The World Health Organization just did a big study that they published this year. 世界卫生组织做了一个大型研究,并于今年出版。 And it was done in Europe. 研究在欧洲进行。 And they estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living
I've spent the last decade subjecting myself to pain and humiliation, hopefully for a good cause, which is self-improvement. 过去的10年时间,我一直处于悲伤和羞辱中,期待着有一个好的理由改变自己,这个理由就是自我提高。 And I've done this in three
So this might be a good moment to take a quick time-out to answer a few FAQs about ocean rowing that might be going through your mind. 现在也许正好可以利用一点时间来进行关于大洋横渡的一些问题的解答,当然,这些问题有可能就是你们想问的。 Number one tha
And I remember looking at these two versions of my obituary and thinking, "Oh boy, I'm on totally the wrong track here. 我记得我面对着我的这两份讣告,心想:“哦,天呐,我处在错误的人生轨道上, If I carry on living as I am now, I'm just
But, as I was approaching the end of my water reserves, luckily, our courses were converging. 但是正当我储备的水接近枯竭时,我们幸运地碰到了一起。 They were running out of food; I was running out of water. 他们没有了食物,我没有了水。 So we
We were asked to design an identity for Casa da Musica, the Rem Koolhaas-built music center in Porto, in Portugal. 音乐之家曾请我们设计标志,就是那个由Rem Koolhaas设计建造的音乐中心,在葡萄牙的波尔图。 And even though I desired to do an
In the beginning, on the first sabbatical, it was rather disastrous. 我的第一个休假初期,事情进展一点也不顺利。 I had thought that I should do this without any plan, 我以为不用计划, that this vacuum of time somehow would be wond
And the second point I want to make, the final point, is that -- and it's actually been a theme of TEDMED 我想说的第二点,也是最后一点,实际上就是TEDMED的主题-- that joy is so important to your health, that very few of thes
Hi, my name is Roz Savage and I row across oceans. 大家好,我是罗兹·萨维奇,我划船穿越大洋。 Four years ago, I rowed solo across the Atlantic, and since then, 四年前,我曾独自划船横渡了大西洋,之后, I've done two out of three stages across
So it will always fit together, conceptually, of course. 所以在概念的层面而言,它们一定能互相配合。 If Zappa's music is performed, it gets its own logo. 如果演出Zappa的音乐,它会有自己独特的标志。 Or Philip Glass or Lou Reed or the Chemical
So, how do you top rowing across the Atlantic? 你怎么才能超越横渡大西洋? Well, naturally, you decide to row across the Pacific. 很自然,你会决定横渡太平洋。 Well, I thought the Atlantic was big, but the Pacific is really, real
Then there is a coffee table. I also did a coffee table. It's called Be Here Now. It includes 330 compasses. 我还设计了这张茶几,起名叫“现在到此”。它里面装了330个指南针。 And we had custom espresso cups made that hide a magnet i
And the idea of course was to make the type so precious that as an audience you would be in between 我们的构思,是把图样做得很精美,要令观赏者觉得难以决定, "Should I really take as much money as I can? Or should I leave the pie
But what do you do? Fall down nine times, get up 10. 能怎么样呢?只有屡败屡战。 So, the following year, I set out and, fortunately, this time made it safely across to Hawaii. 第二年,我重新出发,我这次比较走运,安全地划渡到达了夏威夷。 But it
I had a meeting with the president there, who told me about his exit strategy for his country. 我在那与该国的总统会面,总统也向我透露了他为国家制定的生存战略。 He expects that within the next 50 years, the 100,000 people that live t
And the oars kind of became a symbol of just in how many ways I went beyond what I thought were my limits. 这些桨也变成了我可以用多种方式来突破我自认为是极限的标志。 I suffered from tendinitis on my shoulders and saltwater sores
Now, some of you might be thinking, "Hold on a minute. 在座的有些人现在一定可能在想,“得了吧。 She doesn't look very much like an ocean rower. 她长得一点也不像个横渡大洋者。 Isn't she meant to be about this tall and about this wide an
If I look at my cycle, seven years, one year sabbatical, it's 12.5 percent of my time. 看看我的周期,干七年,休一年,是我百分之12.5的时间。 And if I look at companies that are actually more successful than mine, 看看比我更成功的公司,
I also tried to be the safest person I could be, because that's a part of health. 我还尽我所能做个最安全的人,因为这也是健康的一部分。 I was inspired by the Danish Safety Council. 我受到丹麦安全委员会的启发。 They started a public campaign
I think there are probably three key points here. 我认为有三个关键问题。 The first one is about the stories that we tell ourselves. 第一个关键是我们对自己的认识。 For so long, I told myself that I couldn't have an adventure be