Daniel Levitin: How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed
Danijel Levitin (Daniel Levitin): Kako da ostanete smireni kada znate da ćete biti pod stresom
Daniel Levitin incorporates findings from neuroscience into everyday life. Full bio
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I broke into my own house.
provalio sam u sopstvenu kuću.
in the dead of Montreal winter,
usred montrealske zime,
Jeff, across town,
na drugom kraju grada
read minus 40 degrees --
je pokazivao minus 40 stepeni -
if that's Celsius or Fahrenheit,
o stepenima Celzijusa ili Farenhajta
fumbling in my pockets,
i preturao po džepovima,
through the window,
where I had left them.
gde sam ih i ostavio.
and tried all the other doors and windows,
da otvorim druga vrata i prozore,
at least I had my cellphone,
makar sam imao mobilni,
for a locksmith to show up,
dok bravar stigne,
Jeff's house for the night
da prespavam kod Džefa
to Europe the next morning,
trebalo da letim za Evropu,
my passport and my suitcase.
through the basement window,
i provalio kroz prozor na podrumu,
and taped it up over the opening,
i zalepio ga preko otvora,
on the way to the airport,
na putu do aerodroma,
and ask him to fix it.
i zamoliti ga da to popravi.
than a middle-of-the-night locksmith,
nego da bravar dolazi usred noći,
I was coming out even.
na okolnosti, da sam na istom.
about how the brain performs under stress.
kako mozak funkcioniše pod stresom.
that raises your heart rate,
koji ubrzava otkucaje srca,
nakon premalo sna,
that I had to call my contractor,
da moram da zovem majstora,
the cortisol in my brain,
because my thinking was cloudy.
jer nisam jasno razmišljao.
to the airport check-in counter,
za čekiranje na aerodromu,
and ice, 40 minutes,
odjurio kući po snegu i ledu,
raced back to the airport,
my seat to someone else,
next to the bathrooms,
pored kupatila,
on an eight-hour flight.
na letu od osam sati.
during those eight hours and no sleep.
imao sam dosta vremena za razmišljanje.
are there things that I can do,
postoji li nešto što mogu da uradim,
from happening?
da se loše stvari dešavaju?
of it being a total catastrophe.
da dođe do potpune katastrofe.
until about a month later.
tek oko mesec dana kasnije.
Danny Kahneman, the Nobel Prize winner,
Nobelovcem Denijem Kanemanom
about having broken my window,
kako sam razbio prozor
something called prospective hindsight.
buduće osvrtanje.
from the psychologist Gary Klein,
od psihologa Gerija Klajna,
a few years before,
nekoliko godina ranije,
to figure out what went wrong, right?
da otkrije šta je pošlo naopako.
all the things that could go wrong,
da vidite šta bi sve moglo poći naopako
what you can do
or to minimize the damage.
ili smanjili štetu.
in the form of a pre-mortem.
koje možemo da primenimo.
some of them are not so obvious.
neke nisu toliko očigledne.
for things that are easily lost.
za stvari koje se lako zagube.
like common sense, and it is,
to back this up,
na dosta naučnih činjenica,
prostorna memorija.
called the hippocampus,
koja se zove hipokampus,
of thousands of years,
tokom desetina hiljada godina,
of important things --
bitnih stvari -
where fish can be found,
i neprijateljska plemena.
becomes enlarged.
that allows squirrels to find their nuts.
veverice pronalaze svoje lešnike.
somebody actually did the experiment
neko je zaista izveo eksperiment
the olfactory sense of the squirrels,
they were using the hippocampus,
koristile su hipokampus,
in the brain for finding things.
za nalaženje stvari.
that don't move around much,
sa stvarima koje uglavnom miruju,
and reading glasses and passports.
i naočare za čitanje i pasoše.
designate a spot for your keys --
maybe a decorative bowl.
a particular table.
and you're scrupulous about it,
i pridržavate se toga,
when you look for them.
kad god ih budete tražili.
of your credit cards,
da vam bude dostupno.
you can facilitate replacement.
biće lakše da izvadite nove.
the brain releases cortisol.
mozak oslobađa kortizol.
and it causes cloudy thinking.
you're not going to be at your best,
kad ste pod stresom
no more stressful a situation
with a medical decision to make.
sa donošenjem medicinske odluke.
are going to be in that position,
biti u tom položaju,
a very important decision
veoma važnu odluku
or that of a loved one,
ili lečenju voljene osobe,
a very particular medical condition.
medicinskom problemu.
of medical decision-making,
medicinskog odlučivanja,
and social decision-making --
kao i društvene odluke -
assessment of the facts.
racionalna procena činjenica.
and the doctor says,
i on kaže:
your cholesterol's a little high."
i holesterol vam je malo povišen."
of cardiovascular disease,
od kardiovaskularnih bolesti,
isn't the best thing,
imati povišen holesterol,
"You know, I'd like to give you a drug
"Znate, hteo bih da vam prepišem lek
lower your cholesterol, a statin."
snizi holesterol, statin."
the most widely prescribed drugs
prepisivanim lekovima
people who take them.
ljude koji ih piju.
"Yeah! Give me the statin."
"Da! Dajte mi taj statin."
you should ask at this point,
treba da postavite,
don't like talking about,
like talking about even less.
that need to take a drug
or any medical procedure
ili nekoj medicinskoj proceduri
what kind of crazy statistic is that?
kakva je to suluda statistika?
something to me
doesn't work that way.
ne funkcioniše tako.
it's the fault of scientists like me.
onda su to naučnici poput mene.
the underlying mechanisms well enough.
o mehanizmima koji leže u osnovi.
procenjuje
in only 30 to 50 percent of the people.
na samo 30 do 50 procenata ljudi.
for the most widely prescribed statin,
za statin koji se najčešće prepisuje,
before one person is helped?
pre nego što pomogne jednom?
Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband,
Džerom Grupmen i Pamela Harcbend,
take the drug for a year
godinu dana
or other adverse event is prevented.
ili drugi zdravstveni problem.
of lowering my cholesterol.
da snizim holesterol je 1 prema 300.
the prescription anyway."
Ipak mi dajte recept."
for another statistic,
za još jedan statistički podatak,
about the side effects." Right?
Zar ne?
in five percent of the patients.
kod pet posto pacijenata.
gastrointestinal distress --
gastrointestinalne tegobe -
it's going to happen to me,
you're not thinking clearly.
ne razmišljate jasno.
to work through this ahead of time,
kako ćete ovo rešiti,
the chain of reasoning on the spot.
morali da osmislite lanac zaključaka.
One person's helped,
Jednoj pomogne,
have side effects,
oseća neželjena dejstva,
to be harmed by the drug
je 15 puta veća
should take the statin or not.
da uzmete statin ili ne.
this conversation with your doctor.
o ovome sa svojim lekarom.
of informed consent.
o informisanoj saglasnosti.
to this kind of information
ovakvim informacijama
you want to take the risks or not.
želite li da prihvatite rizike ili ne.
out of the air for shock value,
da bih vas zapanjio,
this number needed to treat.
zapravo prilično uobičajen.
on men over the age of 50,
starijim od 50 godina,
for every one person who's helped.
da bi se izlečila jedna osoba.
occur in 50 percent of the patients.
javljaju kod 50 posto pacijenata.
erectile dysfunction,
erektilna disfunkcija,
of the 50 percent who has these,
50 posto kojima se ovo dogodi,
is to think ahead of time
da mislite unapred
that you might be able to ask
all of this on the spot.
na licu mesta.
about things like quality of life.
o pitanjima poput kvaliteta života.
that's pain-free,
a great deal of pain towards the end?
možda biti izuzetno bolan?
and think about now,
in the heat of the moment,
u žaru trenutka,
with this kind of thinking.
da razmišljate na ovaj način.
releases cortisol,
kada je pod stresom
that happens at that moment
you don't need your digestive system,
ne treba vam sistem za varenje,
metabolism on those things
na sve to
and then none of those things matter.
a onda ništa od svega toga nije bitno.
during those times of stress
tokom tih stresnih trenutaka
and his colleagues have shown.
i njegove kolege.
to think ahead
da mislimo unapred
is recognizing that all of us are flawed.
da shvatimo da svi mi imamo mane.
to what those failures might be,
koje bismo greške mogli napraviti,
that will help minimize the damage,
koji će pomoći da se umanji šteta,
from happening in the first place.
uopšte dogode.
snowy night in Montreal,
snežnu noć u Montrealu,
a combination lock next to the door,
bravu sa šifrom pored vrata,
an easy to remember combination.
sa kombinacijom koja se lako pamti.
that haven't been sorted,
koju nisam sredio
that I haven't gone through.
as a gradual process,
kao postepeni proces
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Daniel Levitin - NeuroscientistDaniel Levitin incorporates findings from neuroscience into everyday life.
Why you should listen
Dr. Daniel Levitin is a neuroscientist at McGill University in Montreal, dean at Minerva Schools in San Francisco and a musician. His research focuses on pattern processing in the brain.
His three books This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, and the recent The Organized Mind are all bestsellers. A polymath at heart, he has performed with top musicians and holds a few gold and platinum records.
Levitin earned his B.A. in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science at Stanford University, and went on to earn his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Oregon, researching complex auditory patterns and pattern processing in expert and non-expert populations. He completed post-doctoral training at Stanford University Medical School (in Neuroimaging) and at UC Berkeley (in Cognitive Psychology). He has consulted on audio sound source separation for the U.S. Navy, and on audio quality for several rock bands and record labels (including the Grateful Dead and Steely Dan), and served as one of the “Golden Ears” expert listeners in the original Dolby AC3 compression tests. He worked for two years at the Silicon Valley think tank Interval Research Corporation.
He taught at Stanford University in the Department of Computer Science, the Program in Human-Computer Interaction, and the Departments of Psychology, Anthropology, Computer Music, and History of Science.
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