Malcolm Gladwell: Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce
Malkolm Gladvel (Malcolm Gladwell): Izbor, sreća i sos za špagete
Detective of fads and emerging subcultures, chronicler of jobs-you-never-knew-existed, Malcolm Gladwell's work is toppling the popular understanding of bias, crime, food, marketing, race, consumers and intelligence. Full bio
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to talk about my new book,
o svojoj novoj knjizi,
and first impressions.
i prvih utisaka.
and I hope you all buy it in triplicate.
da ćete svi kupiti više primeraka.
my new book makes me happy,
iako me moja nova knjiga čini srećnim,
I would talk about someone
za sreću Amerikanaca učinio
to make Americans happy
personal hero of mine:
for reinventing spaghetti sauce.
što je promenio sos za špagete.
okrugao je,
and he has big huge glasses
exuberance and vitality,
and he loves the opera,
of medieval history.
srednjevekovne istorije.
what psychophysics is,
šta je psihofizika,
her doctorate in psychophysics.
about that relationship.
is about measuring things.
u psihofizici se mere stvari.
in measuring things.
za merenje stvari.
with his doctorate from Harvard,
in White Plains, New York.
kancelariju u Vajt Plejnsu, Njujork.
bio je Pepsi.
back in the early 70s.
thing called aspartame,
in each can of Diet Pepsi
u svaku konzervu Dijet Pepsija
straightforward question to answer,
between eight and 12 percent.
od 8 do 12 procenata.
sweetness is not sweet enough;
sweetness is too sweet.
spot between 8 and 12?"
između 8 i 12?"
you would all say, it's very simple.
rekli biste da je veoma jednostavan.
a big experimental batch of Pepsi,
količinu Pepsija
eight percent, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3,
8%, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3,
with thousands of people,
concentration, right?
je l' tako?
and he gets the data back,
i dobije rezultate,
it's not a nice bell curve.
zvonastu krivu.
in the world of testing food and such,
u isprobavanju hrane i pića,
when the data comes back a mess.
about cola's not that easy."
šta ljudi misle o koli."
somewhere along the way."
make an educated guess,"
and they go for 10 percent,
of intellectual standards.
intelektualnih standarda.
and say, "What was wrong?
of this experiment with Diet Pepsi?"
nije imao smisla?"
in a diner in White Plains,
u Vajt Plejnsu,
some work for Nescafé.
the answer came to him.
stigao mu je odgovor.
the Diet Pepsi data,
za Dijet Pepsi,
looking for the perfect Pepsis.
breakthroughs in all of food science.
u celokupnoj nauci o hrani.
around the country,
for the perfect Pepsi.
for the perfect Pepsis."
blankly and say,
nobody would hire him --
niko ga nije hteo -
and talked about it.
the world is horseradish."
we want to make the perfect pickle."
da napravite savršeni krastavac."
there are only perfect pickles."
postoje samo savršeni krastavci."
to improve your regular;
vaše obične krastavce;
kisele krastavce u tegli.
Campbell's Soup.
Kembelova supa.
is where Howard made his reputation.
je Hauard izgradio svoju reputaciju.
was struggling next to Ragù,
borio pored "Ragua",
spaghetti sauce of the 70s and 80s.
sedamdesetih i osamdesetih.
know whether you care about this,
da li vas ovo zanima,
-- this is an aside --
ovo je digresija -
is much better;
je mnogo bolji;
in a much more pleasing way.
the famous bowl test
sa "Raguom" i sa "Pregom".
and you would pour it on, right?
je l' tako?
and the Prego would sit on top.
a "Prego" bi ostao na vrhu.
that they were far superior in adherence,
da je bio superiorniji u lepljivosti,
and they said, fix us.
"Popravi nas".
at their product line, and he said,
njihovu proizvodnu liniju i rekao:
with the Campbell's soup kitchen,
of spaghetti sauce.
to every conceivable way
sos od paradajza:
by tartness, by sourness,
gorčini, kiselosti,
in the spaghetti sauce business.
sa tržišta sosova za špagete.
you can vary spaghetti sauce,
na koji možete varirati sos za špagete,
of 45 spaghetti sauces,
by the truckload into big halls.
u ogromne hale.
he gave them ten bowls.
dao im je deset činija.
sauce on each one.
they had to rate, from 0 to 100,
morali su da ocene od 0 do 100,
the spaghetti sauce was.
sos bio dobar.
after doing it for months and months,
posle meseci i meseci isprobavanja,
feel about spaghetti sauce.
o sosu za špagete.
variety of spaghetti sauce?
najpopularniju varijantu sosa?
that there is such a thing.
da tako nešto postoji.
at the data, and he said,
different data points into clusters.
u klastere.
around certain ideas.
oko nekih određenih ideja.
on spaghetti sauce,
o sosu za špagete,
fall into one of three groups.
mogu svrstati u jednu od tri grupe.
who like their spaghetti sauce plain;
who like their spaghetti sauce spicy;
who like it extra chunky.
the third one was the most significant,
treća je bila najznačajnija,
extra-chunky spaghetti sauce.
veoma gust sos za špagete.
that one third of Americans
their spaghetti sauce,
svog sosa za špagete,
that immediately and completely
koji je odmah i potpuno
business in this country.
u ovoj zemlji.
they made 600 million dollars
zaradili su 600 miliona dolara
at Howard had done, and they said,
šta je Hauard uradio i rekli:
thinking all wrong!"
seven different kinds of vinegar,
7 različitih vrsta sirćeta,
and 71 different kinds of olive oil.
71 vrstu maslinovog ulja.
even Ragù hired Howard,
zaposlio Hauarda,
for Ragù that he did for Prego.
što je uradio za "Prego".
to a really good supermarket,
to the American people.
changed the way the food industry thinks
na koji prehrambena industrija razmišlja
in the food industry used to be
u prehrambenoj industriji
what people want to eat,
šta ljudi žele da jedu,
is to ask them.
treba da ih pitate.
fokus grupe,
and they would say,
in a spaghetti sauce."
deep in their hearts, actually did.
to želela.
what the tongue wants."
our own desires and tastes
explain what we want, deep down.
da objasnimo šta želimo, duboko u sebi.
in this room, what you want in a coffee,
u ovoj prostoriji, kakvu kafu želite,
"I want a dark, rich, hearty roast."
"Želim crnu, bogatu, jaku."
when you ask them.
"Dark, rich, hearty roast!"
"Crnu, bogatu, jaku!"
like a dark, rich, hearty roast?
between 25 and 27 percent of you.
to someone who asks you what you want
nikada nećete reći:
that Howard did.
koju je Haurd uradio.
is he made us realize --
"horizontal segmentation."
"horizontalno segmentiranje".
thought before Howard.
razmišljala pre Hauarda.
in the early 80s?
with the story of Grey Poupon.
pričom o "Sivom puponu".
French's and Gulden's.
"Frenčov" i "Guldenov".
Žuti senfovi.
turmeric, and paprika.
i aleva paprika.
some white wine, a nose hit,
malo belog vina, sjajan miris,
with a wonderful enameled label on it,
sa lepom etiketom,
in Oxnard, California.
u Kaliforniji.
for the eight-ounce bottle,
za teglu od 500 grama,
eating the Grey Poupon.
koji jede "Sivi pupon".
"Do you have any Grey Poupon?"
"Imate li "Sivog pupona"?"
Grey Poupon takes off!
"Sivi pupon" se vinuo u nebesa!
that is more expensive,
on what they think they like now,
što misle da vole sada
higher up the mustard hierarchy.
u hijerarhiji senfa.
A more expensive mustard!
and culture and meaning.
sa više kulture i smisla.
and said, "That's wrong!"
"To je pogrešno!"
on a horizontal plane.
postoji na horizontalnoj ravni.
or imperfect mustard.
that suit different kinds of people.
koje odgovaraju različitim ljudima.
the way we think about taste.
način na koji razmišljamo o ukusu.
Howard Moskowitz a huge vote of thanks.
Hauardu Moskovicu veliku zahvalnost.
and perhaps the most important,
koju je Hauard uradio,
of the Platonic dish.
platonskog jela.
with roasted pumpkin seeds
sa prženim semenom bundeve
on the reduction.
the extra-chunky reduction, or ...?"
about red-tail sashimi.
time and time again,
in this restaurant."
u ovom restoranu."
the commercial food industry as well.
i komercijalnu prehrambenu industriju.
of what tomato sauce was.
It came from Italy.
Iz Italije.
tomato sauce" in the 1970s,
razgovarali o "autentičnom paradajz sosu",
je l' tako?
of the pasta.
that what it took to make people happy
da bismo usrećili ljude,
culturally authentic tomato sauce, A.
paradajz sos.
the culturally authentic tomato sauce,
taj kulturno najautentičniji sos,
the maximum number of people.
were looking for cooking universals.
su tražili nešto univerzalno.
to treat all of us.
to be obsessed
and much of the 20th,
economists
in finding out the rules
da pronađu pravila
in science of the last 10, 15 years?
poslednjih 10, 15 godina?
from the search for universals
we don't want to know, necessarily,
is different from my cancer.
razlikuje od mog.
from your cancer.
to the study of human variability.
ljudskih različitosti.
was doing was saying,
in the world of tomato sauce."
i u svetu paradajz sosa."
a great vote of thanks.
illustration of variability,
ilustraciju različitosti,
but he took it a second step,
nego je otišao korak dalje,
universal principles in food,
univerzalne principe u hrani,
a massive disservice.
a lot of work with, with Nescafé.
and come up with a brand of coffee --
da smislite marku kafe -
that made all of you happy,
koja vas sve čini zadovoljnim,
would be about 60 on a scale of 0 to 100.
bila bi 60 na skali od 0 do 100.
to break you into coffee clusters,
da vas podelim u grupe kafe,
for each of those individual clusters,
za svaku od tih grupa,
sa 60 na 75 ili 78.
at 60 and coffee at 78
that makes you wince,
od koje pravite grimasu
deliriously happy.
most beautiful lesson,
i najlepša lekcija
of human beings,
to true happiness.
do istinske sreće.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Malcolm Gladwell - WriterDetective of fads and emerging subcultures, chronicler of jobs-you-never-knew-existed, Malcolm Gladwell's work is toppling the popular understanding of bias, crime, food, marketing, race, consumers and intelligence.
Why you should listen
Malcolm Gladwell searches for the counterintuitive in what we all take to be the mundane: cookies, sneakers, pasta sauce. A New Yorker staff writer since 1996, he visits obscure laboratories and infomercial set kitchens as often as the hangouts of freelance cool-hunters -- a sort of pop-R&D gumshoe -- and for that has become a star lecturer and bestselling author.
Sparkling with curiosity, undaunted by difficult research (yet an eloquent, accessible writer), his work uncovers truths hidden in strange data. His always-delightful blog tackles topics from serial killers to steroids in sports, while provocative recent work in the New Yorker sheds new light on the Flynn effect -- the decades-spanning rise in I.Q. scores.
Gladwell has written four books. The Tipping Point, which began as a New Yorker piece, applies the principles of epidemiology to crime (and sneaker sales), while Blink examines the unconscious processes that allow the mind to "thin slice" reality -- and make decisions in the blink of an eye. His third book, Outliers, questions the inevitabilities of success and identifies the relation of success to nature versus nurture. The newest work, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures, is an anthology of his New Yorker contributions.
He says: "There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess."
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