je seveda res,
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but it actuallydejansko initiatessproži
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ampak ker dejansko sproža
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the fight-or-flightboj-ali-letom responseodziv.
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reakcijo boj-ali-beg.
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A loudglasno noisehrup will get your fight-or-flightboj-ali-letom responseodziv going.
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Velik hrup sproži vašo reakcijo boj-ali-beg.
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And this, over the yearslet,
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In to skozi leta
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can causevzrok realresnično damageškoda, cardiovascularkardiovaskularni damageškoda.
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lahko povzroči pravo škodo, srčno-žilne težave.
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The WorldSvet HealthZdravje OrganizationOrganizacija just did a bigvelik studyštudija
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Svetovna zdravstvena organizacija je ravno
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that they publishedobjavljeno this yearleto.
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letos objavila veliko študijo.
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And it was doneKončano in EuropeEvropi.
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In naredili so jo v Evropi.
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And they estimatedocenjeno
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Ocenili so,
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that 1.6 millionmilijonov yearslet of healthyzdravo livingživeti
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da v Evropi vsako leto izgubijo
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are lostizgubljen everyvsak yearleto in EuropeEvropi
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1,6 milijona let zdravega življenja,
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because of noisehrup pollutiononesnaževanje.
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in to zaradi onesnaženja s hrupom.
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So they think it's actuallydejansko very deadlysmrtonosno.
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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 alsotudi terriblegrozno for your brainmožganov.
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je tudi strašno za možgane.
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It really impairsslabi cognitionspoznavanje.
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Res omejuje kognicijo.
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And our FoundingUstanovni FathersOčetov knewvedel about this.
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Tudi naši ustanovni očetje so to vedeli.
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When they wrotenapisal the ConstitutionUstave,
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Ko so pisali ustavo,
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they put dirtumazanija all over the cobblestonestlak outsidezunaj the halldvorana
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so po vseh kamnitih pločnikih zunaj dvorane posuli prst,
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so that they could concentrateosredotočiti.
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da bi se lahko koncentrirali.
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So withoutbrez noisehrup reductionzmanjšanje technologytehnologijo,
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Brez tehnologije omejevanja hrupa
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our countrydržava would not existobstajajo.
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naša država torej ne bi obstajala.
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So as a patriotPatriot,
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Kot patriot
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I feltčutil it was importantpomembno to --
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sem menil, da je bilo pomembno --
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I wearobrabo all the earplugsUšesni čepi and the earphonesslušalke,
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nosim čepke za ušesa in slušalke
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and it's really improvedizboljšali my life
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in to je res izboljšalo moje življenje
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in a surprisingpresenetljivo and unexpectednepričakovano way.
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na presenetljiv in nepričakovan način.
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And the seconddrugič pointtočka I want to make, the finalkončno pointtočka,
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Druga stvar, zadnja, ki bi jo rad omenil, pa je --
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is that -- and it's actuallydejansko been a themetema of TEDMEDTEDMED --
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in to je že bila tema TEDMED --
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that joyveselje is so importantpomembno to your healthzdravje,
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da je veselje tako pomembno za zdravje,
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that very fewmalo of these behaviorsvedenja
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da bo zelo malo vzorcev obnašanja
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will stickpalico with me
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ostalo v mojem življenju,
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unlessrazen there's some sensesmisel of pleasureužitek and joyveselje 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 instanceprimer of this:
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Naj vam dam samo en primer:
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foodhrano.
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hrana.
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The junkjunk foodhrano industryindustrijo
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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 pressingstiskanje our pleasureužitek buttonsgumbi
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pri zadovoljevanju naših potreb po užitku
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and figuringfiguring out what's the mostnajbolj pleasurableprijetno.
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in ugotavljanju, v čem najbolj uživamo.
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But I think we can use theirnjihovi techniquestehnike
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A mislim, da lahko njihove tehnike
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and applyveljajo them to healthyzdravo foodhrano.
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uporabimo tudi pri zdravi hrani.
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To give just one exampleprimer,
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En sam primer,
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we love crunchinesshrustljavost, mouthfeelrezanju.
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uživamo v hrustljavosti, polnosti.
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So I basicallyv bistvu have triedposkušal to incorporatevključi crunchinesshrustljavost
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Hrustljavost tako skušam vključiti
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into a lot of my recipesrecepti --
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v veliko svojih receptov --
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throwmetati in some sunflowerSončnica seedssemena.
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dodam jim malo sončničnih semen.
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And you can almostskoraj tricktrik yourselfsami
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Skoraj se lahko prepričam,
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into thinkingrazmišljanje you're eatingjedo DoritosDoritos.
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da jem čips.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
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And it has madeizdelane me a healthierzdravo personoseba.
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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 bookknjigo about it comesprihaja out in AprilAprila.
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Knjiga izide aprila.
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It's calledpozval "DropPadec DeadMrtvih HealthyZdravo."
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Imenuje se "Crkni zdrav."
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And I hopeupanje that I don't get sickbolan duringmed the bookknjigo tourturnejo.
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Upam, da med turnejo ne bom zbolel.
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That's my greatestnajvečji hopeupanje.
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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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(ApplauseAplavz)
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(Aplavz)
Translated by Klavdija Cernilogar
Reviewed by Tilen Pigac - EFZG

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
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.

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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