More than cars or the Internet or even that little mobile device we keep talking about.

其危險更甚於汽車或網路，或者甚至於我們不斷談到的那個小小行動裝置。

The technology you're using the most almost every day is this: your tush.

你每天幾乎都最常使用的科技，就是這個，你的臀部。

Nowadays, people are sitting 9.3 hours a day, which is more than we're sleeping, at 7.7 hours.

現在人們每天坐著的時間是 9.3 小時，比睡眠時間 7.7 小時還要多。

Sitting is so incredibly prevalent we don't even question how much we're doing it, and because everyone else is doing it, it doesn't even occur to us that it's not okay.

「坐」是極度普遍的，我們甚至不曾質疑我們多麼經常是坐著的，而且因為每個人都這樣做，我們甚至不曾想過這樣是不健康的。

In that way, sitting has become the smoking of our generation.

這樣看來，「坐」似乎已經成為我們這個世代的吸菸。

And of course there's health consequences to this; scary ones, besides the waist.

這當然對健康會產生影響，這些可怕的負面影響，除了對腰部。

Things like breast cancer and colon cancer are directly tied to our lack of physical inactivity⏤ten percent, in fact, on both of those.

也包括乳癌、大腸癌等疾病，這些都與我們缺乏身體活動息息相關，兩者罹患率實際上高達10%。

Six percent for heart disease, seven percent for Type 2 diabetes⏤which is what my father died of.

罹患心臟病的機率為 6%，第二型糖尿病為 7%，這正是我父親的死因。

Now, any of those stats should convince each of us to get off our duff more, but if you're anything like me, it won't.

現在，那些統計數據應該足以成功說服你我要多起身走動，但是如果你們像我一樣，就辦不到了。

What did get me moving was a social interaction.

社交活動能驅使我到處走動。

Someone invited me to a meeting, but couldn't manage to fit me in to a regular, sort of, conference room meeting, and said, "I have to walk my dogs tomorrow. Could you come then?"

有人邀請我參加一場會議，但無法安排我參與常規的室內會議，然後他說：「我明天得遛狗，到時妳能來嗎？」

It seemed kind of odd to do.

這似乎有點怪，事實上，我記得當初第一次會議時我想著：「我要成為下一個問題的發問者」，因為我知道談話進行時，我一定會氣喘吁吁。

And actually, that first meeting, I remember thinking, "I have to be the one to ask the next question," because I knew I was gonna huff and puff during this conversation.

然而，我借用這種想法，讓它成了我的點子。

And yet, I've taken that idea and made it my own.

因此我不會邊喝咖啡邊進行會議，也不會坐在日光燈照明下的會議室進行會議，我會邀請他人進行「步行會議」，而每周步行距離長達20至30英哩。

So, instead of going to coffee meetings or fluorescent-lit conference room meetings, I ask people to go on a walking meeting to the tune of 20 to 30 miles a week.

就這樣改變了我的生活。

It's changed my life.

但在此之前實際情況是，我曾經認為你可以照顧好健康，也可以盡忠職守，但常常兩者無法兼顧。

But before that, what actually happened was, I used to think about it as: You could take care of your health or you could take care of obligations, and one always came at the cost of the other.

因此，在歷經數百次步行會議後，我學到了幾件事。

So, now, several hundred of these walking meetings later, I've learned a few things.

首先，跳脫既有框架去做你不曾嘗試的事，是件多麼了不起的事，又能激發出創新思維。

First, there's this amazing thing about actually getting out of the box that leads to out-of-the-box thinking.

不管是能夠親近大自然還是運動本身， 這確實有助於改善身體狀況。

Whether it's nature or the exercise itself, it certainly works.

其次，或許這更會讓人深思，關於我們每一位多能承受意見相左時的問題，當這些人原本並不是這樣的。

And second, and probably the more reflective one, is just about how much each of us can hold problems in opposition when they're really not that way.

如果我們打算解決問題，並以截然不同的眼光看待世事，無論是看待管理、商業環境問題，或是創造就業機會等等。

And if we're gonna solve problems and look at the world really differently⏤whether it's in governance or business or environmental issues, job creation⏤

或許我們可以思考一下， 如何重新界定那些問題，使得「解決問題」與「以截然不同的眼光看待世事」同時成真。

maybe we can think about how to reframe those problems as having both things be true.

因為隨著邊走邊談這念頭的出現，使事情變得可行、可持續。

Because it was when that happened, with this walk-and-talk idea, that things became doable and sustainable and viable.

我以臀部作為這場演講的開場白，並以一句話作結束，就是邊走邊談。

So, I started this talk talking about the tush, so I'll end with the bottom line, which is: walk and talk.

身體力行。

Walk the talk.

你會對新鮮空氣能讓人產生創新的思維感到驚訝，藉由此方式，你將為生活帶來嶄新的觀點。

You'll be surprised at how fresh air drives fresh thinking, and in the way that you do, you'll bring into your life an entirely new set of ideas.

謝謝。

Thank you.

使得「解決問題」與「以截然不同的眼光看待世事」同時成真